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A second day of planned strike action by tour guides at Shakespeare's Globe has been called off, after talks between the venue
Sky Arts has partnered with Sonia Friedman Productions to launch a £10 ticket scheme for Hamlet starring Benedict Cumberbatch. The production, directed
Bristol Old Vic artistic director Tom Morris is to helm a production of Arthur Miller's The Crucible as part of the venue's
Theatre company Perfect Pitch has launched a crowdfunding scheme aimed at enabling it to stage a minimum of two new British musicals.
Theatres around the UK face initial costs of up to £50,000 each to implement new guidelines aimed at preventing a repeat of
The Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama has been ranked as the UK's number one university for studying drama and dance.
Rachel Tucker is to headline a fundraising event at south London venue the Bridge House Theatre. Tucker, who recently starred on Broadway in
Gareth Gates and Simon Webbe are to star in the West End premiere of musical The 3 Little Pigs. Written by George
A play with music by Che Walker features in Theatre Royal Stratford East's autumn season. The season also includes the return of
English National Opera's cinema broadcast of Mike Leigh's The Pirates of Penzance has become the most lucrative opera to be screened in
Actors Cush Jumbo and Andrew Scott and directors Jamie Lloyd and Tamara Harvey are among the panellists who will choose the recipients
Cambridge Arts Theatre has appointed Ian Mather as its new chair. Mather, head of the Cambridge office of law firm Mills and
Tour guides working for Shakespeare's Globe have staged the first strike to hit a London theatre since the 1970s. The guides, all
A touring production of Jonathan Harvey's Beautiful Thing is to close two months earlier than planned. The show's executive producer, Tom O'Connell,
Bristol Old Vic Theatre School student Erin Doherty has won this year's Stephen Sondheim Society Student Performer of the Year competition. Doherty
Musical theatre accounts for more than half of all box office income despite comprising just 15% of all productions staged, a report
Richard Eyre and Jeremy Herrin are to direct world premieres at Hampstead Theatre, starring Simon Russell Beale and Roger Allam. Beale will
A 70-seat fringe theatre with a focus on new writing is to open in north London this month. Theatre N16 will be
Broadchurch actor Shaun Dooley has warned that the arts has "a dark five years" ahead of it under a Conservative government. The
Bugsy Malone at the Lyric Hammersmith has extended its run until September. The musical had been booking until August 1, but will
Director Paulette Randall has criticised the use of the term 'BAME', claiming it makes black and ethnic minority artists sound like an
Cynthia Erivo, Willemijn Verkaik and Laura Pitt-Pulford are to star in a concert featuring the songs of Jason Robert Brown. The show
With 40 boys having played the lead role and more than five million people having seen the show in the West End,
Shakespeare's Globe is to slash the cost of tours at the venue by 26% when guides begin two days of strikes later
Actor Jessica Hynes used her acceptance speech at this year's BAFTA TV Awards to criticise cuts to the arts. Collecting her award
