One in five people working in entertainment has actively sought help for mental health issues, new research has found. The survey, which was open to everyone in the sector and completed by m…
Chichester Festival Theatre artistic director Jonathan Church has praised the producers of Taken at Midnight for taking a "chance" on bringing the play to the West End. He said new plays by …
Almost a half of all creative jobs are based in London or the south-east, despite the fact the areas account for just 28% of the national workforce, new research has revealed. The findings h…
Choreographer Akram Khan has picked up his sixth National Dance award, at a ceremony that also saw dancers Jonathan Goddard and Natalia Osipova win prizes. At today’s Critics’ Ci…
Elton John is launching a theatre production company that will have a strong emphasis on the creation of original musicals, including a new family show that will feature songs from his back …
West End musical Made in Dagenham is to close in April after a run of five months. The show, at the Adelphi Theatre and starring Gemma Arterton, opened on November 5 and will close on…
A tour of the musical Copacabana planned for 2015 has been completely cancelled. As previously reported by The Stage, the 2014 leg of the musical, starring Jon Lee, was cancelled partway thr…
Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts has dropped a £19 million plan to move into a grade II*-listed town hall in north London. The drama school had been working with Haringey Council to deve…
John Goodman and Tom Sturridge are to join Damian Lewis in American Buffalo in the West End. The play, by David Mamet and directed by Daniel Evans, will run at Wyndham's Theatre from April 1…
Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest, starring David Suchet as Lady Bracknell, will open at the Vaudeville Theatre in July. The production is directed by Adrian Noble and will play …
Bradley Cooper is to star in a West End transfer of The Elephant Man. The play, directed by Scott Ellis and currently running on Broadway, will open at the Theatre Royal Haymarket in London …
Musicians involved in last year's failed Copacabana tour have become the latest group to launch legal proceedings against the show's production company in a bid to reclaim money owed to them…
Kay Mellor, who penned the play A Passionate Woman and the television series Fat Friends and The Syndicate, has been honoured for her outstanding contribution to writing. She was recognised …
Stephen Mangan is to reprise his role from the 2012 Royal Court production of Joe Penhall's Birthday, in a new television version of the play. The drama will be directed by Roger Michell, wh…
Theatre Ad Infinitum will stage the London premiere of its production of Odyssey as part of the Vault festival. The theatre company's one-man show will run from February 18 to March 1 and st…
Hedda Beeby is to step down as artistic and executive director of the Watermill Theatre in Newbury after seven years. She became artistic director in 2007 will leave at the end of the year, …
Ambassador Theatre Group has appointed Birmingham Hippodrome chief executive Stuart Griffiths as its first programming director. The theatre company said the appointment was part of its cont…
Christine Baranski, Russell Watson and Ruthie Henshall are to star in a concert production of Stephen Sondheim's musical Follies. The production will be staged at the Royal Albert Hall on Ap…
Darcey Bussell has urged emerging dancers to enter as many competitions as they can, claiming they offer exposure and test a performer's desire to work in the profession. Bussell was speakin…
Former Hollyoaks actor Gerard McCarthy is to star as a fired member of the musical Cats in a staging of the one-man show Cat. The production, written by Richard Hardwick and Jamie Beamish, w…
Ann Emery, who last week announced her retirement from the musical Billy Elliot after 10 years, has revealed a bad back forced her to leave the production sooner than she would have liked. T…
Actors from last year's failed tour of the musical Copacabana are mounting legal action against the show's producers for more than £30,000 in unpaid wages. The news comes as it has emerge…
Roy Williams' Antigone is to play at the Theatre Royal Stratford East following a tour of the UK. The show is a co-production between Pilot Theatre, Derby Theatre and TRSE and will run at th…
A documentary exploring the work of dance company BalletBoyz is to feature in a year-long season of arts programming on the BBC. The Year of Song and Dance season also includes programmes lo…
Channel 4 has outlined new commissioning guidelines aimed at increasing diversity on screen, which will ensure that at least one of the lead characters in every of its scripted programmes is…