Arthur Miller's The Hook will receive its world premiere as part of the Royal and Derngate's new season, which also includes productions of The Snow Queen and Gaslight. Miller's The Hook, se…
Maureen Chadwick, the creator of TV series Waterloo Road and Footballers' Wives, has penned a new musical called Crush, which will premiere at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. The show, set…
Zoe Wanamaker is to reprise her role as poet Stevie Smith in Hugh Whitemore's play Stevie, which runs at the Hampstead Theatre next year. Stevie originally ran at Chichester Festival Theatre…
Prolific US film and theatre director Mike Nichols, who was behind the original West End production of Spamalot, has died at the age 83. He was one of the few individuals to receive Oscar, E…
Richard Eyre will direct Ian McKellen and Anthony Hopkins in BBC2 drama The Dresser, which is co-produced by Sonia Friedman Productions. Eyre has adapted Ronald Harwood's play of the same na…
A company that ran London's Arts Theatre between 2008 and 2010 has been formally placed into liquidation, revealing debts of around £180,000 to producers and businesses. Brasrat Ltd held …
Pauline Quirke has signed a deal with Virgin Holidays under which the actor's performing arts academy will provide free classes to holiday-makers in Barbados. The Pauline Quirke Academy of P…
Scarborough's Stephen Joseph Theatre is to undergo a redevelopment that will see prop and wardrobe facilities moved on-site, while also enabling it to increase its community work and partner…
Wayne McGregor is choreographing a new ballet based on the book Tree of Codes for next year's Manchester International Festival. The ballet is one of three new pieces of work that have been …
Ian McKellen, Rob Brydon and Maxine Peake have made the longlist of nominees for the BBC Audio Drama Awards. McKellen and Brydon are up in the best actor section, opposite Julian Rhind-Tutt,…
The Royal Central School of Speech and Drama has been awarded £94,800 to expand a project it runs aimed at addressing issues faced by lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people. Using …
Sunny Afternoon, Here Lies Love, Dogfight and The Scottsboro boys have been shortlisted in the best musical category for this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards, which also sees nominati…
Musical Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is to tour the UK from May next year. The show, directed and choreographed by Jerry Mitchell, will open at the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham, running fr…
The Royal Shakespeare Company achieved £61.3 million of income in the last year, down from £62.6 million in 2012/13. It sold 1.7 million tickets globally, across 1,982 performances of …
Little Angel Theatre executive director Lynette Shanbury has stepped down from her post, just two months after artistic director Adam Bennett left the company. Shanbury has joined theatre co…
Motown tribute acts have been threatened with legal action by one of the world's biggest musical labels unless they change their names. Universal Music Group has given UK acts featuring the …
Louie Spence is to join Jason Manford in the UK tour of The Producers. Spence, who has previously appeared on stage in shows such as Miss Saigon and Cats, will play Carmen Ghia in the…
Gustavo Ramirez Sansano has been appointed artistic director of National Dance Company Wales, with Paul Kaynes joining as chief executive. The organisation said the appointments mark "a new …
Producers behind the troubled Copacabana tour have insisted all cast and crew will be paid what is owed to them, with dates set for 2015 to go ahead. As previously reported by The Stage, the…
Rupert Goold has hit out at directors' pay levels, claiming the profession is at risk of becoming a "middle class plaything" unless the situation is changed. The Made in Dagenham director, s…
Motown tribute acts have been threatened with legal action by one of the world's biggest music labels unless they change their names. Universal Music Group has given UK acts featuring the wo…
Stage Door, an on-demand radio series presented by West End stars including Louise Dearman and Killian Donnelly, will launch in January. The project was announced last year and was originall…
Christopher Biggins is to explore the history of the pantomime dame in a documentary for BBC Radio 2. There Is Nothing Like a Dame will be broadcast on Christmas day and will include archive…
Rebekah Gibbs, best known for playing paramedic Nina Farr in Casualty and Holby City, has died at the age of 41 following a six-year struggle with breast cancer. A seasoned musical theatre p…
Tommy Steele is to star as Glenn Miller in a new musical directed and produced by Bill Kenwright. The musical, called The Glenn Miller Story, will be choreographed by Bill Deamer. Further ca…