3,863 stories by "Matthew Hemley"
Writers working for the BBC will benefit from a 2% increase to their minimum fees following negotiations between the Corporation and the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. The increase m…
Red Planet Pictures " run by former EastEnders writer Tony Jordan " has named two aspiring writers as the joint winners of its annual writing competition. The Red Planet Prize has this year …
The 20th anniversary of the Royal Academy of Music's musical theatre course will be marked with a concert featuring 150 performers, including Stephen Ashfield and Fra Fee. Curtain Up will be…
More than 700 directors have so far signed up to a newly formed trade organisation launched to improve their working conditions. Stage Directors UK was launched a month ago to work for its m…
Kinks musical Sunny Afternoon has extended its booking until May next year. The show has music and lyrics by Ray Davies and a book by Joe Penhall. Directed by Edward Hall, it had been bookin…
A last-ditch attempt to stave off West End strike action is to take place next week, when union BECTU and the Society of London Theatre meet at conciliation service ACAS. The two sides will …
Michael Ball has announced a new tour for 2015. The musical theatre performer will begin his If Everyone Was Listening tour in Bournemouth on April 7, 2015, before playing in Oxford, Ipswich…
Model Jodie Kidd is to produce the world premiere of a musical about slavery next year. Yarico has music by James McConnell, lyrics by Paul Leigh and a book by Carl Miller. It will run…
Two men charged with conspiring to defraud Leeds Grand Theatre out of thousands of pounds will enter pleas in January next year, with a provisional trial date set for June. Peter Alp, 52, fr…
Jason Manford is to star in a new UK tour of musical The Producers. The show will open in March next year at the Churchill Theatre in Bromley, before touring to venues including the Milton&#…
A "living archive" featuring stories and photos from people connected with the reopening of Theatre Royal Bury St Edmunds 50 years ago is to be created with a £65,200 grant from the Herit…
Moira Sinclair, currently Arts Council England's executive director of London and the south-east, is leaving the organisation after nine years to lead grant-making body the Paul Hamlyn Found…
Penelope Wilton will return to the West End stage for the first time in five years when she appears in the London transfer of Taken at Midnight. The play, by Mark Hayhurst, is currently runn…
Equity has hit out at plans to allow child performers to start work at 7am " an hour earlier than adults "Â and has called for more clarification on aspects of the government's plans to&#…
Coronation Street actor Wendi Peters has been cast in the UK tour of Oh What a Lovely War!. Directed by Terry Johnson, the show originally played at Theatre Royal Stratford East earlier this…
Union Equity is maintaining that four actors involved in a profit share production in 2012 should be paid the minimum wage, stating that it will make "fresh representations" to an employment…
West End theatres are being given 10 days to avoid strike action, following a ballot which saw BECTU members vote to reject a current pay offer. BECTU has been in talks with the Society of&#…
Two men have been charged with conspiring to defraud the financially troubled Leeds Grand Theatre out of more than £178,000. Peter Alp, 54 from Kent, and Dean Oates, 45, from York, will a…
York Theatre Royal has cancelled its forthcoming production of Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge to provide more time for a planned major refurbishment. The venue is scheduled to close …
The West End production of The Play That Goes Wrong has extended its run to September next year. It is running at the Duchess Theatre, where it had originally been booking until February, an…
Comedy Potted Sherlock is to play at the Vaudeville Theatre from December. The show is written by Daniel Clarkson and Tom Clarkson, and stars Daniel Clarkson with Jefferson Turner and Lizzie…
A director ordered by a tribunal to pay four actors the minimum wage for their performances in a profit share production has won an appeal against the decision. The Employment Appeal Tribuna…
Alexandra Burke is to star in the UK tour of The Bodyguard. Burke will play Rachel Marron, a role she previously played in the West End version. The tour begins at the Mayflower Theatre in&#…
Laura Pitt-Pulford and Michael French are to lead the cast of The Sound of Music at Leicester's Curve. The show, which will mark Paul Kerryson's last as artistic director at the venue, will …
Liverpool's Everyman Theatre has won the Royal Institute of British Architects Stirling Prize. The prize is considered the UK's most prestigious architecture award, and the Everyman " design…
