Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has announced she is to co-produce a new stage play featuring the early years of the boy wizard with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. In an annou…
Ivor Novello's last musical, Valley of Song, is to receive its professional world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in January as part of the venue's Celebrating British Music Theatre serie…
Eight times Oscar nominated and an international star on both stage and screen, Peter O'Toole was one of the most gifted and charismatic actors of his generation. Tall, blond, piercingly blu…
The future of Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre has been thrown into doubt with news that the Surrey town's borough council has proposed to reduce, and possibly end, its funding for the venu…
Police in Northern Ireland have issued an appeal for witnesses after a bomb explosion close to Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre on Friday night led to the cancellation of a performance by …
Peter O'Toole, who announced his retirement from acting in July last year, has died at the age of 81. His death in London's Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening after a long illness was r…
Michael Quinn investigates the benefits of crowdfunding websites
Encore Tickets, the UK's leading independent supplier of tickets for theatres, visitor attractions and restaurants, has been sold by current backers ISIS Equity Partners to the private equit…
Anne Barton was one of the most formidable scholars of her generation. She offered revealing new insights into the work of Byron, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, and was equally perceptive about…
A £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July. T…
After graduating from Rose Bruford College in 1964 and enjoying an active career as a director and teacher, Malcolm Morrison returned to the Kent training academy to become its head of actin…
Plans for a film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat have been confirmed by the show's composer. In an interview on BBC’s The One…
A recent European court ruling highlights how musical homage can mean walking a legal tightrope. Michael Quinn investigates
Five Broadway theatres reported new house records for income from ticket sales for performances leading up to last weekend's Thanksgiving celebrations. Great White Way veteran The Lion King …
Lewis Collins, best known as the swaggering tough-guy cop Brodie in the hit 1970s crime series The Professionals, has died at the age of 67. His death at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday…
Increased ticket sales and sponsorship helped London's Southbank Centre post a marginal 1.3% increase in income to £42.6 million in the year to the end of March, helping to compensate for…
Few people could claim to be a confidante of the obsessively private, prickly and sharp-tongued Kenneth Williams. Fewer still to have received a marriage proposal from him. Annette Kerr enjo…
Northern Ireland's culture minister Caral Ni Chuilin has announced the formation of a new company with a £2 million budget to build on the legacy of Derry-Londonderry's year as the UK's f…
Indelibly associated with the Oscar-winning song The Windmills of Your Mind, Noel Harrison had been performing the Michel Legrand-penned theme to the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair just h…
Considered by Mel Brooks to be the funniest person he'd ever met, and a member of both the early English Stage Company at the Royal Court and the inaugural National Theatre company, Barbara …
ITV Studios, the commercial broadcaster's in-house production and acquisition arm, saw revenues increase by 11% to £555 million in the nine months to September 11. Growth in ITV's online,…
The Bristol Old Vic " the UK's oldest continually working theatre " has revealed plans for a "stunning and dramatic" £12 million refurbishment of the grade I-listed venue's front of house…
The tender process for the £11 million contract to re-build Belfast's Lyric Theatre may have been "rigged and manipulated" a report by the Northern Ireland Assembly's spending watchdog ha…
As a renowned translator of contemporary German plays, the contribution of Anthony Vivis to popularising one of the most vibrant and searching strands of 20th-century theatre did much to enr…
The 2014 Adelaide Festival will include four world premieres, 29 Australian premieres and 1,000 performers from 29 countries with theatre and dance to the fore. It will be the second program…