The Book of Mormon has taken the majority of prizes for a musical at this year's Olivier Awards. Nominated for six prizes, it received gongs in four of those categories, winning best new mus…
David Suchet has been cast as Lady Bracknell in a production of The Importance of Being Earnest in the West End this summer. The Oscar Wilde play will run from June 24 at a venue…
Membership body the Musicians' Union has labelled the National Theatre's decision to remove musicians from its West End production of War Horse as a "flagrant" breach of contract. The union …
Ghosts starring Lesley Manville is to be screened in cinemas across the UK and Ireland this June. The Almeida Theatre production, which is directed and adapted by Richard Eyre from Henrik Ib…
The National Theatre's temporary venue the Shed will remain open until 2017 after Lambeth Council approved its planning application. The local authority has confirmed the 225-seat theatre is…
English National Opera has appointed Henriette Gotz as its new executive director. She begins her role in May, joining from Vlaamse Opera in Belgium where she has worked as executive directo…
Dance industry bodies have welcomed the government's announcement that arts GCSEs and A Levels will be reformed as more rigorous qualifications, saying it will be "vital" to ensure the devel…
A theatre director has been given the right to appeal a ruling forcing him to pay five actors the national minimum wage, in a case that could have a major impact on the future of…
New Manchester venue Home " which has been formed from a merger between the city's Library Theatre and its art and film centre Cornerhouse " is to stage a site-specific programme of works ac…
Musicians are being urged to join a new busking campaign launched today by the Mayor of London. Boris Johnson announced the #BackBusking campaign to encourage support for buskers, who he fea…
Drama, dance and music GCSEs and A Levels will be reformed to create more "rigorous" qualifications that will be taught from September 2016, education secretary Michael Gove has announced. T…
Drama schools have been hit by a 3% cut to the specialist funding they receive from the government, less than many had feared. The Higher Education Funding Council for England provides insti…
Musicians from the West End production of War Horse are in dispute with the National Theatre after the organisation terminated the performers' contracts and replaced them with a pre-recor…
Stella Feehily's play This May Hurt A Bit will transfer to the St James Theatre in London next month. The Out of Joint and Octagon Theatre Bolton production will run from May 14 to June̷…
Diana Damrau and Stuart Skelton have won the best female and male singer prizes at this year's International Opera Awards. German soprano Damrau said it was a "tremendous honour" to receive …
Subsidy for arts and culture is supported by nearly 60% of the general public, representing a "significant increase" from previous years, new data from Arts Council England has found. The pr…
Jesus Christ Superstar is to embark on an arena tour of the United States this summer , starring Destiny's Child singer Michelle Williams, Brandon Boyd, from rock band Incubus, and former Se…
Alexandra Palace has unveiled designs for restoring its Victorian theatre, which will see the venue brought back into use as a performance space for the first time in around 80 years. The pl…
Jamie Lloyd's first production as part of his second season at the Trafalgar Studios in London will star Martin Freeman in the title role of Richard III. Directed by Lloyd, the production wi…
A Halifax theatre has been labelled financially unsustainable by an independent report investigating options for its future, which calls on the local council to take "urgent' action to addre…
A free exhibition of memorabilia from Darcey Bussell's career is to open at the Royal Ballet School's museum in west London this summer. It will feature photographs and costumes from Bussell…
Sadler's Wells has revealed that the Olympic park in east London is a possible site for its proposed new 500-seat theatre. Last year, the organisation announced plans to create a fourth perf…
Local authorities in England are spending on average three times less on culture than the majority of residents want invested, new research has revealed. According to the results of a new su…
The Royal Ballet is to launch a year-long training scheme for graduate dancers aimed at providing female ballerinas in particular with an "extra chance" to gain employment in the industry…
Bill Kenwright has denied that the UK's touring theatre sector is in crisis, but claims the industry is suffering a series of problems that need to be overcome. Responding to recent conce…