1,225 stories by "Nicola Merrifield"
A new 50-seat studio theatre is to open above a pub in south London next month. Based in a room over the Spread Eagle pub in Croydon, the venue will open as a professional performance...
Laurence Fox, Jack Huston and Imogen Stubbs are to appear in the stage adaptation of Strangers on a Train at the Gielgud Theatre in London later this year. Also featuring in the cast are Mir…
Jessie Buckley is to appear in the Michael Grandage Company production of Henry V alongside Jude Law, who plays the title role. Buckley, who appeared in BBC talent show I’d Do Anything…
Trevor Nunn is to direct the world premiere of Fatal Attraction at London's Theatre Royal Haymarket next spring. The play is adapted by James Dearden, who also wrote the 1987 screen play for…
Arts organisations are "not connecting with potential donors" because they are failing to explain their functions as charities to them, Arts Council England's chairman Peter Bazalgette has s…
Wycombe Swan Theatre is developing plans to refurbish its adjoining town hall to create a more flexible 400-seat performance space. HQ Theatres, which operates both buildings, is proposing t…
Brighton Hippodrome leads this year's Theatre Buildings at Risk Register, which also names hippodromes in Derby, Dudley and Manchester as the performance spaces most under threat of being lo…
Battersea Arts Centre, the Lyric Hammersmith and the Bush Theatre are among thirteen of London's off West End venues that have launched an apprenticeship scheme aimed at young people who hav…
Advocacy body Dance UK has nearly doubled its income in the past two years, despite losing all its regular Arts Council England funding in 2012. In 2011/12, the last year it was included wit…
Around 300 arts venues and organisations have now joined the first UK-wide arts festival for families, meaning more than 500 companies are now involved. As part of the week-long festival, Sh…
Comedian Jason Manford has criticised theatre operator Ambassador Theatre Group for charging high fees on top of tickets to his show, calling the organisation "parasites of the highest order…
The Two Worlds of Charlie F by Owen Sheers is to tour the UK next year. The play, which includes wounded, injured and sick ex-service men and women, was originally performed at a charity fun…
Stage actors in the UK are being artistically 'stifled' because they are worried about where their next job will come from, playwright Simon Stephens has said. Actors, who usually work as fr…
Playwrights have been subject to a "profound ideological hostility" from university departments teaching drama, theatre and performance for the past 20 years, writer David Edgar has claimed.…
A musical version of Anthony Neilson's The Night Before Christmas is to be staged at the Soho Theatre this Christmas as part of the venue's winter season. The play was originally performed b…
Theatre critic Libby Purves will stop reviewing for the Times from next month, following the termination of her contract. She has been notified by editors that as of October 11 she will no l…
English Touring Theatre is inviting audiences to vote for their favourite play in a bid to reveal the nation's most popular show. The theatre company has vowed to stage the plays with the hi…
Local authorities have seen a significant improvement in their relationships with regional arts council officers over the past year, according to a recent report. Around half of the 71 local…
Applications to drama degrees starting this academic year have increased from 2012, signalling a partial recovery after last year's fee increase caused a drop. Figures from the University an…
The Royal Opera House and Digital Theatre have joined forces to distribute filmed performances of opera and ballet online. Pre-recorded shows from the Royal Opera and Royal Ballet companies …
A children's theatre company has been launched to tour work featuring animated projections to cinemas across the capital. Ga Ga Theatre Company's first show will combine live performance wit…
The Royal Shakespeare Company's artistic director Gregory Doran has announced the organisation is entering into a three-year relationship with the Barbican after more than ten years since it…
Doncaster's new £22 million theatre, Cast, opened this weekend with shows including an opening ceremony from Slung Low theatre company and the launch of this year's Breakin' Convention. T…
Robert Webb and Sarah Hadland are to appear in Simon Paisley Day's debut play, Raving, at the Hampstead Theatre in London next month. Webb, best known for his role in Channel 4's Peep Show, …
South London's Ovalhouse theatre is in in talks with the local council to move to Brixton as part of a wider development scheme taking place in the area. The venue, which is currently situat…
