Touring production Annie Get Your Gun starring Jason Donovan has cancelled its final performances at the Princess Theatre in Torquay. The Irving Berlin musical was due to run at the venue fr…
Cynthia Erivo will join the all-female cast of Henry IV at the Donmar Warehouse directed by Phyllida Lloyd. Erivo, whose previous credits include West End show I Can't Sing! The X Factor Mus…
Edinburgh Fringe show The City by Israeli company Incubator Theatre, which got shut down at the festival following protests, is to run at north London Jewish venue JW3 next week. The product…
Derby Hippodrome campaigners have moved one step closer to restoring the venue for live entertainment after submitting plans to the council to rejuvenate the front of house areas as an inter…
Just 2.6% of jobs taken by musical theatre graduates in their first year of work are for shows in the West End, a survey has revealed. Of the near-500 performing arts jobs accepted by three-…
Rosie Wyatt and ensemble Tumanishvili Film Actors Theatre Company of Tbilisi have been recognised in the second week of The Stage Awards for Acting Excellence at the Edinburgh Festival Fring…
Richard Schiff and Nigel Lindsay are to appear alongside Lindsay Lohan in the forthcoming West End production of Speed-the-Plow. Schiff, who is best known for his role in US TV series The We…
Nine out of 10 students at Rose Bruford College, the Conservatoire for Dance and Drama and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland are happy with their training, according to this year's results…
BBC Radio has been accused of "undervaluing" writers after the Corporation increased minimum rates of pay by just 1% for creators of audio comedy and drama. The Writers' Guild of Great Brita…
Lucy Punch is to play the lead role in the West End transfer of Great Britain by Richard Bean. She will appear as Paige Britain, the role that is currently played by Billie Piper at…
Nimax Theatres chief executive Nica Burns, Roundhouse executive producer Nicola Thorold and The Stage's editor Alistair Smith are to judge the theatre category in this year's Hospital Club h…
Soho Theatre's plans to turn a former north London cinema into an entertainment venue have been boosted after the local council agreed to provide funding for the project. At a recent cabinet…
Actors are demanding a "substantial" pay rise of up to 10% from theatre managers in the West End as part of a four-year deal between Equity and the Society of London Theatre. The union is…
Participation in after-school performing arts activities by primary school children has worsened under the current government, with those from black and minority ethnic backgrounds losing ou…
Roger Allam is to star in Theresa Rebeck's Seminar at the Hampstead Theatre this autumn. Allam will appear as Leonard, the role originated by Alan Rickman when the play premiered on Broadway…
The Musicians' Union has bolstered its campaign to reinstate the live band into the West End production of War Horse, after leafleting hundreds of concertgoers at the BBC Proms yesterday (Au…
Only around a third of audience members read reviews or media coverage of a show either before or after they have attended the performance, a new study has found. Of the 36% who do read r…
More than 1,200 theatregoers have pledged to keep their mobile phones turned off during performances as part of a campaign to improve audience etiquette. Audience members have agreed to ensu…
Peter Davison has been cast in the first London revival of David Hare's The Vertical Hour at the Park Theatre in north London. The actor, who is best known for playing the fifth doctor in…
Edinburgh Fringe venue operator C Venues will launch three new spaces at the festival from tomorrow. C South is a 110-seat space with end-on staging at St Peter's Church and will host works …
David Tennant, Simon Russell Beale, Penelope Wilton and Derek Jacobi have added their names to a letter urging Arts Council England to explain its decision to remove Orange Tree Theatre's en…
Secret Cinema has announced its immersive production of Back to the Future will go ahead from this Thursday, following the cancellation of its opening performances. The production, which inv…
Proposed government reforms for music and dance GCSE and A Levels that reduce the emphasis on practical work will be "hugely damaging" to pupils if they are introduced, industry bodies have …
The UK's cultural offering is the country's most appealing feature for young people visiting from abroad, according to a new survey. More than a third of 18 to 34 year olds from Brazil, Chin…
Arts Council England and other public funders of culture should ring-fence at least 1% of their annual budget to help unlock millions of pounds of additional investment for the sector, accor…