Romesh Ranganathan has been named the winner of the Leicester Mercury Comedian of the Year Award. The announcement was made yesterday at Dave's Leicester Comedy Festival show, where Mark Sim…
Judi Dench has been made honorary fellow of the Royal Central School of Speech and Drama. Dench graduated from the school in 1957 with a first class degree in acting and four acting prizes. …
This year's Off West End Theatre Awards saw Eileen Atkins take home the prize for best female performance for her role in Samuel Beckett's All That Fall at Jermyn Street Theatre. . At a cere…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has appointed Stephen Eames as its new finance director. Eames, who is currently deputy finance director at Southbank Centre, will take up his role on April 15.…
More than 60 % of UK theatres and producing companies have said they have cancelled or postponed at least one production since April 2012, according to a survey looking at the impact of�…
A British theatre producer who was arrested after staging a play with gay themes in Uganda and then deported back to the UK last week has said he is not deterred from creating future work...
Chichester Festival Theatre has announced its 2013 summer season, which will feature Richard Eyre directing musical The Pajama Game and a revival of Tim Firth's comedy Neville's Island. The …
The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre in Taunton has gone into administration citing cuts to its public funding in recent years for its decision. In a statement released by the venue today, …
The Brewhouse Theatre and Arts Centre in Taunton is to go into administration tomorrow following cuts to its public funding in recent years. The centre is expected to confirm that it will…
Circa is set to return to Edinburgh Festival Fringe this summer with its show Wunderkammer. The Australian-based circus company last performed at the fringe in 2009. Wunderkammer will be sta…
Theatre by the Lake in Keswick is planning a £700,000 restaurant and cafe development to ensure a more secure future for the venue. Following a grant of £400,000 from Arts Council Engl…
The Royal Court in Liverpool has appointed Ken Alexander as its inaugural artistic director. Previously, the venue employed directors on a show-by-show basis. With a new artistic director in…
A new stage adaptation of George Orwell's 1984 by Duncan Macmillan and Robert Icke is set to run at Nottingham Playhouse this autumn before embarking on a national tour. Headlong Theatre's a…
A play about Chinese artist and political dissident Ai WeiWei written by Howard Brenton will receive its world premiere at the Hampstead Theatre in London as part of the venue's spring seaso…
The Tricycle Theatre's 2013 spring season will include the transfer of Frank McGuinness's The Match Box from the Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse and the world premiere of a new play by Alex…
The Pitmen Painters will embark on a national tour this spring. Bill Kenwright Productions will tour the Live Theatre and the National Theatre's co-production of Lee Hall's play from March 1…
A campaign to fight the double taxation of artists who work abroad has been launched by a European performing arts trade organisation. Currently, performers can be taxed in the foreign count…
The Royal Opera House has launched a partnership with one of Brazil's major theatres to develop an education, audience engagement and skills programme. Rio de Janeiro's Theatro Municipal wil…
The West End's first live broadcast of a show's opening night was transmitted to around 7,500 people in local cinemas across the UK and Ireland. Great Expectations' live screening took aroun…
Leading figures from the cultural sector have described the government's decision to drop its English Baccalaureate proposals as a "big win", but have warned there is still work to be done t…
Shadow culture secretary Harriet Harman has accused the coalition government of a "brazen and wholesale" retreat from public support for the creative industries, in a keynote speech this wee…
The Royal Opera House has announced that Stanton Williams Architects will carry out a feasibility study for a project aimed at making the company's street level public areas more inviting. T…
The first live broadcast of a West End opening night took place yesterday evening at the Great Expectations gala performance at the Vaudeville Theatre. More than 150 cinemas across the UK an…
Rupert Goold has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Almeida Theatre in north London. He will take up his role in August, replacing outgoing artistic director Michael Attenbor…
Proposals to replace GCSEs with an English Baccalaureate qualification that did not include arts subjects have been dropped by the government. Arts campaigners who had opposed the EBacc prop…