Touring company Northern Broadsides' spring production of Rutherford and Son is set to star Wendi Peters and Kate Anthony. Peters, who is best known for her role as Cilla Battersby Brown in …
Robert Lepage's Playing Cards 1: Spades will premiere in the UK at north London's Roundhouse theatre next spring. Directed by Lepage, the production is the first in a four-part series where …
The National Skills Academy network has been selected to run Arts Council England's Creative Employment Programme. The new initiative, which is designed to support up to 6,500 paid internshi…
London's Shaftesbury Theatre has applied to extend its fly tower and install a new grid and flying system, which would allow heavier items to be hoisted above the stage. If planning permissi…
St George's Theatre in Great Yarmouth has reopened after an £8 million refurbishment, having been beset by months of construction delays and the relocation of several shows. The 300-seat …
Plymouth's Theatre Royal has had £5 million Arts Council England funding confirmed for its redevelopment plans, provided the venue can still raise a £2 million contribution. The venue …
The arts industry has been set back 15 years by funding cuts and proposed changes to the national curriculum, theatre and film director Stephen Daldry has claimed. Daldry, who also served as…
The Shakespeare Schools Festival will receive £140,000 from the Department for Education to help it almost triple the number of schools it works with. The charity, which targets disadvant…
The Finborough Theatre has won the 2012 Empty Space… Peter Brook award for the second time. Theatre critic Fiona Mountford, who sat on the judging panel, said the venue had yet again been …
South London's Theatre503 has announced Jeremy Woodhouse as its first executive director. Woodhouse has been promoted from his role as general manager of the 60-seat venue above Battersea's …
Dominic Cooke is to direct Bruce Norris's new work The Low Road as part of his final season as artistic director of the Royal Court. The production will run in the Jerwood Theatre Downstairs…
Choreographer and dancer Liam Scarlett has been appointed as the Royal Ballet's first ever artist in residence. His new role, which he will take up immediately, means Scarlett will cease to …
Maurice's Jubilee, a play written by and starring Nichola McAuliffe, will tour the UK in the new year, following its run at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe. McAuliffe won best actress …
Wicked is set to tour the UK and Ireland from September 2013, beginning at Manchester's Palace Theatre. It will start its run from September 12, 2013, with further dates and locations yet to…
Janie Dee and Sian Phillips will star in the world premiere of a musical from Calendar Girls writer Tim Firth next summer as part of Sheffield Theatres' new season. This is My Family will be…
Haydn Gwynne, Robert Hardy and Paul Ritter will star alongside the previously announced Helen Mirren in the cast of The Audience. In the world premiere of Peter Morgan's new work, Gwynne wil…
The Andrew Lloyd Webber Foundation has awarded grants totaling £380,000 to arts organisations for their education programmes. The Royal Ballet School will receive the largest amount, with…
Director Justin Audibert, who won this year's Leverhulme bursary, will join forces with playwright and Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph for the European premiere of his Gruesome Playgrou…
Venue operator HQ Theatres has been appointed to manage Crewe's Lyceum Theatre from the new year. The local council has run the building up until now, but put the venue up for tender earlier…
Theatre 247 Limited, the company behind online television entertainment channel reelkandi.tv, has been dissolved. Following this, The Stage has been contacted by a series of industry figures…
The National Theatre's The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will transfer to London's Apollo Theatre next spring. Original cast member Luke Treadaway will reprise his lead role …
Arts Council England has announced an internal review of the selection process used by a judging panel to commission a Yorkshire-based local consortium for the London 2012 Cultural Olympiad.…
This year's Kenneth Tynan Award, which recognises dramaturgy in theatre and dance, has been presented to Ruth Little, for her work on Desh by the Akram Khan Company. The Dramaturgs' Network …
Arts organisations across England and Wales are receiving 40% less regular funding from councils than last year, a recent report has claimed. Arts Development UK has claimed in its annual su…
Rupert Goold will no longer direct the English National Opera's Wozzeck next spring. The Royal Shakespeare Company associate director has had to cancel his plans to direct the opera because …