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The director of Anne Boleyn, which won the best touring production award at this year's Theatre Awards UK, has paid tribute to English Touring Theatre for taking a "risk" on the show. John D…
Theatrical Management Association president Rachel Tackley has warned of "increasing cuts from local authorities" to regional theatres, and called on leading industry figures to continue cam…
Graeae Theatre Company's artistic director Jenny Sealey has warned that UK theatre is still "very male, very white, very non-disabled". Sealey spoke out after accepting the company's award f…
Sadler's Wells' 15th anniversary programme will include a new work by choreographer and dancer Akram Khan inspired by composer Igor Stravinsky's ballet The Rite of Spring. Khan will present …
Hampstead Theatre's production of Di and Viv and Rose will return to the venue next year, with Tamzin Outhwaite, Gina McKee and Anna Maxwell Martin reprising their original roles. This marks…
Imelda Staunton's performance as Mrs Lovett in Sweeney Todd and Henry Goodman's lead role in The Resistable Rise of Arturo Ui, have won them best performance titles in this year's Theatre Aw…
Michael Attenborough's final season at London's Almeida Theatre will include Henry James' The Turn of the Screw, directed by Lindsay Posner. This new stage adaptation from Rebecca Lenkiewicz…
Peter Nichols' Passion Play will run at London's Duke of York's Theatre this spring starring Zoe Wanamaker. The show will be directed by David Leveaux and will see him re-unite with Wanamake…
Ambassador Theatre Group will trial autism-friendly performances at three of its regional venues with a view to bringing similar shows to the West End. The 'relaxed performance' pilot scheme…
Opera company Glyndebourne has appointed its first ever dramaturg. Cori Ellison, who previously worked as staff dramaturg at New York City Opera for more than ten years, will join the Sussex…
Dance leaders have joined forces to speak out against the exclusion of arts from the government's proposed English baccalaureate reforms. In an open letter signed by ten executives including…
National Theatre Wales executive producer Lucy Davies is to join the Royal Court Theatre as executive director. She will leave the company she co-founded with artistic director John McGrath …
The chairman of Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance has urged the government to continue specialist funding for such arts schools. In a House of Lords debate, Labour peer David Li…
Jermyn Street Theatre's production of Samuel Beckett's All That Fall is to transfer to the Arts Theatre from next month. The show, which was originally created as a radio play, will run at t…
The Royal Opera House is proposing an overhaul of its pension scheme for technical staff, citing a £16 million deficit and the projected cost of auto-enrolment. The company has launched a…
Despite the recession and cuts to the arts, it is "never a better time to write a play," according to Everyman and Playhouse artistic director Gemma Bodinetz. Bodinetz, who spoke yesterday a…
Battersea Arts Centre's joint artistic director David Micklem is to step down from his position to leave the venue at the end of November. Micklem has jointly run BAC for five years and said…
Felicity Kendal and Kara Tointon are to star in Alan Ayckbourn's Relatively Speaking at London's Wyndham's Theatre next summer. Jonathan Coy and Max Bennett will also appear in the play, whi…
Joe Wright will direct Olivier award winner Chiwetel Ejiofor in the UK premiere of A Season in the Congo as part of the Young Vic's 2013 season. The play is by Martinique poet and politician…
Actors have been warned to verify unsolicited emails from casting directors, following several scams in which people have fraudulently posed as leading industry figures when contacting perfo…
Documentary-theatre company Look Left Look Right has been crowned the winner of a competition which will see its immersive production staged in a West End hotel. The company was chosen from …
The 2013 Olivier Awards will be hosted at the Royal Opera House on April 28, 2013. This is the 37th annual awards ceremony and is the second year running that the event will take place...
The Touring Consortium Theatre Company will receive more than £1 million of the £2.6 million available from the fourth round of Arts Council England's touring funding. This is the larg…
Shakespeare's Globe has announced its 2013 season, which will feature three in-house productions by Shakespeare, plus world premieres of new work from playwrights Che Walker, Jessica Swale a…
Sarah Brigham is to become the new artistic director at Derby Theatre. This marks the first time a resident director has been appointed since the University of Derby took over the running of…
