Gene David Kirk has launched his first season as artistic director of the Drayton Arms Theatre in west London, revealing that all productions will operate under a cooperative business model,…
Theatre Hullabaloo has secured a provisional £1.5 million grant from Arts Council England's latest round of capital investment to create a flagship children's theatre in Darlington. The c…
Arts Council England's new set of portfolio organisations represents "no demonstrated ambition" to redress the balance of funding between the regions and London, according to the authors of …
Musical Return to the Forbidden Planet will tour the UK next year to celebrate its 25th anniversary. The show, which premiered in 1989 at the Cambridge Theatre in London and won an Olivier a…
Regional organisations will see their share of Arts Council England core funding increase by 2% for 2015 to 2018, the funding body revealed yesterday. ACE's announcement, which unveiled its …
Physical theatre company Frantic Assembly is to partner with Coventry University to deliver a postgraduate qualification in theatre-making. The two organisations claim this marks the first t…
Theatre companies that are regularly funded by Arts Council England will be forced to monitor the diversity of on-stage talent, following new requirements laid out by ACE. All national portf…
The National Theatre's production about phone hacking, Great Britain, is to transfer to the West End this September. The play, by Richard Bean, opened at the NT on Monday without previews af…
Buxton Opera House and the Pavilion Arts Centre, which are jointly run by High Peak Theatre Trust, have appointed Simon Glinn as the venues' new chief executive. He joins in September from t…
Arts Council England chief executive Alan Davey has said the funding body's investment round announced today signals an attempt to maintain stability across the sector and demonstrate a "vot…
Jobs in the creative industries have increased by more than 10% in the past two years, according to new government research. From 2011 to 2013, there was a rise in the number of people worki…
Matthew Kelly has been cast in a revival of Richard Bean's play Toast at the Park Theatre in north London this summer. He will play the role of Nellie opposite Simon Greenall as Cecil, who&#…
Darlington Civic Theatre has been refused a grant of £5 million by the Heritage Lottery Fund, stalling plans to restore the Edwardian venue. The 900-seat theatre, which is owned and opera…
Evita is to return to the West End this September, starring Marti Pellow as Che and Madalena Alberto in the lead role. The musical, by Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd Webber, will reopen the multi…
New plays by Jack Thorne, Duncan Macmillan, and a stage adaptation of Roald Dahl's The Twits by Enda Walsh are to feature as part of the Royal Court Theatre’s new 2014/15 season. John …
The government has published its response to the consultation on the forthcoming theatre tax relief, agreeing to ensure all performing arts companies are eligible for the initiative includin…
Jeeves and Wooster play Perfect Nonsense has extended its West End run by a further four months, until early 2015. The show will run at the Duke of York's Theatre until January 17, 2015, wit…
Clean Break has appointed freelance director Roisin McBrinn as its new head of artistic programming. McBrinn, who was also associate director at Sherman Cymru until February, will join the w…
Regional theatres are being targeted by a new live broadcasting scheme that will transmit shows from outside London to cinemas across the UK. Set up by cinema broadcast distributor Quantum D…
Some Girl I Used To Know starring Denise Van Outen is to transfer to the Arts Theatre in central London this summer. The one-woman show, which is co-written by the performer and Terry Ronald…
The National Theatre has announced it will premiere Richard Bean's new play about press intrusion and phone hacking on Monday, following the verdicts of those journalists involved in t…
Circus groups are lobbying to be included in the government's forthcoming theatre tax relief scheme, claiming it would boost the number and quality of productions and "legitimise" the art fo…
Cinema screenings of stage productions through National Theatre Live have not resulted in a fall in theatregoing, research has found. Theatres in England have experienced no decrease in atte…
Ambassador Theatre Group has launched a corporate website to showcase its portfolio of shows and venues. The UK-based theatre owner and operator's new online resource will function separatel…
Lenny Henry has welcomed the £2.1 million fund announced by the BBC last week to tackle black, Asian and minority ethnic representation, calling on other broadcasters to match this amount…