Plans to introduce actors to mime the parts of musicians who were made redundant from the National Theatre's West End production of War Horse in March have been labelled "desperately unfair"…
Gate Theatre's Grounded, starring Lucy Ellinson, is to transfer to the US before embarking on a tour of the UK this summer. The show, which is currently playing at the Gate Theatre in west L…
English National Ballet dancers Junor Souza and Alison McWhinney have been named joint winners of the company's Emerging Dancer Competition. At the live competition on Monday night at London…
Hip hop artist Ivan Blackstock and Chinese company Tao Dance Theatre are among the performers featuring at this year's Dance Umbrella festival, which stages works across London venues. The p…
Suranne Jones has become a patron of new Manchester venue Home, which opens in spring 2015. The actor joins fellow patrons including director Danny Boyle and National Theatre director Nichol…
Liverpool's Royal Court Theatre artistic director Ken Alexander is to leave the venue at the end of next month after 18 months in post and will not be replaced. He will step down from his…
Rambert is to perform a site-specific version of Merce Cunningham's signature works, the Events, at its new South Bank building this summer. This marks the first time the touring dance compa…
Juliet Stevenson, David Harewood and Oliver Ford Davies are among a group of actors who will perform Shakespeare's entire collection of 154 sonnets at the Southbank Centre this summer. Al…
Derby Theatre has appointed Natalie Ibu as its creative producer for a new scheme that will support emerging artists in the East Midlands. In this newly created role, which she begins next m…
Performers from a touring musical have been left tens of thousands of pounds out of pocket after the production ran into financial problems and was cancelled. Members of the 18-strong cast, …
Joan Littlewood's 100th birthday anniversary is to be marked by a nationwide event of free pop-up performances and activities from more than 80 organisations. Venues including Hackney Empire…
Equity has upped its campaign against low pay and no pay work in the entertainment sector, creating a new role specifically charged with enforcing the national minimum wage in fringe shows a…
Leicester's Curve has increased its annual ticket sales by nearly 130% since it opened in 2008, its review of 2012/13 has revealed. The venue sold more than 262,000 tickets in its last finan…
Hugh Jackman, Cush Jumbo and Laura Donnelly are to star in the Broadway transfer of the Royal Court Theatre's production of The River. The play, by Jez Butterworth, will be directed by Ia…
Jane Horrocks is to star in a revival of East is East, which will be the second show as part of Jamie Lloyd's season at the Trafalgar Studios in London. The play, by Ayub Khan…
Vanessa Kirby and Ben Foster are to join the cast of A Streetcar Named Desire at the Young Vic. Kirby, who has previously appeared in the BBC adaptation of Great Expectations and the Young V…
Sylvie Guillem and Russell Maliphant's dance show Push is to return to the London Coliseum later this year. The work, which is a Sadler's Wells production and has been announced as part of t…
Michelle Collins is to star in a new play by Martyn Hesford at the Hampstead Theatre this summer. Called The Glass Supper, the show will run in the north London venue's studio space from Jun…
Juliette Binoche is to appear in a new English translation of Antigone at the Barbican in London next spring. The French actor has been cast in a new version of the Sophocles play by poet…
The Southbank Centre is launching a major new festival of performance, events and installations to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web from this autumn. The eight-month even…
Gina McKee has been cast as Queen Elizabeth in Jamie Lloyd's production of Richard III at the Trafalgar Studios in London. She will appear opposite the previously announced Martin Freeman, w…
Cuts to local authority funding in England have led to greater reductions in arts and culture spend in poorer areas than in wealthier areas, data collected by a shadow culture minister's off…
People who attend plays have a level of wellbeing equivalent to the amount of happiness derived from a £1,000 annual income increase, new research on the social impacts of culture has fou…
Jack Lowden has won this year's Ian Charleson award for outstanding performance in a classical role by an actor under the age of 30. He was given the prize for his appearance as Oswald in…
Proposals to redevelop the Brighton Hippodrome into a £20 million cinema complex have been formally criticised by the Theatres Trust, with the body claiming that options to restore the ve…