1,225 stories by "Nicola Merrifield"
London-based organisations have defended the city's level of arts funding in light of recent claims that public cultural investment is unfairly biased towards the capital. As part of its sub…
Neil Morrissey is to join the cast of Relative Values at the Harold Pinter Theatre in London later this month. He will star as Crestwell, replacing Rory Bremner from May 26. The change means…
A petition launched by the Musicians' Union that calls on the National Theatre to reinstate the War Horse band in its West End run of the show has gained more than 6,000 signatures so far…
Three actors should be paid the national minimum wage for work on a fringe production that was advertised as profit share, an employment judge has found. This marks the second case in the pa…
Latitude Festival has revealed further acts for this year's line-up, including Candoco Dance Company and site-specific theatre company Look Left Look Right. Candoco, which uses disabled and …
Canal Cafe Theatre in west London has appointed Sandra Thompson-Quartey as its new producer and general manager as part of a move to develop the venue's theatre programme. She takes up her r…
Concerns have been raised that university performing arts students with dyslexia could miss out on "invaluable" tutoring after the government announced changes to its funding for disabled pu…
London's forthcoming production of Forbidden Broadway at the Menier Chocolate Factory is to star Anna-Jane Casey, Damian Humbley, Sophie-Louise Dann and Ben Lewis. Casey and Dann return to t…
The Royal Ballet School's director Gailene Stock has died today after suffering from cancer. Stock joined the London training centre for young dancers in 1999 and led the organisation's arti…
More National Lottery funding is allocated to London's five major arts organisations " including the National Theatre and the Royal Opera House " than the country's 33 local authority areas …
Punchdrunk's immersive London show The Drowned Man: A Hollywood Fable is to end its run in July. The production will close on July 6, a year after it began its run at a former Royal…
Rebecca Lock and Alasdair Harvey are to join the London production of Mamma Mia! from this summer. Lock, who has previously appeared in The Phantom of the Opera and Mary Poppins, will play R…
Child performers appearing in BBC dramas will no longer be allowed to be chaperoned by their parents when they are filming, following a policy change by the Corporation. The orga…
Ian Bartholomew and Anna Carteret have been cast in the West End stage adaptation of Shakespeare in love. They will appear as Tilney and Queen Elizabeth, respectively and join the previously…
London's Menier Chocolate Factory is to once again stage comedy revue Forbidden Broadway. The spoof show will be presented as a new version, seen for the first time in the UK with additional…
Birmingham Repertory Theatre will be the home of this year's Be Festival, which celebrates European culture, after the event was forced to relocate from the factory it previously occupied. T…
Greenwich Council has granted planning permission for a multi-million pound refurbishment of its Borough Hall venue, despite national advisory body the Theatres Trust raising "substantial co…
Campaigners in Rochdale are calling for a new 500-seat town-centre theatre to be built to provide a venue for smaller touring companies. They claim there are currently no professional small-…
Sonia Friedman has praised the government's forthcoming tax reliefs for the theatre sector, calling them a "game changer" for less experienced producers. The commercial producer, who runs So…
The Musicians' Union has claimed its fight on behalf of musicians that were made redundant from the West End production of War Horse is "far from over". This is despite the band's failed att…
Richard Eyre has described directing shows in smaller London venues as being more "emancipating" than working on productions in the West End. Eyre, who last weekend won the Olivier awa…
Stage set designers at the start of their career need to visit the theatre more often and be "obsessed" with the profession if they want to achieve success, Olivier award-winning set designe…
Musicians who were made redundant from the National Theatre's West End production of War Horse have failed to secure an interim injunction which they had hoped would allow them to return to …
The Olivier Awards 2014 took place in London last night, with The Book of Mormon and Chimerica being named the big winners of the night. We spoke to some of the prize recipients to find̷…
Proposals to demolish south-east London's Woolwich Grand Theatre and replace it with flats have been put on hold after the local council requested that the developer modify its designs. Gree…
