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Manchester's Hope Mill Theatre will no longer present the UK premiere of Pasek and Paul musical A Christmas Story, with Sondheim revue
A play commissioned by the BBC as part of a controversial initiative for debut playwrights at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe has
Joanna Read is stepping down as principal of LAMDA to become chief executive of the Yvonne Arnaud Theatre. She joined LAMDA in
Based on Dick King-Smith's beloved children's book, the story of bright, polite and ambitious piglet Babe, the Sheep-Pig, is given a creaky
The story of Carmen has been reimagined countless times, but Christopher Renshaw's Carmen La Cubana, which draws its inspiration from both Bizet's
The Tete a Tete Opera Festival, running until August 18, thrives on the new and the experimental, so the 80-minute monodrama Mary's
Alexis Gregory’s Riot Act fits into a long tradition of gay solo performances, and with this tribute to the work of gay
I have been in Edinburgh since Wednesday. I always love these first few days of the festival before the city becomes crazily
The US will cease to be a majority-white populated country between 2040 and 2045 according to several reports on census population projections.
Dominic Dromgoole's Classic Spring season, a year-long celebration of the plays of Oscar Wilde, began with a production of A Woman of
It may be premature to hail a renaissance of stage plays on television. But with the news that BBC2's Performance Live strand
A production company has come under fire for plans to charge young people up to £100 to appear in its shows. Spark
Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts has announced a new master's course in acting in association with nearby Everyman and Playhouse. The MA
EastEnders star Tameka Empson has been cast in Hackney Empire’s 2018 pantomime, Aladdin. Empson will appear alongside the previously announced Clive Rowe,
A production of The Three Musketeers has been being entirely restaged at the last minute to accommodate its lead actor, who broke
The government has given £100,000 to the Edinburgh Festival Fringe to go towards promoting emerging artists on a global stage. The funding
Local authorities in England will spend £8.8 million less on culture this year, according to government figures that indicate shrinking nationwide arts
Any stage version of Frances Hodgson Burnett's beloved children's book hangs on the garden of its title. In Liz Stevenson's production, the
Back in 1909, Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot's 'fantastical musical play' The Arcadians was an enormous hit, running for 809 performances "
In the 50th year of what is now the most-performed musical in history, director Andrew Wright celebrates Joseph's origins as a school
The entertainment industry has been raising awareness of the issue of mental health among its workforce of late. Does it not also
There are a lot more laughs here than Othello usually provokes. In their latest team-up, director Claire van Kampen and husband Mark
A number of actors have recently called out reviewers for commenting on their bodies rather than their performances, The Stage's lead critic
I find myself continually impressed by theatremakers' seemingly boundless optimism. Theatre is a career that most people would not have pursued were
Celebrating the centenary of votes for women, Spectra Ensemble puts on a rare performance of Ethel Smyth's jokey opera from 1914, The
