This week’s production news includes casting for a season of Harold Pinter’s one-act plays in the West End, as well as the
At the age of 85, John Copley " Britain's most experienced opera director " stages Mozart's Turkish comedy The Abduction from the
Last week, it was revealed that Wayne McGregor is choreographing a big screen adaptation of Cats. The film will follow screen adaptations
Producers behind a musical theatre show at the Royal Albert Hall have been forced to apologise after coming under fire for promoting
Deborah Bull, former Royal Ballet dancer and creative leader, has been made a peer for life in recognition of her work in
Charles Gounod's second most popular opera (after Faust), Romeo et Juliette suffers from the composer falling in love with the sheer loveliness
Which live performances and venues do I enjoy the most? This question came up in a recent conversation with a relative, who
Jerusalem "Â Watermill Theatre, Newbury Jasper Britton has been cast as Johnny 'Rooster' Byron, the role famously and memorably played by Mark Rylance
Money makes all the difference. Back in the 1990s, when I was travelling the country reviewing regional theatre, the evidence of years
Whilst the cast of the current West End production of Tartuffe perform in a mixture of English and French, the bilingual Exchange
An investigation is being launched into the barriers to becoming a lighting designer faced by people from black, Asian and minority ethnic
Andrew Lloyd Webber has officially renamed the New London Theatre in honour of Gillian Lynne, who choreographed Cats there in 1981. The
Rikki Beadle-Blair, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Lynette Linton and Roy Williams are among the writers that have written monologues for the Royal Court Theatre
Milly Thomas' Dust is to transfer to Trafalgar Studios this September. Having won one of The Stage’s Edinburgh Award in 2017, Dust
After making her debut at the Royal Court with the acclaimed Lela and Co in 2015 and winning the 2017 Pinter Commission,
Under the mentorship of one of the UK’s most prominent producing theatres, the Lyric Ensemble is a group of aspiring actors without
Conor Mitchell's work is unpredictable and fearlessly theatrical. That’s what makes it so exhilarating. In The Fall of the House of Usher,
By Paco Bezerra English translation by Marion Peter Holt “An important theatre production that sparks debate and must be talked about in
The human cost of the 2022 World Cup in Qatar isn't so much FIFA's dirty little secret as an ongoing Amnesty-certified human
When the wealthy Rowena Cade wanted an outdoor theatre for her amateur production of The Tempest, Cornish gardener Billy Rawlings made it
For their first appearance at Sadler's Wells, Dresden's Semperoper Ballett make a judicious selection of William Forsythe works. His classical-based modernism is
New cast members have been announced as joining Jim Broadbent in the world premiere of A Very Very Very Dark Matter at
West Yorkshire Playhouse has announced that it will now be known as Leeds Playhouse, in a move the theatre hopes will better
An informal reporting scheme for staff concerned about inappropriate behaviour is being rolled out by London's Old Vic to theatres around the
In her book Lesbian Nation, Jill Johnston explained her conflict at taking part in a now infamous debate about feminism in 1971.