35,882 stories from The Stage
Swilling champagne and wearing sunglasses, a dog, whose briefcase declares him to be with Mega Stage Productions, announces to his startled pig
The West End, similar to Broadway, thrives on a bit of star power. As Matt Wolf recently noted in the New York
The sturdy star of this time-travelling drama gives a wooden performance. Tanya Ronder's 2013 play Table centres on the eponymous piece of furniture.
In the West End, musical theatre is usually performed under a proscenium arch and behind a fourth wall. At Soho Theatre however,
A new initiative has been set up to being more people from under-represented backgrounds into commercial theatre producing. Bridge the Gap, from
Wayne McGregor is choreographing a new film adaptation of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s Cats, which will start shooting later this year. A film
The government has detailed its intention to replicate the impact of Hull City of Culture in smaller towns and cities across the
Quarantine and National Theatre Wales are natural bedfellows, two trailblazers in representing their communities as much as the performing arts sector. Their
The Big I Am is not an adaptation of Peer Gynt. Rather, it's a reimagining of Ibsen's play in which Robert Farquhar
A book by former National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner about his time in the job has won the 2018 Theatre Book Prize.
The second operatic collaboration between composer Tansy Davies and poet Nick Drake focuses on climate change. In a 'near-future' world decimated by
Paapa Essiedu, Maggie Steed and Keith Allen are to star in a West End season of Harold Pinter's one-act plays. The plays
Storyhouse in Chester, Liverpool’s Royal Court and the Shaftesbury Theatre in the West End are among the winners of the Royal Institute
Cole Porter's 1948 musical is one of those shows with backstory and baggage. Supposedly based on wife and husband acting duo Lynn
Understudy Steph Parry’s story of stepping out of 42nd Street at Theatre Royal Drury Lane and moments later into the lead role in Mamma Mia! down the street
Mike Lew's Teenage Dick is a high school-set tongue-in-cheek tragicomedy that riffs on Richard III. Discontent with being class secretary, and wanting
Hornsey Town Hall is set to be restored and reopened as a "future-proofed, modern arts centre", after lying empty for more than
With a fall in audiences outside London last year, now is the time to look at why theatres are ailing, argues Jonathan
Two new awards are being established for this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, with an aim of helping productions achieve a greater social
After 55 years as an actor I have, somewhat belatedly, embarked upon my first musical. I have done decades of 'straight' theatre,
Theatres across the UK will soon be able to access training to address unconscious bias at work, as part of a drive
Oxford’s North Wall Arts Centre has announced a new award to support emerging theatre companies. The Alchymy Company Award will help one
Comprising numbers from New York songwriter John Bucchino's extensive back catalogue, It's Only Life is less a jukebox musical than a mosaic
Woyzeck, Georg Büchner's fragmented, unfinished play about a downtrodden soldier who murders his partner isn't an immediately obvious choice for a mass
This month brought the fearless and " as some interviewers have found " fearsome French actor Isabelle Huppert back to the UK
