35,882 stories from The Stage
Rose Theatre Kingston has committed to ending single-use plastic at the venue as part of a commitment to becoming a greener organisation.
Orlando Bloom hasn't had the most conventional career. He bagged the life-changing role of Legolas in Lord of the Rings two days
When Mamma Mia! star Caroline Deverill was forced offstage after picking up an injury last night (June 7, 2018), and with no
It’s Gay Pride month in New York, and even the free Playbill programmes given out at every Broadway theatre have turned rainbow
The Carry On star died 30 years ago, but remains one of the UK's best-loved comic performers. As a new book explores
It's always easy to find reasons to be grumpy about the Tony Awards. Whether it's overcritical omissions (what do you mean there's
An actor appearing in 42nd Street saved a performance of Mamma Mia! just down the road, after she made a quick dash
Taking its cue from Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s 1892 gothic feminist short story The Yellow Wallpaper, Ruby Lawrence’s intelligent re-imagining makes for an
A new 600-seat theatre in London's King's Cross is being planned. While it has not officially been confirmed, The Stage understands that
The Edinburgh International Book Festival is becoming an “incubator” for new theatre, according to its director Nick Barley. Speaking at the launch
Producer Paul Elliott has insisted he is not retiring from the industry, despite a press release issued earlier this week that announced
Part-ghost train, part-art installation, Phobiarama is a strikingly unusual performance piece which sees its audience trundling around a sterile white environment in
The last new Royal Opera Lohengrin was in 1977, when Elijah Moshinsky's finest staging for the company had its premiere; but following
In Italy in 1938, fuelled by Mussolini’s obsession with maintaining a pure and healthy race, known and suspected homosexuals were rounded up
The West End is dominated by musicals in terms of attendance, revenue and longevity. While plays are shoehorned into 14 or 15-week
August Strindberg's classic, in the hands of Polly Stenham and Carrie Cracknell, updated and enriched, is a piece that pulls in polar
Cormac's got the full house: HIV, hepatitis, syphilis, herpes, gonorrhoea. Bingo. And he's not dealing with it very well. Alan Flanagan's likeable
Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre has unveiled new onsite studios that will enable most of its productions to be rehearsed within its
Outgoing Equity president Malcolm Sinclair has argued that drama school students are most vulnerable to harassment because they fear being seen as
Mark Rylance has claimed noisy and disruptive audience members are the fault of actors not "telling the story well enough". Rylance was
Comedians Jenny Eclair, Shappi Khorsandi and Natalie Haynes are to write a new musical comedy called Women in Power as part of
It would have been nice, of course, to see another woman appointed to head up a major theatre. But never mind, it's
English National Ballet's The Sleeping Beauty is worth waking up for. Kenneth MacMillan's production for American Ballet Theatre had a fraught journey
A black man born on a slave ship in early 18th-century Britain goes on to enjoy a career as a famous musician,
Elizabeth Newman is to step down as artistic director of the Octagon Theatre in Bolton to run the Pitlochry Festival Theatre. She
