Street performers at Edinburgh Fringe to benefit from cashless donations pilot
Buskers at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be able to accept cashless donations using a contactless payment system as part of
Buskers at this year's Edinburgh Festival Fringe will be able to accept cashless donations using a contactless payment system as part of
In Wagner's Der Fliegende Hollander, the 'romantic wanderer' figure takes on a supernatural element. The titular sea-captain is condemned to sail the
Andrew Lloyd Webber is to receive a special Classic Brit award for his services to musical theatre and arts education. Lloyd Webber
Equity is to lobby the government for a law change to make it harder for rogue producers to set up and dissolve
Gerry Linford's The Miracle of Great Homer Street was runner-up in last year's Hope Playwriting Prize and Les Dennis was sitting on
Michael Longhurst has been announced as new artistic director of the Donmar Warehouse in London. Longhurst will take over from Josie Rourke
After much planning, Above the Stag has finally opened the doors to its new venue in Vauxhall. As the only full-time LGBT+
Here's a challenge: can you remember the best musical nominees at this year's Olivier awards? What about those nominees a year earlier
The New York Times has caused something of a stir with a piece ranking the best 25 American plays written since Tony
Regional theatre attendance has fallen in the past year, as has the total taken at the box office, according to new figures.
For a few years, regional theatre leaders have warned that things are getting tougher outside of London. In the subsidised sector, local
Rather than a monologue, Rona Munro's adaptation of Elizabeth Strout's novel feels like 90 minutes of epilogue. The wistful tone, the crushing
The American Theatre Wing, launched by suffragettes, is the organisation behind the biggest night on Broadway. Mark Shenton meets its president, Heather
Following a hugely successful launch in 2016, Festival of Voice returns to Cardiff’s Wales Millennium Centre for its much-anticipated second instalment, which
Belfast City Council has thrown its weight between a campaign calling for increased arts funding in Northern Ireland. A motion tabled by
A new course exploring how digital technology can be used in theatre is being piloted by the National Youth Theatre and Central
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe Society has promised to address the issue of fair pay for workers as it launches its biggest ever
One can understand Douglas Eaton's critique of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama's move to scrap grading for first-year students
TV presenter, Britain's Got Talent judge and actor Amanda Holden has dipped her toes into a variety of performance roles. Take Princess
Theatr Clwyd's stage management team has won at this year's SMA National Stage Management Awards for its work on The Assassination of
The latest press night parties, events and awards from the theatrical world in pictures.This week's highlights include the press nights of Confidence and
For those who have seen Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, it will have escaped precisely no one's notice that it is
Together with his sister, Suma, Johnny Lamonte became one of the most popular speciality acts on the post-war variety circuit, a master
The winner of The Stage Scholarship 2018 at Youth Music Theatre UK is Noah Cochrane, aged 12 from Portadown, Co Armagh in