35,882 stories from The Stage
Puppets are on the up " War Horse and Pinocchio being just a couple of recent examples. So now is a better
While onstage gender reversal has long been a common sight in pantomime, drag has tended to be regarded as a niche style
With his background writing for Coronation Street, playwright Ben Tagoe knows how to crank up the tension in a confined space. With
Sierra Boggess has withdrawn from a concert performance of West Side Story at the BBC Proms after a backlash over the
Actors Alexander Vlahos and Alexandra Dowling have argued it is "more important than ever" to give children opportunities to see live theatre,
"A lot can happen in a day" is the low-bubbling refrain of Joe White's debut play Mayfly. Set in rural Shropshire, it's
Hayley Atwell and Jack Lowden will star in a new production of Measure for Measure at the Donmar Warehouse, in which they
I was 10 when I got my first professional acting job. I'd been at a local stage school and some producers came
Meet our panel: We have given our panellists pen-names and used stock images but their biographies reflect their real career details… John
How did you start off in theatre? In the National Youth Theatre run by Michael Croft " a wonderful introduction to life
When someone eventually writes the definitive history of British East Asian theatre, March 2018 will surely go down as a culmination of
"And the whole thing is a whale carcass… because of… fear…" I tail off in a room of creatives stunned into silence.
“I want the next couple of hours to be a show everyone remembers forever!”, declares one of the three actresses who portrays
Andrew Lloyd Webber is to receive a lifetime achievement award for his work in theatre at this year's Tony Awards in New
After training as a designer, Terry Herfield found her calling as a costume supervisor. She tells Nick Smurthwaite how she manages to
More than half of people answering a poll by The Stage approve of the Tricycle's name change to Kiln Theatre. It follows
Ken Kesey's One Flew Over he Cuckoo's Nest was published in 1962. Milos Forman's iconic movie, starring Jack Nicholson, was released in
Versailles star Alexander Vlahos is to play Romeo opposite The Musketeers' Alexandra Dowling as Juliet at a new pop-up Shakespeare theatre in
Film and TV costume designer Claire Finlay-Thompson is venturing into the world of theatre to work on Spiked, a new play exploring
Dames looks incredible. The music's pounding, the alcopops are flowing and designer April Dalton's interpretation of the nightclub toilet setting is all
Three very different mothers converge in a hospital waiting room, anxious for updates, after a class of Year 10 pupils are mysteriously
Male Shakespearean roles taken by actresses are often described as 'gender neutral', but Golda Rosheuvel's Othello at Liverpool's Everyman is very much
Kathleen Turner is an instinctive performer who rarely shrinks from a challenge. She made her film debut in Body Heat, had leading
Last week, Kwame Kwei-Armah, new Young Vic artistic director, said he wanted to “mess with the idea” that the UK relies too
Leading figures including director Indhu Rubasingham and playwright James Graham have warned that opportunities for young people to enter the profession are
