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US screenwriter Danny Strong has been commissioned to write a new jukebox music celebrating Frank Sinatra. Called Sinatra the Musical, it is
London’s Old Vic has renewed a partnership with the Royal Bank of Canada, its main financial supporter. The not-for-profit theatre receives no
West Yorkshire Playhouse's production of The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe has broken the venue's box office records, taking more than
More than 130,000 young people will lose the option to study the arts at GCSE if the government pushes forward with plans
Almost a third of workers at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe are unpaid, new research has revealed. The results have prompted entertainment union
Cultural organisations are being urged to help shape Arts Council England's next 10-year strategy. ACE will publish its new strategy in 2019,
Having written some of musical theatre's most enduring lyrics, Sheldon Harnick has no need to worry about his legacy, but even at
To mark Leonard Bernstein's centenary, David Charles Abell will conduct performances of his works in London next weekend. He tells Nick Smurthwaite about
I was a fan of Josie Rourke and her regime at the Donmar Warehouse. She and executive director Kate Pakenham took a
Accusing any performance of Brecht's ferociously didactic Fear and Misery of the Third Reich of lacking subtlety may seem redundant. Yet while
A development initiative aimed at boosting the number of female musical theatre composers has been launched, following research that revealed the sector
John Barton spent virtually all of his long and prodigious career with the Royal Shakespeare Company, which he co-founded with Peter Hall
Camden People Theatre's feminist theatre festival Calm Down Dear gets off to a cracking start with Racheal Ofori's So Many Reasons. It's
This week's top theatre jobs and auditions on The Stage Jobs include auditions for Hamilton, assistant directors at Chichester Festival Theatre, head of scenic
Anna-Jane Casey, Fern Britton, Lorraine Bruce and Ruth Madoc are to star in a reworked version of Gary Barlow and Tim Firth's
If you're headed to the small downtown of New London, Connecticut, one of the few routes available to you is Bank Street,
We are truly blessed in Britain to live in a theatrical culture that offers us regular access to the great classics of
Harold Pinter's early play The Birthday Party is a famously murky piece of work, by turns sinister and absurd. Ian Rickson's production
John Barton, who co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company with Peter Hall, has died aged 89. Together, Barton and Hall, who died last
The Donmar Warehouse's all-female Shakespeare trilogy is to be shown on the BBC later this year. The trilogy, comprising Julius Caesar, Henry
Adam Godley, Ben Miles and Simon Russell Beale have been cast in the National Theatre's production of The Lehman Trilogy. Written by
This week Vanessa Redgrave joins The Inheritance, a two part play directed by Stephen Daldry at the Young Vic. Meanwhile Fame "
A website dedicated to composer Irving Berlin has even created to mark the 130th anniversary of his birth. The site is described
Jude Kelly is to step down as artistic director of the Southbank Centre after 12 years. She will leave in May to
The founders of theatre company Oily Cart are to step down after 36 years to make way for the "next generation of
