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Director Max Elton is working on David Ireland's new comedy The End of Hope, which is playing at London's Soho Theatre. He
Working front of house is easy: it pays the bills, the shifts are short and, as an actor, it leaves my days
British theatre has changed radically during the past 20 years, mostly for the better. Curiously one of the things that has not
Mark Rylance, Zoe Wanamaker and Maxine Peake are among theatre figures endorsing a campaign to withdraw actors' pensions from fossil fuel investments.
Earlier this week, campaign group Act for Change and The Stage hosted a conference exploring diversity in criticism, discussing the landscape today,
Kenneth MacMillan is known as a master storyteller. But even a plotless one-act ballet like Concerto shows how skilled a choreographer the
Staged on Tanya McCallin’s lavish funereal set, David McVicar’s production of La Traviata, revived by Marie Lambert, gets straight to the tragedy of the courtesan
From Shakespearean tragedies to slasher horrors, realistic stage blood is a must for shows that aim to shock, disgust and thrill. Industry
A London theatre company has come under fire for mocking working-class culture with a £55-a-head Cockney-themed immersive Christmas supper club. Zebedee Theatre's
The news this week that Stomp is finally to stop banging its drum (and other random objects) after a 15-year West End
Take three female choreographers and set them the challenge of interpreting the same piece of music in their own fashion. Beethoven's Die
Although its themes of corruption in high places and moral turpitude are perennially relevant, Brecht and Weill's densely packed hybrid of opera
The Wexford Festival made no secret of the fact that owing to the severe effects of hurricane Ophelia, the company lost the
Rose Theatre Kingston in London has announced that Mel Giedroyc is to star in its production of Much Ado About Nothing, which
Three figures face the audience from a circle of pebbles, shells, dried seaweed and other sea debris. Mab (Jessica Carroll), clad in
Meera Syal is to join the cast of Annie for the duration of its run at London's Piccadilly Theatre. She will take
Mentioned in passing at the end of this column last week was the opening of The Prince of Egypt, a new stage
This week’s production news includes a UK tour of Madagascar the musical and the casting of Ian McKellen as the voice of
Casting directory Spotlight has announced a partnership with the membership body that represents voice artists allowing them to subscribe to the castings
Theatre fans who identify as liberal can be "incredibly elitist" in their attitude towards musical theatre, director Dominic Cooke has claimed. Cooke
The creative sector in the UK is facing a "major skills crisis" if freedom of movement ends post-Brexit without a replacement that
In the late 1970s, punk band Oxy and the Morons nearly made it, coming within a pen-stroke of signing with record label EMI, before
What an awful moment for Venus in Fur to arrive in the West End. With stories of Hollywood’s deep-seated misogyny dominating the
A new award for backstage journalism, supported by The Stage, has been launched in memory of former UK Theatre president Ken Bennett-Hunter.
Ibsen's The Lady from the Sea is a strange and slippery play. Having been recently appointed as artistic director of the Young
