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It's funny how plays morph over time. Aside from the new cast, Headlong's touring production of People, Places and Things is pretty
This week a new musical called The Band based around the 90s pop repertoire of Take That opened in Manchester, ahead
Watching live theatre can stimulate a person’s cardiovascular system as much as nearly half an hour of exercise, according to a new
John Doyle's Off-Broadway production of Shakespeare's As You Like It is a mild-mannered affair " a passable production of limited enchantments. It's
To paraphrase the most famous line in Sunset Boulevard, it’s not that the show that has got smaller, it’s the performance that has
This week in production news Mark Gatiss is to star in the Nottingham Playhouse’s The Madness of King George III, and Patti
The company set up to deliver Hull UK City of Culture 2017 has announced it will carry on as a national arts
Playwright Peter Nichols has said that regional arts journalism is "critical" for emerging theatre talent. Nichols was speaking in conversation with director
We’ve already had one Take That jukebox musical: in 2008, the ill-fated Never Forget had a brief West End run before sinking
Olivia Colman has revealed that she underwent cognitive hypnotherapy to combat stage fright before her first public performance in Mosquitoes at the
Ghosts, dreams, memories and the masks we wear to present our various selves every day: there are more characters drifting through this
Arts organisations are becoming less experimental and more focused with their use of digital technology, a survey has revealed. The Digital Culture
Hofesh Shechter's dance company has developed a house agreement with Equity that pledges to champion ethical employment in the dance sector. Hofesh
James Norton and Imogen Poots have been announced to star in a new season at the Donmar Warehouse. Belleville, a new play
Three years ago, when this adaptation of Charlotte Bronte’s novel premiered in Bristol before transferring to the National, it stood on a
Actor, pianist and writer Hershey Felder specialises in stage portrayals of Western music's big figures. With the likes of Gershwin, Chopin and
Designer Tom Scutt will curate a new week-long design festival at London's Donmar Warehouse. Donmar on Design, which runs at the theatre's
This week's top theatre jobs on The Stage Jobs include house manager for the Victoria Palace Theatre, head of stage for Theatre Royal Stratford
Anger is like an infection in Heroine. It seeps into people compromised by loss or grief and poisons their best intentions into
Websites fall over themselves to be first with the news, though of course nowadays a piece of breaking news can get amplified
Who are the most important people working each night in the theatre? The box office, ushers, actors and bar staff. They are
Once described as 'the English Chekhov', the playwright fell out of favour in the 1950s " despite being responsible for two of the
The Stage newspaper comes out once a week and is brimming with industry news, advice, analysis and reviews from all over the
New artistic director Adam Penford is looking forward to putting the Nottingham Playhouse back on the map. He tells Lyn Gardner about
Contact Theatre in Manchester has been given £600,000 grant to develop a new venue dedicated to investigating theatre's impact on health and
