Thursday, January 2, 2014
Long-running musical The Lion King was the most successful show on Broadway in 2013, taking almost $97 million (£58.7 million) in ticket sales in its 16th year on the Great White Way. The a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMWednesday, January 1, 2014
Stars of theatre, television and the concert hall have been recognised in a New Year honours list that sees choreographer Gillian Lynne and actors Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury appointe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMSaturday, December 28, 2013
A theatre director has been arrested in Paris after driving his car into the gates of the French president’s official residence. Italian-born Attilio Maggiulli said he had deliberately cra…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, December 24, 2013
Addison Cresswell, the agent and producer who was named the most powerful man in comedy last year, has died at the age of 53. With his company Off the Kerb, Cresswell represented many of the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:16AMMonday, December 23, 2013
Increased performances and audience numbers together with a 71% increase in income from sponsorship and donations gave English National Opera a 12% boost in total income to just over £40 mi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:04AMFriday, December 20, 2013
Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has announced she is to co-produce a new stage play featuring the early years of the boy wizard with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. In an annou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMWednesday, December 18, 2013
Ivor Novello’s last musical, Valley of Song, is to receive its professional world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in January as part of the venue’s Celebrating British Music Theatre s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMMonday, December 16, 2013
Eight times Oscar nominated and an international star on both stage and screen, Peter O’Toole was one of the most gifted and charismatic actors of his generation. Tall, blond, piercingly b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:05AMThe future of Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud Theatre has been thrown into doubt with news that the Surrey town’s borough council has proposed to reduce, and possibly end, its funding for the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:03AMPolice in Northern Ireland have issued an appeal for witnesses after a bomb explosion close to Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre on Friday night led to the cancellation of a performance b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMSunday, December 15, 2013
Peter O’Toole, who announced his retirement from acting in July last year, has died at the age of 81. His death in London’s Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening after a long illness w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:36PMSaturday, December 14, 2013
Friday, December 13, 2013
Encore Tickets, the UK’s leading independent supplier of tickets for theatres, visitor attractions and restaurants, has been sold by current backers ISIS Equity Partners to the private equ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMThursday, December 12, 2013
Anne Barton was one of the most formidable scholars of her generation. She offered revealing new insights into the work of Byron, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, and was equally perceptive about…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:02PMA £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July. The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:18AMWednesday, December 11, 2013
After graduating from Rose Bruford College in 1964 and enjoying an active career as a director and teacher, Malcolm Morrison returned to the Kent training academy to become its head of actin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30PMPlans for a film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat have been confirmed by the show’s composer. In an interview on BBC’s The…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMSaturday, December 7, 2013
A recent European court ruling highlights how musical homage can mean walking a legal tightrope. Michael Quinn investigates
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:15AMTuesday, December 3, 2013
Five Broadway theatres reported new house records for income from ticket sales for performances leading up to last weekend’s Thanksgiving celebrations. Great White Way veteran The Lion Kin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMFriday, November 29, 2013
Lewis Collins, best known as the swaggering tough-guy cop Brodie in the hit 1970s crime series The Professionals, has died at the age of 67. His death at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:52AMMonday, November 25, 2013
Increased ticket sales and sponsorship helped London’s Southbank Centre post a marginal 1.3% increase in income to £42.6 million in the year to the end of March, helping to compensate for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMThursday, November 21, 2013
Few people could claim to be a confidante of the obsessively private, prickly and sharp-tongued Kenneth Williams. Fewer still to have received a marriage proposal from him. Annette Kerr enjo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMNorthern Ireland’s culture minister Caral Ni Chuilin has announced the formation of a new company with a £2 million budget to build on the legacy of Derry-Londonderry’s year as the UK�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMIndelibly associated with the Oscar-winning song The Windmills of Your Mind, Noel Harrison had been performing the Michel Legrand-penned theme to the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair just h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:22AMWednesday, November 20, 2013
Considered by Mel Brooks to be the funniest person he’d ever met, and a member of both the early English Stage Company at the Royal Court and the inaugural National Theatre company, Barbar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMITV Studios, the commercial broadcaster’s in-house production and acquisition arm, saw revenues increase by 11% to £555 million in the nine months to September 11. Growth in ITV’s onlin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:36AMFriday, November 15, 2013
The Bristol Old Vic – the UK’s oldest continually working theatre – has revealed plans for a “stunning and dramatic” £12 million refurbishment of the grade I-listed venue’s fron…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:15AMWednesday, November 13, 2013
The tender process for the £11 million contract to re-build Belfast’s Lyric Theatre may have been “rigged and manipulated” a report by the Northern Ireland Assembly’s spending watch…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMTuesday, November 12, 2013
As a renowned translator of contemporary German plays, the contribution of Anthony Vivis to popularising one of the most vibrant and searching strands of 20th-century theatre did much to enr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AMTuesday, October 29, 2013
The 2014 Adelaide Festival will include four world premieres, 29 Australian premieres and 1,000 performers from 29 countries with theatre and dance to the fore. It will be the second program…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMFriday, October 25, 2013
A £4 million concert space built to house concerts during Derry-Londonderry’s City of Culture celebrations is to be demolished in January at a cost of nearly £450,000. The decision to cl…
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