Thursday, February 20, 2020
Controversies have dogged Ivo van Hove’s production of West Side Story, surrounding injuries, protests, and bold cuts to the material (the dropping
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:00PMPeyvand Sadeghian’s one-woman show about her mixed British-Iranian heritage refuses to commit to any one style of performance. One moment Sadeghian is
Linked From The Stage Registration at 12:42PMThe government has confirmed it is to end freedom of movement and introduce a points-based immigration system, with industry bodies branding the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:10AMLondon performing arts school Urdang Academy is partnering with the University of Birmingham to deliver a new dance and musical theatre degree.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:01AMA national survey has revealed arts workers are regularly self-censoring their views and work, to avoid a backlash from the public, funding
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:58AMIf you’re offended by the ‘N word,’ this UK premiere of Antoinette Nwandu’s 2017 play should be approached with extreme caution. In
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:54AMGeraldine Somerville has been cast in the Royal Exchange’s production of The Glass Menagerie, 30 years after she made her debut at
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFairfield Halls’ artistic director has resigned from the job less than six months after the arts centre reopened following a £40 million
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:32AMThe Actors Centre in London has announced a new leadership team along with major changes to its programming. Amanda Davey, who was
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:32AMOriginally produced in 1973, Jean Poiret’s play La Cage aux Folles has long been overshadowed by Jerry Herman’s 1983 musical version. However
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:47AMThis collaboration between Kate Prince’s hip-hop dance company ZooNation and singer-songwriter Sting is as successful as it is surprising. The judicious selection
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:34AMIan McKellen is to feature in the first episode of a new podcast series from The Stage. The first actor to top
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:04AMLast week, Paul Woolf, chief executive of Portsmouth’s Kings Theatre, announced to the media that his venue had “taken the step to
Linked From The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, February 19, 2020
Written in 2002, A Number is often described as Caryl Churchill’s ‘cloning’ play, but it’s so much more than that. It’s as
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:14PMRaymond Gubbay has parted ways with Fiery Angel, two years after they launched a new musical entertainment company together. The music and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:54AMRoyal Ballet principals Francesca Hayward and Marcelino Sambé were among the performers given top accolades at this year’s National Dance Awards. The
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:54AMForty years ago this week, we interviewed ‘ancient acrobat’ and circus performer Johnny Hutch, who made his name performing at the Middlesbrough
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:24AMThe in-demand choreographer tells Anna Winter about her latest work The Cellist, a Royal Ballet production about the legendary Jacqueline du Pré,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:24AMKicking off a bold 20th anniversary season at the Arcola Theatre, The Cutting Edge is a meandering meditation on art, class and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 11:04AMThis poignant, anonymously authored monologue charts a woman’s troubled transition into motherhood. Everywoman explores the idea of the female experience as something
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:24AMAudience behaviour or, more accurately, audience misbehaviour, is like catnip to us theatre folk. We just love talking about it – the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 10:00AMSally Abbott’s new play, produced by Frantic Assembly and co-directed by company chief Scott Graham and Kathy Burke, comes straight from the
Linked From The Stage Registration at 09:33AMWomen will make up half of all living writers and directors working at the National Theatre from this time next year, and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:12AMPost-modern shows about Shakespeare are almost as common as the real thing these days. Cymbeline has been renamed and reclaimed as Imogen.
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:00AMKristin Scott Thomas will star in Phaedra and Jack Thorne has written a new play as part of the National Theatre’s new
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:03AMA reworked production of an opera about Jack the Ripper will feature as part of Opera North’s new season. Iain Bell’s Jack
Linked From The Stage Registration at 07:03AMThe first so-called ‘CNN opera’ was premiered in 1987, when the events it portrayed – US President Richard Nixon’s unanticipated and historic
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:43AMThe ‘geek musical’ is truly having a moment. With Dear Evan Hansen in the West End, and recent shows including Eugenius!, Loserville
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:09AMRufus Norris has signed up for a further five years as director of the National Theatre, revealing that increasing the diversity of
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:03AMSituated in the ‘Cultural Capital of the Arab World’, Sharjah Performing Arts Academy offers students world-class training in an international environment. Paul
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