800 stories by "Alistair Smith"
When the Oliviers changed its judging process in 2013, there were murmurs that the new system would favour the commercial over the
A victory of sorts, then, for campaigners calling for an overhaul to the licensing regime that governs the conditions under which children
The trickle of new openings gains pace with the spring season shaping up to provide some of the year’s hottest tickets, with stars of the large and small screen heading to the stage. A…
Over the last decade, there have been a growing number of theatre productions which a range of vocal protest groups have sought to prevent from taking place. Their complaints have been vario…
It is a brutal, Darwinian process. Arts organisations across the country spent the early hours of this morning nervously clicking send/receive on their emails, as they awaited the all imp…
You'll have noticed, if you have picked up this week’s print or digital edition of The Stage, the latest in a series of changes we have been making to the paper – an overhaul …
These are the times that try the souls of New York theatre critics and Tony Award nominators. Between this Sunday, when the musical If/Then opens, and April 24, when Cabaret returns to Broad…
A couple of stories from the world of comedy this week have attested to some of the do’s and (mainly) don’ts of putting together a comedy bill. Promoters Mirth Control found them…
The Australian stage musical adaptation of King Kong, announced late last year for Broadway beginning in December 2014, has been delayed. In a statement, King Kong's producers cited "the tim…
Usually, by the beginning of March, the Broadway landscape up through the Tony nomination deadline is well set in place. But, earlier this week, a late addition cropped up, thanks to the une…
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s latest musical, Stephen Ward, will close in the West End following a run of less than four months. Stephen Ward, which had been booking until May at the Aldwych T…
Nica Burns has revealed that the Apollo Theatre on Shaftesbury Avenue will reopen on March 26, having been closed since December after part of the venue’s ceiling collapsed. Burns, chi…
It wasn't unexpected, but it was still big news when producer Gerry Ryan of Global Creatures Inc. announced that the musical King Kong would make its way from Australia to Broadway in Decemb…
Young Vic artistic director David Lan has been appointed to help oversee the creation of a new performing arts centre at the World Trade Center in New York. The Performing Arts Centre at the…
The forthcoming musical adaptation of The Wind in the Willows has become the first West End show to raise £1 million using online crowdfunding technology. Jamie Hendry Productions, which …
Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s stage musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat is to be adapted into an animated feature film, it has been confirmed. Elton John's Rocket…
The Royal Shakespeare Company is to stage a double bill of Love’s Labour’s Lost and Much Ado About Nothing later this year, as part of a season commemorating the centenary of the…
After its extended run at The Public Theater last year, the David Byrne-Fatboy Slim musical Here Lies Love, about Imelda Marcos, was reported to be seeking an appropriate space for a commerc…
Philip Pullman’s Grimm Tales for Young and Old is to be staged as an immersive theatre piece at Shoreditch Town Hall this March. Adapted from Grimm’s Fairy Tales, Pullman’s…
Ticketmaster has appointed Sita McIntosh, formerly of See Tickets, to head up its theatre division. McIntosh, who was head of theatre and arts ticketing at See, is one of two new appointment…
So, the Society of London Theatre has released its 2013 results and its a tenth consecutive year of record box office, plus more attendances than ever before. I remember – about four o…
London's major commercial and subsidised theatres have reported their 10th consecutive year of record box office takings, with more people visiting theatre in the capital in 2013 than ever b…
Mark Bazeley and Kristin Davis will join Natascha McElhone in Trevor Nunn's production of Fatal Attraction at the Theatre Royal Haymarket. Davis, who is best known for her role as Charlotte …
Cameron Mackintosh has become the first British producer to be inducted into Broadway’s Theater Hall of Fame. Mackintosh is joined by this year's fellow inductees actors Cherry Jones a…
ITV has confirmed that it will broadcast a highlights programme on the night of the Olivier Awards again this year. Exact details of the broadcast have yet to be confirmed, but it follows 20…
