Peter Glanville, currently artistic director/chief executive at the Little Angel Theatre in Islington, has been appointed as the new artistic director of Polka Theatre in Wimbledon. Glanvill…
Local authority support for culture will fall by a further £124 million in 2013/14, according to figures published by the Department for Communities and Local Government. DCLG has just pu…
Simon Presswell has been appointed as managing director of Ticketmaster in the United Kingdom. Presswell will be responsible for the UK operation of the business which includes more than 500…
Peter Capaldi has been named as the new Doctor in BBC One TV series Doctor Who and will succeed Matt Smith in the role from this Christmas. Capaldi is best known for his performances as...
Olivia Williams is to star in a new production of Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage, to be staged at the St James Theatre in London next month. Trevor Nunn will direct Joanna Mur…
Equity is launching legal action against the producer of delayed off-West End musical The Golden Voice, in a bid to claim back tens of thousands of pounds in unpaid cast wages. The show's op…
Madness musical Our House is to be revived in a new actor-musician version of the show this autumn. The production will open at the New Wolsey Theatre in Ipswich on September 24, following p…
Jez Butterworth’s 1995 play Mojo is to be revived in the West End, in a new production starring Brendan Coyle, Rupert Grint, Daniel Mays and Ben Whishaw. The show will be directed by I…
Simon Callow is to write and star in a new one-man show about composer Richard Wagner, which will be staged at the Royal Opera House this September. Inside Wagner’s Head is Callow̵…
Three quarters of the capital's small theatres require significant upgrade or renovation, with most having raised no money at all towards the necessary refurbishment work, according to a rep…
Arts Council England's latest staff restructure has cost nearly £10 million, the body's annual review has revealed. Figures published for the first time as part of ACE's annual review for…
Arts Council England has revealed that it will open applications for a new three-year funding round in January, warning that some organisations will be cut due to a reduction in central gove…
Producers of new British musical The Golden Voice have insisted the show will still go ahead at the Arts Theatre in London, despite having to postpone its opening for a second time. The musi…
London’s Menier Chocolate Factory is to host the European premiere of US play The Lyons, which ran on Broadway in 2012. The dark comedy, written by Nicky Silver, will run at the Southw…
Enta Ticketing Solutions, which supplies ticket software to West End and regional theatres, has been acquired by Italian company Best Union SpA. Enta was formerly part of the Seatem Group, b…
Haworth Tompkins has won two awards for its theatre design work at the New London Architecture Awards. The architecture firm’s work on Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre won the p…
Loretta Tomasi has revealed that she is to step down as chief executive of English National Opera later this year. Tomasi leaves after ten years with the company and seven as chief executive…
The body of Paul Bhattacharjee has been found at Splash Point cliffs in East Sussex. The body was found last Friday, July 12 by Sussex Police, who contacted officers investigating Battacharj…
The body of Richard Gent has been discovered in woods near his home in north London, following the young actor's disappearance last year. Gent, who was 27 when he went missing, had worked fo…
Harvey Goldsmith has been appointed non-executive director of Dutch producer Imagine Nation, with plans to recreate the company's large-scale, immersive theatre shows in London and internati…
South London fringe venue Omnibus Arts is to host its first theatre performances this month with a series of pre-Edinburgh previews of Hope Light and Nowhere. The play, written by Andrew She…
Felicity Kendal and Simon Callow are to star in a touring revival of Chin-Chin, François Billetdoux's 1959 comedy. The production, which will be directed by Michael Rudman in an adapta…
Sheffield Theatres’ planned tour of A Passionate Woman by Kay Mellor has been postponed, after its star Lynda Bellingham was diagnosed with cancer. The tour, a co-production with David…
Bertie Carvel, Tony Gardner and Marilyn Cutts are among more than 40 union members elected to stand on Equity committees for the first time. Results of the election were published this week,…
Father Ted writer Graham Linehan and Peep Show creator Sam Bain will be among the tutors on a new comedy course launched by the National Film and Television School in Buckinghamshire. The 18…