Leicester's Curve will host the UK premieres of two plays from India and three pieces inspired by Shakespeare as part of its first Inside Out festival next month. The festival celebrates eme…
St Pancras International station and the cafe at the National Portrait Gallery will host site-specific theatre performances in April as part of a month-long initiative based around Louisa Yo…
National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner and Royal Court artistic director Vicky Featherstone are among new appointments made by the BBC aimed at strengthening its relationship to the arts,…
Leading actors, directors and producers including Mark Rylance, David Suchet, Sonia Friedman, Josie Rourke and Richard Eyre have added their signatures to a letter praising tax breaks for th…
Sky head of entertainment Phil Edgar-Jones has been appointed director of Sky Arts. He replaces James Hunt, who stepped down last week after more than four years running the channel. Edgar-J…
Jason Donovan is to star in a revival of Irving Berlin's Annie Get Your Gun. The musical will tour the UK from May 12, opening at the Manchester Opera House. It will also star Emma…
Rodgers and Hammerstein's Carousel is to receive a "bold new interpretation" at the Arcola Theatre in London. It is being produced by company Morphic Graffiti, which staged Jekyll and Hyde a…
Musical Saturday Night Fever is to tour the UK from November this year, with a new production directed by Ryan McBryde and choreographed by Andrew Wright. The show, a co-production between T…
BBC2 drama Peaky Blinders and ITV's Broadchurch lead the nominees for this year's BAFTA TV Craft Awards, with six and five nominations respectively. Peaky Blinders, which starred Cillian Mur…
Gemma Arterton and Stephen Mangan will host this year’s Olivier Awards on April 13. The ceremony takes place at the Royal Opera House, and the awards will feature a voice over provided…
Bend It Like Beckham director Gurinder Chadha has compared West End theatre to the film industry, claiming producers are looking for shows that can be "easily marketed". Chadha, who is curre…
Jerry Springer the Opera creator Richard Thomas has revealed he is working with the National Theatre on a new musical set within an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting. Thomas, whose controversial …
Hampstead Theatre's production of Good People is to replace The Full Monty at the Noel Coward Theatre. David Lindsay-Abaire's play will run at the venue for 10 weeks from April 10, with pres…
TV series All Creatures Great and Small has been adapted for the stage, starring former Coronation Street's Oliver Mellor and Steps singer Lee Latchford-Evans. The TV series has been adapted…
The National Theatre has announced a major mutli-year partnership with Bank of America Merrill Lynch, which will see the two organisations working together on the theatre's NT Future initiat…
The Royal Shakespeare Company has announced a new partnership with leading video producer and distributor Opus Arte to release recordings of productions featured in its Live from Stratford-u…
Lenny Henry wants to see the BBC ring-fence money to produce content that makes better use of talent from a black, Asian or minority ethnic background. In a speech given this week at BAFTA, …
Julie Atherton, Jenna Russell, Janie Dee, David Bedella and Douglas Hodge are lined up to appear as part of this year's London Festival of Cabaret. As previously reported by The Stage, the 2…
BBC Radio 4 is to broadcast a spin-off of the popular television drama Silk, with actors including Neil Stuke and Miranda Raison reprising their roles from the BBC1 series. Silk: The Clerks'…
Actors and writers are demanding urgent talks with BBC Wales and Welsh broadcaster S4C over plans to cut episodes of the long-running TV soap Pobol y Cwm. Both Equity and the Writers' Guild …
Thriller Live has extended its West End run until April next year. The show, at the Lyric Theatre in London, opened in 2009 and is now booking until April 19, 2015. It was previously booking…
West End musical Matilda is to hold a relaxed performance in June, aimed at people with autism and learning difficulties. The Royal Shakespeare Company, which produces the show at the Cambri…
The BBC is to revive its Comedy Playhouse strand " which discovered sitcoms such as Steptoe and Son and Last of the Summer Wine " with a new season of one-off comedies featuring actors inclu…
West End musical The Commitments has extended its run at the Palace Theatre to April 2015. The show, directed by Jamie Lloyd, opened in October last year and will now run until April 19, 201…
Olivia Colman has won the best actress prize at the Royal Television Society Programme Awards for the second year running. Colman took the award for her work on Channel 4's Run and ITV's Bro…