The Full Monty writer Simon Beaufoy has hit out at the show's producer, claiming he did not come to the production or talk to the cast and crew ahead of the announcement that the play…
Lenny Henry has called on the BBC to ring-fence money for TV programmes where at least 50% of the production teams and casts are black, Asian or minority ethnic. In a speech delivered at BAF…
A crowdfunding campaign has been launched to help fund a new musical based on David Baddiel's film The Infidel. The musical has words and lyrics by Baddiel and music by Erran Baron Cohen. It…
Ken Dodd has beaten fellow comics Jasper Carrott, Lenny Henry, Nicholas Parsons, Jennifer Saunders and Victoria Wood to be crowned Legend of Comedy. The comic was awarded the title as part o…
Performances at Derby's Assembly Rooms have been cancelled up to and including May 11 following a fire at the venue on Friday. The fire was in the plant room on the roof of the building's...
A new musical based on Oscar Wilde's De Profundis will premiere at the Leicester Square Theatre in May after winning the venue's inaugural New Musical Project competition. The show is writte…
Writers Chris Bush and Matthew Winkworth have won the inaugural Perfect Pitch award, which sees them awarded £12,000 to complete a full draft of a new musical and receive mentorship from …
A producer who left performers unpaid for a Glenn Miller musical that toured the UK in 2013 has been criticised for remounting the same show with a new cast this year. Bugle Boy was cancelle…
DC Moore, whose playwriting credits include The Empire for the Royal Court, has penned a comedy drama for Channel 4 called Cut. The six-part series explores the lives of a group of civil ser…
When ITV starts broadcasting new drama The Widower on Monday, viewers will be watching a series based on real (and harrowing) events. The drama, starring Reece Shearsmith, is about convicted…
Broadway musical Memphis will open at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London this October, starring Beverley Knight. Knight, who is currently leading the cast of The Bodyguard in the West End, wi…
Fame Forever, a sequel to the popular stage musical Fame, is to receive its professional world premiere with a fully staged West End performance and a UK tour. Composed by Steve Margoshes, w…
Emerging comedy writers are able to access advice on how to write for the genre in a special ebook published by the BBC. Called Writing for Radio Comedy, the book features clips, videos and …
West End stars Louise Dearman and Willemijn Verkaik are to join former Steps star Faye Tozer for a charity concert next month. The event is called Wow, Here Come the Girls and will run at...
Jamie Lloyd has revealed plans for a second season of plays at the Trafalgar Studios, London. The director said the new season of Trafalgar Transformed " running for a year from this summer …
Charity Stage One has awarded £50,000 from its Start-up Investment Fund to emerging producer Stephen McGill. The money will be used by McGill to co-produce the West End transfer of Chiche…
Queen musical We Will Rock You is to close in the West End after 12 years. The musical, written by Ben Elton, will end its run at the Dominion Theatre on May 31 after 4,600...
Channel 4's quota for producing television in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland is to be tripled, resulting in a £12 million increase in the broadcaster's spend in the nations. Media r…
I'm gay, and I happen to like musicals. But " and this might be hard to believe " not all gay men do. My partner doesn't like them, for example, and would probably rather go...
Reece Shearsmith, who starred in the West End production of Betty Blue Eyes, has claimed the musical's title and marketing were to blame for its early closure. The actor appeared in the show…
Dawn French is to reprise her role as Geraldine Granger from The Vicar of Dibley as part of a special BBC Radio 4 event that will see popular characters "invade the station and take over...
Songwriters George Stiles and Anthony Drewe and West End performer Gavin Creel are to appear as part of Singular Sensations at the Charing Cross Theatre. Singular Sensations, presented by Ed…
Channel 4 is to mark same-sex marriage becoming legal in England and Wales by broadcasting a gay wedding that will be staged as a musical. As part of Our Gay Wedding " the Musical, grooms...
Director Jonathan Miller will debate the future of opera on television as part of a season at the British Film Institute. The season is called Opera on TV and forms part of the BFI's annual.…
Former Friends actor Matthew Perry will make his UK TV comedy debut in a programme for Sky Arts' Playhouse Presents season, which will also feature Jo Brand, Billie Piper, Richard Wilson and…