Olivia Colman and Idris Elba have been nominated for Royal Television Society programme awards for their work on ITV's Broadchurch and BBC1's Luther respectively. Colman is nominated in the …
Gemma Arterton is to star in a musical version of Made in Dagenham, directed by Rupert Goold. Based on the film of the same name, the show will open at the Adelphi Theatre in London...
Further previews of X Factor musical I Can’t Sing! have been cancelled, with producers blaming an “integral” part of the set that is not currently working properly. Preview…
War Horse has become the most popular production to be screened to cinemas as part of the National Theatre Live initiative, with 125,000 people in the UK alone watching last night's performa…
BBC1 is to broadcast new dramas from Lenny Henry, Mike Bartlett and Steve Pemberton, as part of a range of new commissions that will also see the channel become the exclusive home to Agatha …
Ruthie Henshall is to join the cast of Billy Elliot the Musical in the role of Mrs Wilkinson. She will join the production on May 12, nine years to the day that the show officially...
Should we have awards ceremonies for actors? This is the question that was in my mind having watched the BBC's Newswatch programme last weekend, in which several viewers wrote to complain to…
ITV commissioning editor for comedy Myfanwy Moore is to join the BBC as controller of comedy production. In her role, she will lead the Corporation's in-house comedy production department an…
Linzi Hateley is to join Brian Conley in the touring production of Barnum. As revealed by The Stage last year, Conley will take the lead in Cameron Mackintosh's and Michael Harrison's produc…
A revamped iPlayer will be launched by the BBC next month, with its head of TV content claiming it will become a "creative platform to grow new forms of drama and showcase new talent". The...
Police have arrested one of the producers behind cancelled Off-West End musical The Golden Voice on suspicion of fraud. Rob Hewitt, a co-producer of the show that was due to star Darren Day,…
A consortium of theatres in mid Wales is to lose its entire £57,000 annual grant from one of its three local authority funders from April, leading to fears of job losses at the venues. Th…
Arts Council England's funding for culture in the regions should be improved but must not come "at the cost of reducing funding in London", backstage union BECTU has warned. In its submissio…
Equity has called on Arts Council England to do more to tackle the issue of unpaid work in the culture sector, claiming action is needed before working for free becomes "so endemic that many…
Judi Dench has joined performers Ian McKellen and Sylvia Syms in donating money towards securing the future of a 150-seat theatre that has been dark for seven years. The Robin Hood Theatre, …
BBC director general Tony Hall has revealed plans for a further £100 million of savings, but has vowed to protect the Corporation's drama output under new cost-cutting plans. Hall said th…
Barking in Essex director Harry Burton is helming a new production of I Found My Horn at the Trafalgar Studios. The play, by Jasper Rees and Jonathan Guy Lewis, will run at the Trafalgar Stu…
Tim Pigott-Smith is to star in King Charles III at the Almeida Theatre. Mike Bartlett's play, which will run from April 3 to May 31, will also feature Oliver Chris, Katie Brayben, Richard Go…
Niamh Perry, a finalist in the BBC's I'd Do Anything series, is to star in a revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber's The Beautiful Game. The production will run at the Union Theatre from April 3...
I Can't Sing!, the musical inspired by The X Factor, has cancelled its first two preview shows because of "technical issues caused by the ambitious staging" of the show. In a statement, prod…
Ryan Molloy's first role after leaving the musical Jersey Boys will be in Theatre Royal Stratford East's production of Fings Ain't Wot They Used T'Be. Molloy, who leaves Jersey Boys on March…
Well known for his performances in musicals such as Les Miserables, Alfie Boe talks to Matthew Hemley about the challenges of TV acting and the extra dimension it brings to his career
Kenneth Williams has been commemorated with an English Heritage blue plaque, unveiled today on what would have been his 88th birthday. The Carry On star's plaque has been placed on the wall …
Leigh Zimmerman is to join the cast of Relative Values when it transfers to the West End in March. Zimmerman will play Miranda Frayle in Theatre Royal Bath Productions' staging of Noel Cowar…
Doctor Who actor Arthur Darvill is to star in the musical Once from March 17. He will play Guy in the show, which is directed by John Tiffany and is currently running at the Phoenix...