The BBC Trust has tasked new director general Tony Hall with achieving "new peaks of distinctiveness" across the Corporation's output, including improving the variety and quality of drama on…
Marc Bolan musical 20th Century Boy will tour the UK from April next year, prior to a planned West End run. The musical is based on an idea by Brian Dunham, Colin Giffin and Nicky...
Imelda Staunton and Michael Ball are to star in a musical TV drama based on Victoria Wood's stage play That Day We Sang. The 90-minute BBC2 drama is called Tubby and Enid and will be...
Stand up Steve Bugeja has won this year's BBC New Comedy award. Bugeja beat five other finalists to win the prize, which sees him awarded £1,000 as well as development and guidance from t…
Stephen Schwartz musical Godspell is to be performed in concert at the Lyric Theatre in London. The event will be staged on May 19, 2014 in aid of Make-a-Wish Foundation, which provides oppo…
Leicester Square Theatre has revealed the six finalists in its New Musical Project. The initiative aims to discover, develop and produce new musical theatre writing talent. Composers were in…
Playwrights from the East Midlands have the chance to win £1,000 and a year of support and mentoring from theatre professionals as part of a new scheme set up by Leicester's Curve. The Cu…
Janie Dee, David Bedella and Samantha Spiro are to perform as part of a concert celebrating the music of Jule Styne, Jerry Herman and Stephen Sondheim. The line-up for the show, called Jule,…
Video-sharing site Dailymotion is offering performers and theatre companies free use of studios and editing suites to produce filmed content that can be shared online. The French-based compa…
EastEnders actor Jessie Wallace is to star in a new production of the Lionel Bart musical Fings Ain't What They Used T’Be at the Theatre Royal Stratford East. She will appear alongside…
Having recently appeared in the National's 50th birthday celebration, Linzi Hateley tells Matthew Hemley about her upcoming cabaret performance
Warner Bros UK has revealed the first successful applicants to its Creative Talent scheme, which includes 11 people being given scholarships at higher education institutions " including RADA…
Musical theatre performers often speak of a snobbery that exists in areas of the industry, which they claim prevents them getting opportunities to cross into other areas " such as straight p…
Production companies and broadcasters are to be challenged over their "indefensible practices" of asking writers to work for free as part of a campaign aimed at cracking down on unpaid jobs …
Frantic Assembly, Bristol Old Vic and the Royal Exchange in Manchester are among the recipients of a BBC grants scheme that has just awarded more than £430,000 to theatres organisations a…
Taunton's Brewhouse Theatre is set to reopen in April next year following a year of being dark. The venue went into administration in February, with Taunton Deane Borough Council later buyin…
Sam Mendes' Neal Street Productions has revealed its next musical theatre projects will be completely original shows that are not based on existing source material. Caro Newling, who oversee…
Actors attending auditions for television commercials are being asked increasingly "inappropriate and intrusive" questions that have no bearing on their ability to do the job, Equity has war…
Cheltenham Everyman Theatre creative director Paul Milton has warned of a crisis in the regions, claiming new writing in particular is at risk because of low audience attendance and reduced …
Jerry Mitchell is to direct a London reading of a musical based on the 1999 film But I'm a Cheerleader. The reading will take place on December 6, with a cast including Hannah Waddingham, Ni…
BBC1 is to screen a one-off drama about comedy duo Laurel and Hardy. The 90-minute biopic, called Stan and Ollie, is written by Jeff Pope, who penned Mrs Biggs for ITV. It is based around...
Jo Brand, Miranda Hart, Vicki Pepperdine and Zawe Ashton will battle it out for the title of best TV comedy actress at this year's British Comedy Awards. Brand and Pepperdine have both been …
A crowdfunding campaign for new musical Happy Days has met its £250,000 target, in what its producer claims is a first for a commercial theatre production. The initiative to raise the mon…
Russ Abbot, Stephanie Beacham, Alison Steadman and June Whitfield are to star in a new BBC1 series called Grey Mates, which revolves around three newly retired couples. The six-part comedy a…
Lyric Theatre, London : Julia Donaldson's book is brought lovingly and imaginatively to life in Tall Stories' stage version of The Gruffalo - a three-hander that buzzes with energy…