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Chanel 4 arts commissioner Tabitha Jackson, whose most recent credits include The Sound of Musicals, is leaving the broadcaster to join the Sundance Institute. Based in the US, Jackson will …
Screenwriter Peter Moffat and playwright David Edgar were among the winners at this year's Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards. Moffat won in the best TV drama series category for Silk, s…
Brian Conley is to star in a UK tour of the musical Barnum, to be co-produced by Cameron Mackintosh. Mackintosh has teamed up with producer Michael Harrison to tour the musical, which will o…
Winners of the Channel 4 Playwrights' Scheme have been revealed, with the successful applicants receiving a £7,000 bursary and a year-long placement with a theatre. Each of the winners wi…
Sue Townsend's The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole Aged 13¾ has been turned into a musical, following a commission by Leicester's Curve and the Royal and Derngate in Northampton. The two venu…
Disabled actors will meet next month with casting directors from broadcasters including the BBC and ITV, as part of a special audition event aimed at increasing the onscreen portrayal of peo…
Fringe venue the Landor Theatre will host the UK premiere of the musical Meet Me in St Louis next month. The musical, based on the film of the same name, has music and lyrics by...
The Goodale brothers discuss their new play, Perfect Nonsense, based on the Jeeves and Wooster stories of PG Wodehouse
Lee Hall's stage adaptation of the film Shakespeare in Love will open at the Noel Coward Theatre next year. The production, adapted from the screenplay by Marc Norman and Tom Stoppard, will …
Stiles and Drewe musical Betty Blue Eyes is to tour the UK next year. The show, based on the Alan Bennett film A Private Function, will be directed by Daniel Buckroyd, who is artistic direct…
London fringe venue the King's Head Theatre has revealed the shortlist for its inaugural Adrian Pagan playwright award. Formed by the theatre in memory of stage manager turned playwright Adr…
This year's Red Planet Prize, an annual search to find new television writing talent, has opened for applications. The prize is run by production company Red Planet Pictures in association w…
Bristol Old Vic, the Soho Theatre and the Watermill Theatre will each host a composer for six months as part of the Cameron Mackintosh Resident Composer Scheme, which has revealed the next t…
Ruth Mackenzie has been appointed to lead the development of the next phase of The Space, an online digital arts platform run by Arts Council England and the BBC. The Space is due to relaunc…
ITV has commissioned a fifth series of Downton Abbey. The broadcaster said audience figures for the fourth series, which ended this weekend, had averaged at 11.8 million viewers. It claimed …
New Stiles and Drewe musical The Wind in the Willows has become the latest production to raise investment through crowdfunding, with its producer claiming the move will change the way West E…
Janie Dee, Caroline Sheen, David Bedella, Daniel Crossley and Damian Humbley will star in the London premiere of Stephen Sondheim's Putting it Together at the St James Theatre. The show prev…
Frances Ruffelle and Isy Suttie are to star in new musical The A-Z of Mrs P at the Southwark Playhouse next year. It has a book by Diane Samuels and music and lyrics by Gwyneth...
Reece Shearsmith is to star in Cool Rider, the Grease 2 concert that takes place at the Lyric Theatre in London next year. Shearsmith, known for his television work in The League of Gentleme…
ITV has commissioned a six-part series about a vicar who turns investigator when one of his parishioners dies in suspicious circumstances. Grantchester is based on a book by James Runcie cal…
Musical theatre performer Louise Dearman is to embark on her first UK tour from February next year. The It's Time tour will see Dearman, who is currently playing Elphaba in Wicked, perform m…
Newbury's Corn Exchange and Watermill Theatre are facing cuts totaling £180,000 to their funding, under proposals being considered by the local council. The Corn Exchange is facing the gr…
Playwright Carla Grauls has won this year's Nick Darke award, a £6,000 prize that celebrates the "best writing for stage, screen and radio" on an environmental theme. Grauls, who is the c…
Sadler's Wells generated £23.8 million in revenue in 2012/13, up from £22.1 million in 2011/12. In its annual report, published today, it said it received £2.2 million from Arts Cou…
Sadler's Wells has revealed plans to establish a fourth performance space to host "cutting edge contemporary work", as part of its vision for the next 10 years. This also includes a commitme…
