The Menier Chocolate Factory is to stage the European premiere of The Color Purple musical. It will open at the Southwark venue on July 5 and run until September 14, with press night on July…
Independent producers secured 99% of the drama hours available through the BBC's Window of Creative Competition initiative, a report has revealed. The WoCC was established in 2007 to ensure …
Sheffield Theatres and Staffordshire's New Vic Theatre have been hit with cuts totalling more than £120,000, after their respective local authorities approved budget proposals. Recently n…
West End musical Jersey Boys, which celebrates its fifth birthday this month, has extended its booking period until March next year. The show, at the Prince Edward Theatre, is now booking un…
Hull Truck Theatre founder Mike Bradwell is to direct his first main house play for the organisation in more than 30 years, with a production of Tim Fountain's Queen of the Nile. Fountain's …
Olivia Colman, Anne Marie Duff and Sheridan Smith will go head to head for the title of best actress at this year's Royal Television Society Programme Awards. Colman and Duff are nominated f…
A dispute between union BECTU and Ambassador Theatre Group that saw theatres around the UK threatened with strike action has been resolved. The two parties met yesterday and were able to set…
The Old Vic is to open up its talent development arm to people of all ages for the first time, as part of an overhaul which will also see the theatre launch a space dedicated...
Marti Pellow is to play Che in a new touring production of Evita. Bill Kenwright's production of the Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice musical will open at the New Wimbledon Theatre on May 15…
Trevor Nunn is to direct Patricia Hodge, Caroline Quentin and Rory Bremner in Noel Coward's Relative Values. The production forms part of the Theatre Royal Bath's summer season, which will a…
Birmingham Royal Ballet and English Touring Opera are among the organisations that have been awarded funding to host a music fellow, as part of an initiative launched by the BBC Performing A…
Former EastEnders actor Sid Owen is to make his musical theatre debut in a new sixties-themed production called Carnaby Street. The show has been written by music agent Carl Leighton-Pope an…
Jennifer Ellison has criticised the media for focusing on performers' weight and appearance, claiming she would be "anorexic by now" if she did not have the support of her family and friends…
West End shows such as The Lion King and Wicked could be disrupted by strike action, after talks between union BECTU and Ambassador Theatre Group over working conditions for theatre staff br…
Downton Abbey producer Carnival Films has been forced to make a U-turn over plans to underpay extras in the popular ITV series. The production company had been offering extras working on the…
Frances Ruffelle is in her first week of playing Edith Piaf at Leicester's Curve. She tells Matt Hemley why she considers herself to be more actor-singer than a singer in her own right
Staff working for the New Alexandra Theatre in Birmingham fear they are at risk of losing their jobs after Ambassador Theatre Group launched a consultation about a "restructure" at the venue…
Producers of West End musical Singin' in the Rain are preparing to close the show in August, ahead of a planned nationwide tour of the UK. The Chichester Festival Theatre production opened a…
The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of Merrily We Roll Along is to transfer to the West End. Stephen Sondheim and George Furth's musical, directed by Maria Friedman, is currently playi…
Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace is being adapted into a six-part series for the BBC. Andrew Davies is writing the BBC1 drama, which is being made through BBC Wales. BBC1 controller Danny Cohen s…
Matthew Hemley talks to legendary US director and choreographer Bob Avian
Chichester Festival Theatre was the big winner at this year's Whatsonstage Awards, scooping a total of six prizes. The West End transfer of the theatre's production of Sweeney Todd won five …
Actor Ray Winstone has said he is "sad and surprised" that a theatre school he attended in the 70s is facing closure. Corona Theatre School, in Middlesex, was founded in 1948 but has announc…
Former CBBC head Damian Kavanagh is to replace Liam Keelan as controller of daytime at the BBC. He has been named as Keelan's replacement just six months after he left his post as CBBC contr…
The number of paid ushers at Cardiff's St David's Hall and New Theatre is at risk of being cut, under money-saving proposals being considered by the city's council. Cardiff Council's budget …