1,225 stories by "Nicola Merrifield"
Hull has been named the UK City of Culture 2017. The city beat Dundee, Leicester and Swansea Bay to win the title after it submitted a bid based on the theme of "a city coming...
The Almeida Theatre production of Ghosts is set to transfer to Trafalgar Studios in London from December. Directed and adapted by Richard Eyre from Henrik Ibsen's play, the show will see Les…
Actors Lily Cole, Lesley Sharp, Jack Whitehall and Jaime Winstone are to take part in this year's 24 Hour Plays Celebrity Gala at London's Old Vic Theatre. Anthony Head will also perform …
Performing arts festival Vault is to return to the tunnels under London Waterloo station next year with stage adaptations of Ian McEwan's The Cement Garden and Hunter S Thompson's Fear and L…
Liverpool's Everyman theatre is to reopen in March next year with a production of Twelfth Night after a £28 million refurbishment. Directed by Gemma Bodinetz, the venue's artistic directo…
A campaign has been launched to create 50,000 new jobs for young people in the creative industries by 2016. The national strategy, called Building a Creative Nation, is calling upon the UK's…
Greenwich Theatre in London has announced a formal partnership with Sell a Door Theatre Company. The venue has worked with the mid-scale touring company, based in Greenwich, since 2011 when …
Theatre organisations including Paines Plough, the Royal Exchange in Manchester and the Independent Theatre Council are to host a new independent touring symposium next year. The event, whic…
Orange Tree Theatre's founding artistic director Sam Walters has unveiled his final season at the venue, which will include a production of Dion Boucicault's The School for Scheming, directe…
Rory Kinnear and Adrian Lester have been jointly awarded the best actor prize at this year's Evening Standard Theatre Awards. They have both been recognised for their performances in the Nat…
Graeae Theatre Company has launched a new writing programme for deaf and disabled writers with the National Theatre Studios, the Royal Court Theatre and the Soho Theatre. The initiative will…
The Hampstead Theatre in north London will stage two UK premieres in the new year, starring Emilia Fox and Imelda Staunton. Fox will appear in Rapture, Blister, Burn by US writer Gina Gionfr…
Children's touring company the Theatre Centre has revealed playwright Danny Braverman to be the winner of this year's Brian Way award, which recognises work for young audiences. Braverman wa…
Theatre companies including the Royal Shakespeare Company and the National Theatre of Scotland are to take part in a year of cultural exchange between the UK and Russia in 2014. The UK-Russi…
Headlong artistic director Jeremy Herrin has revealed his inaugural season, which will include new plays by Jack Thorne, Duncan Macmillan and a new adaptation of Frank Wedekind's Spring Awak…
The St James Theatre will not replace its artistic director David Gilmore when he leaves at the end of the month, the London venue has confirmed. It is also expected that the post of exec…
A new charity that provides bursaries for young people to access performing arts training has launched. The National Youth Arts Trust aims to help people aged seven to 25 years old from non-…
The Royal Court Theatre's 2014 season will feature the premiere of a play by Simon Stephens, a new show about a footballer's sex scandal starring Russell Tovey, and a series of regional co-p…
Camden Council will introduce licences for street entertainers from next year, meaning buskers could face fines of up to £1,000 if they play without one. The north London local authori…
Young actors today are entering a "narrowed" industry with fewer opportunities for work than 40 years ago, actor Zoe Wanamaker has claimed. She said this meant inexperienced performers had a…
People in the UK are less likely to have been to the theatre than their north European counterparts in the last 12 months, according to a recent report. A survey published by the European Co…
Venue operator HQ Theatres has named Gordon Millar as theatre director of the Crewe Lyceum. Millar joins from his position as producer at Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse Theatre. His work…
Around a third of performing arts organisations in England are seeing a major boost to audience levels as a result of using digital technology, a report has claimed. Figures from Nesta, whic…
Matthew Bourne and Russell Maliphant have been shortlisted for the best modern choreography prize at this year's National Dance Awards. Bourne has been selected for Sleeping Beauty, performe…
Lesley Sharp is to appear in Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey at the National Theatre in the spring. She will play Helen and is joined by Kate O'Flynn, who has been cast as Jo....
