Leicester's Curve has announced its fifth birthday season will include Martin McDonagh's play The Beauty Queen of Leenane and a new production of musical Chicago, both directed by artistic d…
Park Theatre in north London launches tomorrow with the opening of These Shining Lives by Melanie Marnich, after its artistic director and architect visited more than 35 theatres across the …
Janthi Mills has been named Hull Truck Theatre's new executive director. She joins the venue this August from her current role as general manager of the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry. Her pre…
Sadler's Wells' 2013 autumn season will include world premieres from Wayne McGregor's Random Dance and Rambert Dance Company. Atomos, choreographed by McGregor, is inspired by the structure …
Susan Coffer has been named executive director of Northern Stage in Newcastle. In this newly created position, Coffer will work alongside incoming artistic director Lorne Campbell. Previousl…
A new theatre in Brighton has opened this week in an abandoned chapel to "fill a gap in the market" for mid-sized venues hosting professional productions in the town. Emporium, which is loca…
Alexandra Palace has been given around £850,000 from the Heritage Lottery Fund to develop its plans for regenerating the site, which includes restoration of its Victorian theatre. The mon…
Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon, who starred in the original Broadway production of The Scottsboro Boys, will return to the musical in the Young Vic's production later this year. Doming…
The Union Theatre in south London has been saved from closure after its owner, Network Rail, withdrew its application to the local council to change the site into offices. However, other bus…
Theatre companies DV8 and Tamasha and membership organisation Dance UK are among the successful groups to receive money from Arts Council England's £7 million Catalyst funding scheme. DV8…
Young person's arts venue Contact has appointed Matt Fenton as its artistic director and chief executive. Fenton will take up his new joint role at the Manchester-based organisation from Sep…
The world premiere of Simon Stephens' play Blindsided will be presented at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre next year as part of the venue's winter season. Described as an "unexpected and…
The creators of Tesco's Clubcard scheme have announced that they are branching out into the cultural sector, claiming that better use of audience data could help unlock £250 million of co…
Rambert Dance Company has sold its current building in west London to an independent cinema group. If successful in its planning application to local council London Borough of Hounslow, Pict…
Talawa Theatre Company will revive artistic director Michael Buffong's 2012 National Theatre production of Moon on a Rainbow Shawl as part of its new 2013/2014 season. The play, which is wri…
Citizens Theatre in Glasgow, Opera North in Leeds and Sherman Cymru in Cardiff are among five arts venues to receive £500,000 each towards expanding their audiences. The Royal Liverpool P…
Chronic underinvestment in historic West End theatres should be investigated by the government as a "matter of urgency", according to a report looking into the problems affecting the e…
Choreographer Peter Schaufuss's Hamlet, which was due to run at the Bloomsbury Theatre in London later this month, has been cancelled. A spokeswoman for the show confirmed that "due to techn…
Ian Kelly has been awarded this year's Theatre Book Prize for his biography of playwright Samuel Foote. He was presented with the prize for his book, Mr Foote's Other Leg, at the London Pall…
London fringe venue Theatre503 will present a collection of plays inspired by the life and death of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher next month. The series of new short plays, entitle…
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has extended its booking period at the Apollo Theatre in the West End until autumn 2014. The National Theatre production was originally book…
The Georgian Theatre Royal in Richmond has launched a fundraising appeal to save it from closure. The grade-I listed building, which was built in 1788, needs more than £100,000 to secure …
The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland has been awarded £1.5 million from the Scottish Funding Council to provide free performing arts training for children from poorer backgrounds. The sche…
English National Opera has claimed it has reduced its £2 million deficit by around two thirds. The company's accounts for 2012/13 indicate that it is now left with a deficit of around …
Natalie Abrahami has been named the third Genesis Fellow at the Young Vic and as part of her appointment also becomes an associate director at the venue. Abrahami directed After Miss Julie a…