Roger Allam is set to appear opposite Colin Morgan in The Tempest as part of Shakespeare's Globe's 2013 season. Allam will play Prospero and Morgan, who is best known for playing the title r…
Theatres are becoming more "risk averse" when commissioning new writing due to cuts to art funding, leading theatre directors have warned. National Theatre associate director Marianne Elliot…
One of the major funding streams for vocational drama and dance training in England will now means test applicants, with students from wealthier backgrounds no longer eligible for the bursar…
The Royal Opera House and Leeds-based Unlimited Theatre are among the cultural groups set to receive funding from Arts Council England for digital projects. The Digital Research and Developm…
Former Royal Shakespeare Company artistic director Michael Boyd has called on arts bodies and schools to create an "underground curriculum" should the government's English Baccalaureate prop…
Russell Grant will not appear in tonight's opening performance of Midnight Tango at London's Phoenix Theatre due to an ankle injury he acquired during rehearsals. He slipped on black ice bef…
Touring theatre company New Perspectives has appointed Sally Anne Tye as its new executive director. She takes up her role at the end of March, replacing Chris Kirkwood who will leave the co…
The National Theatre has received £2.5 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards its £70 million NT Future project. The venue's plans include refurbishment of the Cottesloe audito…
West End performers and theatre makers including Alistair McGowan, Arlene Phillips and director Philip Hedley have joined a campaign to fight Westminster City Council's proposal to cut its e…
An amphitheatre is being planned in north London on the site where a 16th century theatre that hosted the premiere of Henry V used to exist. The remains of the Curtain Theatre " which was...
Public funding for the arts should not be justified solely because of its economic benefit, according to National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner. Hytner said that the "economic ar…
National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner has said it is “not surprising” that box office figures showing London theatres' overall sales in 2012 were higher than the yea…
The Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting, which gives out awards totalling £40,000, has opened for entries this year. The winner of the 2013 prize will receive £16,000 and three judges' awa…
Screenwriter Regina Moriarty and composer Pippa Cleary have each won £10,000 prizes at the Arts Foundation Awards 2013. At a ceremony held last week, Moriarty won in the screenwriting cat…
Northern Ballet has appointed David Wootton as its new chairman. He has replaced acting chair lan Harrison, who took over from David Forbes last year. Wootton will be the ballet company's se…
Equity has agreed to reduce the number of its committees by almost a third, under radical proposals designed to streamline and modernise the union. The new committee structure is intended to…
Simon Godwin will direct Anne-Marie Duff and Charles Edwards in Eugene O'Neill's Strange Interlude as part of the National Theatre's programme for its 50th anniversary year. The show will op…
London's Bush Theatre and Hackney Empire are among those venues that have been awarded funds in the second round of the Theatres Trust's small grants scheme. Both theatres will receive aroun…
Arts leaders in Newcastle have had "constructive and productive discussions" with the leader of the local council about its proposed 100% funding cut to arts bodies across the city by 2016, …
Bristol Old Vic's co production with Sherman Cymru of new play Before It Rains has won the best script and best female performance prizes at the inaugural Theatre Critics of Wales Awards. Wr…
Shakespeare's Globe's executive director Neil Constable and Sheffield Theatres' chief executive Daniel Bates were among the winners of The Stage 100 Awards who picked up their prizes last we…
Soho Theatre and English National Ballet will be among those groups set to lose funding from Westminster City Council following a proposal to phase out all of its arts budget by 2014/15. A r…
Laurence Olivier's screenplays for a 1950s film version of Macbeth that was never made have been found at the British Library. They were discovered in the library's Laurence Olivier Archive …
London's Sadler's Wells, Brighton Dome and Oldham Coliseum Theatre are among 20 organisations that have all been successful in the first part of their application to Arts Council England for…
Course professors at two of the UK's leading drama schools have expressed concerns that the "restrictive" English Baccalaureate proposals from the government will reduce the number of studen…