Industry bodies the Writers' Guild of Great Britan and the Musicians' Union are the latest groups to oppose the government's proposal to introduce an English Baccalaureate qualification that…
Director Charlotte Gwinner has been appointed associate director at Liverpool Everyman and Playhouse after receiving the Quercus Award for Theatre Directors 2013. She will take up her positi…
An adaptation of Benjamin Zephaniah's novel Refugee Boy by Lemn Sissay will feature as part of the new season at West Yorkshire Playhouse. It will be directed by Gail McIntyre, with design b…
James McAvoy is set to star as Macbeth in a new season of work directed by Jamie Lloyd at Trafalgar Studios next year. The show runs at the West End venue from February 9 until...
The West End production of Uncle Vanya, starring Ken Stott, Anna Friel and Samuel West, is due to close three weeks earlier than planned. It will now run until January 26, 2013, instead of F…
Sadler's Wells and Shakespeare's Globe are among a range of arts organisations taking part in a programme of cultural events in Qatar and the UK next year. Qatar UK 2013 Year of Culture will…
A Norwich theatre has terminated the contract of its 24 year-old artistic director after only eight months in the job, leading to a dispute over the reasons for her departure. Genevieve Ragh…
All individuals working in theatre management will be eligible for membership of the Theatrical Management Association from 2014 as part of an internal review of the organisation, which is a…
Portsmouth's New Theatre Royal will begin its £4 million redevelopment project early next year after being awarded the final £750,000 funding it required from Arts Council England. The…
Female playwrights and directors in the UK will be as fairly represented as their male counterparts 20 years from now, according to National Theatre artistic director Nicholas Hytner. Hytner…
Following a union-wide referendum, Equity members have voted in favour of reducing the number of seats on its ruling council by one third, as part of controversial plans to create a more str…
Proposals to close and demolish Weymouth Pavilion Theatre will be put out to public consultation if a voluntary or private group cannot be found to run the building. At a meeting this week, …
The Print Room's 2013 season will include a revival of Brian Friel's play Molly Sweeney, directed by Abigail Graham. It will run at the London-based venue from March 27 to April 27, 2013 and…
Family attraction group Merlin Entertainments has appointed Michael Braithwaite as its first shows director within the organisation's creative and development department, Merlin Magic Making…
Michael Elwyn, Nathaniel Parker and Rufus Wright are set to star in The Audience by Peter Morgan next year. Elwyn will play Anthony Eden, while Parker has been cast as Gordon Brown alongside…
Fiona Shaw and dancer Daniel Hay-Gordon will perform poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner at the Old Vic Tunnels next year. The production is directed by Phyllid…
The Central School of Speech and Drama has been awarded royal status by the Queen. As part of her Diamond Jubilee year, the monarch has honoured the training centre by re-naming it the Royal…
A government report examining how to increase philanthropy in regional cultural organisations recommends that arts chief executives should lead the fundraising effort rather than delegating …
A Christmas Carol, directed by Tim Carroll and starring Dominic Gerrard, is due to be staged at the V&A museum next month. The one-man adaptation by Gerrard of Charles Dickens' novel wil…
Writer and former children's laureate Michael Rosen has been appointed as guest director of this year's Brighton Festival, which celebrates arts across the city. As part of the event, a new …
Nicholas Hytner, the artistic director of the National Theatre, has reiterated his concerns about the risk to regional theatres posed by funding cuts, warning it could lead to a repetition o…
Shakespeare's wife's cottage is under threat from a housing development planned for the area behind the site, according to campaigners who object to the proposals. Members of the Save Shotte…
Playwrights Caryl Churchill, Howard Brenton and Timberlake Wertenbaker are set to collaborate with fringe venue Theatre503 by working with young writers next year. As part of the south Londo…
Garsington Opera has named conductor Douglas Boyd as its new artistic director, replacing Anthony Whitworth-Jones, who retired this month. Boyd was a founder member of the Chamber Orchest…
Shakespeare's Globe's new indoor Jacobean-style theatre will be named the Sam Wanamaker Theatre after the organisation's founder, with its first production due to be staged in early 2014. Th…