News

Callow's Being Shakespeare released on DVD

4 March 2012

The production of Being Shakespeare by Jonathan Bate starring Simon Callow as the Bard is to be released on DVD this week.

Dot Wood steps down from M6 after 30 years

4 March 2012

Dot Wood MBE is to step down as artistic producer of pioneering theatre-in-education and children's theatre company M6 of Rochdale after being with the company for thirty years.

News from the Midlands

4 March 2012

RSC takes triple Stratford look at shipwrecks; Curve uncovers musical theatre jewel; Holocaust survivor and Anne Frank visit Wolverhampton; what's on this week in the region.

News from the North East

4 March 2012

Coalhouse cast announced; NE playwrights in the news; The Mysteries at the Customs House; what's on in the region.

Rooke takes the Queen

4 March 2012

Lynda Rooke, a familiar face on stage and television, will star in the world premiere of The Queen of the North, about the life of famed actress Pat Phoenix, at Bolton Octagon in May.

Lighting a Fire for playwright

4 March 2012

Manchester-born playwright Miriam Battye has her Bruntwood Prize shortlisted play—I Started A Fire—given its first public reading in The Studio at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre on Friday March 9.

Fringe Festival sets fourth

4 March 2012

Preston Tringe, the city's annual festival of fringe theatre, is seeking acts for the fourth such festival, which has attracted a growing number of acts, and audiences, to venues across the city.

NW productions

4 March 2012

What's on in the region in the coming week.

The Dukes makes promises

4 March 2012

The Dukes Theatre in Lancaster are meeting the challenge of arts funding by offering patrons a Coronation Street tour by one of its stars; luxury minibreaks; a private cinema screening; or a day as a racehorse owner.

Camden's Sprint Festival 2012 opens

2 March 2012

The new co-directors of Camden People's Theatre, Jenny Paton and Brian Logan, launch the theatre's fifteenth annual festival of experimental theatre Sprint Festival 2012.

Writing for devising workshop with Dan Rebellato

2 March 2012

Playwright and academic Dan Rebellato will lead a "Writing for Devising" workshop at Salisbury Arts Centre for writers and actors.

Big Room playwright development scheme from Paines Plough and Channel 4

2 March 2012

New writing theatre company Paines Plough has again partnered with Channel 4 on a new scheme for playwright development, based on the Future Perfect scheme inaugurated in 2005.

Murder case appeal granted ahead of King's Head play

1 March 2012

Sam Hallam, who was convicted of murder seven years ago following a street fight, has been granted a new appeal just before a verbatim play about his case, Someone to Blame, opens at the King's Head Theatre in Islington.

Campaign against Scotland entertainment licensing changes grows

29 February 2012

The campaign against the proposed to entertainment licensing in Scotland is growing ahead of the date the changes come into force on 1 April, with a public meeting in support of the campaign in Edinburgh on 1 March.

Heart of the West End conference

29 February 2012

Leading figures in current and past West End theatre will mix with theatre academics at a two-day conference on commercial theatre in the West End organised by Royal Holloway College University of London, the Victoria and Albert Museum and Theatre Royal Haymarket.

Hair tour cancelled as "certain criteria could not be met"

28 February 2012

The national tour of the musical Hair has been cancelled because, according to a statement from the producers, "certain criteria could not be met".

Shakespeare's Globe £1.5M anonymous donation

28 February 2012

Shakespeare's Globe has received £1.5M from an anonymous private donor towards a matched-giving scheme to raise funds for the new indoor theatre.

News from the North East

26 February 2012

What's on in the region this week

News from the North West

26 February 2012

All-star Cabaret for Cancer at Royal Exchange; Salford One Play One Day to be repeated—in two venues; Organised Chaos call for scripts; New play about Beatles manager to première in Liverpool; NW productions.

News from the Midlands

26 February 2012

Morpurgo to give rare War Horse reading at Buxton; Nottingham stages ‘song drama’ for final time; Belinda becomes a Lady in Lavender at Northampton; Garrick brings big top to Lichfield for Christmas production; what’s on this week in the region.