News

Six shorts at a Manchester pub

11 March 2012

The seventh JB Shorts evening of short, new plays at Joshua Brooks in Manchester will open later this month.

Showzam pulls 20,000 out of a hat

11 March 2012

Showzam! Blackpool's annual celebration of circus, magic and new variety, saw more than 20,000 visitors descending on the festival hub, Showzam! Central.

SOLT Chief Exec joins Heart of the West End conference

9 March 2012

SOLT chief executive Julian Bird will join the panel discussing the future of the West End at The Heart of the West End conference in March.

Cartoon de Salvo celebrates 15th anniversary with two new shows in two venues

9 March 2012

Theatre company Cartoon de Salvo will celebrate its 15th anniversary with two news shows: Made Up at Soho Theatre and The Irish Giant in The Vault at Southwark Playhouse.

SOLT Theatreland Walking Tours now includes Haunted Theatreland

9 March 2012

The annual season of the Society of London Theatres Theatreland Walking Tours has opened its bookings for April to December.

Nick Darke Award for writing offers £6000 prize

8 March 2012

The annual Nick Darke Award for writing for stage, screen and radio has been launched for this year with with a top prize of £6000, double the award of previous years.

Monkee Business producers pay tribute to Davy Jones

8 March 2012

The producers of Monkee Business, the musical based on the songs of 60s pop band The Monkees, have paid tribute to original band member Davy Jones who died last week.

Stephen Sondheim Winner of the Fifth Annual Sheridan Morley Prize for Theatre Biography

8 March 2012

Presentation to short-listed authors for the Sheridan Morley Prize and announcement of the winner

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.

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.

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.

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.