News from the business of theatre: funding decisions and Arts Council England announcements, the finances of touring and regional venues, industry research and attendance figures, and the openings, closures and campaigns that shape what reaches the stage.
Underbelly Boulevard Soho is to close, and its final production will be Sophie’s Surprise Christmas Party, a festive circus and comedy party from Three Legged Race Productions running from 13 November 2026 to 10 January…
Eight emerging leaders from theatre and dance form the first intake of the Imogen Kinchin Fellowship, the funded programme created in memory of the producer who was latterly Executive Director of Matthew Bourne's New…
Spencer Phillips, whose career includes senior roles at Ticketmaster and LW Theatres, has been appointed chair of Queen's Theatre Hornchurch's board of trustees as the theatre begins its search for a new chief executive.
The Squint Playwriting Award is open to applicants for the first time since 2023, offering eight early-career London writers from low-income backgrounds a paid six-month programme and an industry showcase at Theatre…
The winner of the International Award at The Stage Awards 2026 returns to the stage next spring with Rædsel, a Danish play by Anna Bro, and is asking for £10,000 to keep the UK's only theatre translator mentorship…
Shakespeare's Globe has opened a new Research & Collections Centre designed by Allies and Morrison, giving its library and archive a public home on Bankside for the first time.
Arts Council England has published the full details of its next National Portfolio, the five-year investment programme that will set the public funding of producing theatres, opera houses and dance companies from April…
Bristol Old Vic is taking A Brit?ish Museum and Dead Air out of its King Street home and into 19 of the city's secondary schools this autumn, at no cost to the schools, as theatre leaders warn that young people's access…
London City Ballet has been named a core partner in The Royal Ballet: FUTUREWORKS, a five-year programme announced by Royal Ballet and Opera to give choreographers working in classical ballet a settled structure in…
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