Public tickets for the Olivier Awards 2023with Mastercard, which will take place on Sunday 2 April, go on sale exclusively to Mastercard cardholders today (Tuesday 17 January) via priceless.com.
Olivier Awards 2023 with Mastercard announces new host Hannah Waddingham as public tickets go onsale
The House of Lords Communications Committee has warned that Government complacency risks undermining the UK’s creative industries in the face of increased international competition and rapid technological change.
In a report published today, the Committee says that the UK’s creative industries should sit at the heart of the UK’s economic growth plans. But the Committee sounds the alarm over missed opportunities and a failure among senior Government figures to recognise the sector’s commercial potential.
WhatsOnStage today announce that Courtney Bowman, Laurie Kynaston and Billy Luke Nevers will host the 23rd Annual WhatsOnStage Awards on 12 February 2023 at the Prince of Wales Theatre. Bowman, herself a nominee for last year’s smash-hit Legally Blonde, will team up with Kynaston who starred in the heavily nominated 2021 revival of Spring Awakening, and her Legally Blonde co-star and current & Juliet cast member Nevers. The annual Awards ceremony is the only major theatre prize-giving decided entirely by the theatregoers themselves. Further details of the ceremony, including the performances at the event, will be announced shortly. Voting for this year’s awards closes tomorrow, 10 January.
Courtney Bowman and Laurie Kynaston – Photo by Danny Kaan
Phillippe Cato and Wayne Glover-Stuart launch ‘Telluric’, a theatre production company with the vision to create a theatre sector where all LGBTQIA+ stories are told regardless of gender, race, disability, or socio-economic background.
Today, as part of its on going radical restructure, which began two years ago, Stockroom announces the departure of Artistic Director Kate Wasserberg after five years in the role. The move continues the company’s purposeful evolution, which will now predominantly focus on writer and script development following its loss of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status announced in October.
From Easter to Midsummer’s night, Budapest and Hungary will become a celebratory meeting point for the theatrical world. 200 companies from 35 countries will come to Hungary between 1stApril and 1stJuly 2023 forthe10th International Theatre Olympics. The theatres in Budapest and all over Hungary will join the Hungarian Olympics; and they will host one production from abroad and one from a trans border Hungarian theatre–the choice of which is up to them. In this way, the Hungarian-language theatres of Hungary’s neighbouring countries can be part of the Olympics, and the invitation of international companies can create long-term partnerships for Hungarian theatres.
The Place, London’s leading centre for dance development, creation and performance, is pleased to announce a call out for applications for Choreodrome2023.
Just Add Milk (JAM) are pleased to announce the winner of The Luke Westlake Scholarship 2022. Kindly supported by The Foundry Personal Management, the winner was announced at last night’s annual ceremony at the Lyric Hammersmith Studio Theatre.
Winner Sol Taibi.
This December, to show thanks for the incredible work done by NHS staff members throughout the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond, the Royal Opera House will be welcoming NHS nurses and their families to its 2022 Paul Hamlyn Christmas Treat: a morning of interactive workshops and activities followed by a gala performance of The Nutcracker.
Following their loss of Arts Council England National Portfolio Organisation status and as artists and theatre professionals in London are squeezed because of the redistribution of national arts funding away from the capital, theatre’s leading writers’ room, Stockroom has launched a brand-new initiative with the aim of establishing a creative hub for new writing in the city.
