The Stage

With The Stage taking place tonight, we just wanted to take this opportunity to shout about our amazing sponsors and supporters helping make tonight happen 💖

Sponsors: Theatrical Rights Worldwide, Michael Harrison Entertainment, Arts Council England, Preevue, Sonia Friedman Productions, Crossroads Live, Noel Coward Foundation, Trafalgar Entertainment

Supporters: Access/ Theatre Royal Haymarket, Cameron Macintosh, Encore, Sky Arts, Cabbells, and The Agency

And of course our headline sponsor ATG Entertainment!

Read more about these brilliant organisations: https://www.thestage.co.uk/awards/the-stage-debut-awards?tab=sponsors

Today is the day 🤩

We are at the gorgeous 8 Northumberland Avenue in London, gearing up for The Stage in association with ATG Entertainment!

Keep an eye on the hashtag for the latest...

In the meantime, catch up on this year's shortlist 👇

The Stage Debut Awards 2024: nominees in full

Princess Cruise Lines will be coming to Europe to hold auditions in London and Madrid, looking for dancers and vocalists to join them at sea!

Applications close tomorrow 👉 https://jobs.thestage.co.uk/career/28160/princess-cruises-london-madrid-auditions

Lighting designer Nicola Crawford, scenographer Jacob Wu, sound designer Pierre Flasse and director and writer Tyler Holland are the four artists selected for the Elemental talent-development initiative 👇

Newbury's Watermill Theatre unveils cohort for year-long talent development scheme

A former "corporate job" employee has won a scholarship worth more than £20,000 to pursue drama school training 👇

Actor secures inaugural £20,000 scholarship for north London drama school

Wicked is looking for a Head of Costume to join its London team!

In this role, you'll manage and advocate for all activities required for realising the Costume Designer’s vision.

Find out more and apply 👉 https://jobs.thestage.co.uk/career/28165/head-costume

Addressing the conference for the first time since his election win in July, Starmer doubled down on his manifesto commitment to curriculum reforms, which would ensure greater access to the arts in schools. 👇

Keir Starmer: Every child deserves the chance to study creative subjects

A celebration of Noël Coward’s "enduring legacy" will feature appearances by top-billed talent including Hugh Bonneville and Judi Dench 👇

Hugh Bonneville and Judi Dench join charity gala honouring Noël Coward

Jethro Compton and Darren Clark’s folk-musical adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s short story The Curious Case of Benjamin Button is the latest fringe show to hit the West End. The pair tell Anya Ryan how they got here 👇

How fringe musical The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Benjamin Button made it to the West End

A new play by Suzie Miller, the UK premiere of Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, and and a National Theatre debut for Rosamund Pike are all to form part of Rufus Norris’ last season at the London-based organisation 👇

Rosamund Pike to make NT debut in Suzie Miller play as Rufus Norris unveils last season

Musicians' Union boss Naomi Pohl has urged the government to protect musicians from artificial intelligence in what she called a "David and Goliath battle" 👇

MU boss: Musicians are facing a David and Goliath battle against AI

Novelist Kate Mosse is to star in a one-woman show inspired by her bestseller Labyrinth, which will tour 33 UK venues 👇

Labyrinth author Kate Mosse to star in one-woman show inspired by novel

Timely new play interrogates the tarnished legacy of celebrated author Roald Dahl 👇

Giant review at the Royal Court, London

An arts centre in Halifax has admitted it "unfortunately" owes artists money but that it is hopeful to put the debts "in the past" with further funding from Arts Council England 👇

Halifax arts centre promises to pay owed performers with release of ACE grants

Karen McGowan, 50, will be incarcerated after pleading guilty to money laundering, converting criminal property and two counts of fraud – with the court hearing her compulsive gambling compelled her to swindle the Leicester theatre 👇

Former Curve Leicester finance worker imprisoned for defrauding theatre

Sleeping Warrior's propulsive new musical about the Brent Spar protest, written and directed by Isla Cowan and Andy McGregor 👇

To Save the Sea review at Tron Theatre, Glasgow, from Sleeping Warrior Theatre Company

ATG Entertainment is seeking a Production Coordinator to join its London team!

Find out more and apply today 👉 https://jobs.thestage.co.uk/career/28204/production-coordinator-london

West End theatres will dim their lights in memory of actor Maggie Smith, who has died aged 89 👇

West End to dim lights in memory of Maggie Smith

Figures including Lisa Nandy, Hugh Bonneville and Giles Terera have paid tribute to actor Maggie Smith, who has died aged 89 👇

Maggie Smith: Theatre world pays tribute to icon of stage and screen

Kick-start your career as an actor on this part-time, evening programme at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland.

Explore acting for both stage and screen, voiceover technique, movement and voice, and be given development sessions to prepare you for moving on after the programme in your career or a potential undergraduate degree.

Join the Introductory webinar on October 9.

Link to: https://www.rcs.ac.uk/courses/actor-training-blended-short-courses/

A statement from her sons confirmed she passed away peacefully on Friday, September 27, while in hospital 👇

https://www.thestage.co.uk/news/actor-maggie-smith-dies-aged-89

BECTU head Philippa Childs has called for "radical" reform of freelancers' rights, warning their challenging predicament is "structural" 👇

BECTU head calls for radical reform of freelancers' rights

The star of TV hits such as Poldark and One Day, Eleanor Tomlinson is making a rare foray on to the stage for the European premiere of Matthew López’s Reverberation. The actor tells Fergus Morgan about the moments that have made up her career 👇

Eleanor Tomlinson: ‘You have to keep pushing yourself, otherwise you become stale’

For freelancers, taking time away from work often feels like running the risk of missing out on opportunities that pay the bills, says Rob Halliday. People in performing arts shouldn’t be afraid to say they’re taking a holiday 👇

Rob Halliday: People in performing arts shouldn’t be afraid to say we’re taking a holiday

Touring company Oddsocks Productions has opened its first permanent venue in Derbyshire, after founders and husband-wife duo Andy Barrow and Elli Mackenzie sold their family home to finance the dream 👇

Oddsocks opens theatre in disused chapel after founders sell home to fund it