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Production And Technical Man...

Jobs

Durham £35,934 to £39,782 ...

Voice Tutor

London

Production Sound Engineer

London £30-32K per annum, ...

Lecturer/Lecturer Practition...

Cambridge £33k - £39k annually

Drama, Voice and Movement Te...

London

Head of Foundation (South)

London £28-30k

Drama Teachers

China

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DAD in Wearing Thin

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Singers in Jersey Boys

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My Light Shines On: Ghost Light

YouTube

The National Theatre of Scotland’s Ghost Light is an exquisitely detailed love-song to theatre itself

“Wonderfully delicate”

The Wonderful Wizard of Oz

Brighton Open Air Theatre

Watching Rosie

“A deafening picture of the reality of being Black in 21st-century Britain”

Staged

BBC One

See more of this week's latest reviews

Podcasts and Cartoons

Listen to the latest episode of Seven Stages or catch up with Hamlet

Seven Stages Podcast: Episode 8, Es Devlin

Castings

Leilah in Birds and Bees

TBC Paid

Aarron in Birds and Bees

TBC Paid

Maisy in Birds and Bees

TBC Paid

Billy in Birds and Bees

TBC Paid

Female Contributor in Video ...

London Paid

Genuine Family in Lifestyle ...

Wales TBC Paid

Samsung Mobile Phone Owners ...

TBC Paid

Couple 1 in Jack Penate Promo

Camberwell Paid

DAD in Wearing Thin

South West London Paid

Woman #1 in Alcohol Brand TVC

tbc Paid

The Ferris Couple in Alcohol...

tbc Paid

Blind or Visually Impaired L...

TBC Paid

Singers in Jersey Boys

Touring Paid

Singers in Boy Band Tribute Act

Touring Paid

Chinese or Korean Twins in S...

Prague Paid

Seven tips for making a cast album during lockdown

by Poppy Burton-Morgan

Mohamed Sarrar: 'My opportunity came when I was a refugee in the Calais Jungle'

Voice coach Rebecca Gausnell: 'If you change your breath, you can change your life'

Acting coach Zara Tomkinson: ‘I want the industry to be an equal playing field’

Actor Chipo Chung: 'I came to England to do Shakespeare'

The Stage/Rose Bruford scholarship winner 2020

by Paul Vale

by Lyn Gardner

The talent we would have seen at EdFringe will reinvent theatre's future

Edinburgh Fringe showcases the imaginative and the innovative. We need those theatremakers when building a future for the sector

by David Benedict

Phan fiction: so what is going on with The Phantom of the Opera?

Cameron Mackintosh said The Phantom of the Opera would "permanently shut down", but Andrew Lloyd Webber reassured fans it would reopen "as soon as possible" – what is going on with the hit musical? asks David Benedict

The Green Room

What was the last show you saw in a theatre?

Our weekly panel of theatre workers and industry professionals discuss the last shows they saw before lockdown and their hopes for the return of live indoor theatre

Freelancers forgotten again – I’m beginning to lose hope

by Stephanie Street

Arts workers are finally talking to each other, and it feels like a revolution

by Catherine Kodicek

Phantom's survival is comforting news to an industry braced for sudden endings

by Richard Jordan

To survive Covid, we must protect people as well as buildings

by Freddie Crossley

Government recovery fund aims to retain status quo, not freelance workforce

by Alistair Smith

Is the government willing to dig in and ensure the future of theatre?

by Tracy Brabin

Your views

Let’s focus on talent, not admin staff – your views, August 5

Theatre workers need time to adjust post-lockdown, your views, July 29

The Green Room

What was the last show you saw in a theatre?

Our weekly panel of theatre workers and industry professionals discuss the last shows they saw before lockdown and their hopes for the return of live indoor theatre

Your views

'Actor' or 'actress'? The debate continues (your views, December 14)

Actors' agents need to play a role in addressing harassment allegations (your views, November 7)

Actors are trained to play all roles (your views, February 22)

Seven tips for making a cast album during lockdown

by Poppy Burton-Morgan

Mohamed Sarrar: 'My opportunity came when I was a refugee in the Calais Jungle'

by John Byrne

Voice coach Rebecca Gausnell: 'If you change your breath, you can change your life'

by John Byrne

Acting coach Zara Tomkinson: ‘I want the industry to be an equal playing field’

by John Byrne

Actor Chipo Chung: 'I came to England to do Shakespeare'

by John Byrne

The Stage/Rose Bruford scholarship winner 2020

by Paul Vale

Your views

Let’s focus on talent, not admin staff – your views, August 5

Theatre workers need time to adjust post-lockdown, your views, July 29

Careers Clinic by John Byrne

Will my old agent take me back?

Dear West End Producer

'Is it better to do a diploma at a relatively unknown college or a foundation at a ‘big’ school?'

Quote UnQuote

Quotes of the week, August 5: Hugh Skinner, Juliet Stevenson, Ola Ince and more

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Big Interviews

The Stage talks in depth to movers and shakers from across the industry

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Adam Cooper

Dancer

Susie McKenna

Director, writer and producer

Paapa Essiedu

Actor

Adrienne Warren

Actor

Michael Buffong

Director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

John Napier

Designer

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Adam Cooper

Dancer

Susie McKenna

Director, writer and producer

Paapa Essiedu

Actor

“This has to be a moment of absolute change, of reset”

Michael Buffong

Director

Talawa artistic director Michael Buffong tells Tim Bano about how the black-led touring theatre company has inspired his career from the start

“Tina came out of nowhere – I thought they’d give it to Beyoncé”

Adrienne Warren

Actor

“Our place in the world is at risk. It’s as grave as that”

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

“We’re talking about plans A, B and C, it changes every week”

Antonio Pappano

Music director

“This is unprecedented. We’re taking each day as it comes”

Stephen Rebbeck

Technical Director

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Adam Cooper

Dancer

Susie McKenna

Director, writer and producer

Paapa Essiedu

Actor

Adrienne Warren

Actor

Michael Buffong

Director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

John Napier

Designer

Julian Bird

Chief executive, Society of London Theatre/UK Theatre

Antonio Pappano

Music director

Nancy Carroll

Actor

Adam Cooper

Dancer

Susie McKenna

Director, writer and producer

Paapa Essiedu

Actor

Long Reads

Running out of time – can this year’s panto season be saved?

Kultur club: How Germany has led the way in supporting the arts in lockdown

What now for the Edinburgh Fringe? The questions that hover over the festival in its fallow year

by Lyn Gardner

With the fringe cancelled this summer, Edinburgh hopefuls are eyeing 2021 – but will it be back next year? And if so, what will it look like and what size will it be? Artists and fringe leaders tell The Stage about the value of the festival and how this could be a chance to remake it for the future

Crunch time: the nation’s funded theatres on their struggle to survive

by Fergus Morgan

How is immersive theatre staying afloat during lockdown?

by Anna James

Running out of time – can this year’s panto season be saved?

Kultur club: How Germany has led the way in supporting the arts in lockdown

Crunch time: the nation’s funded theatres on their struggle to survive

by Fergus Morgan

How is immersive theatre staying afloat during lockdown?

by Anna James

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