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‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection A treasure trove of manuscripts, notebooks and recordings from the theatre legend has been acquired by the Library of Congress in Washington DC

‘A privilege and a great pleasure’: inside the 5,000-item Stephen Sondheim collection

The @theguardian.com explores...

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Brigadoon revival releases production photos The revival plays outdoors

Brigadoon revival releases production photos

Check em out via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

www.whatsonstage.com/news/brigado...

Khalid Abdalla on typecasting, activism and his fringe show With his solo show for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe underway, actor Khalid Abdalla talks to Fergus Morgan about wrestling with typecasting and activism

Khalid Abdalla: ‘This important casting director took one look at me and thought I was destined to be typecast’

Read all about it via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/features/kha...

Council approves £26m revamp of Maltings arts centre in Northumberland The £25.9m redevelopment of the Maltings arts centre in Berwick has been approved by Northumberland County Council – planned changes include a new main theatre space

Northumberland Council approves £26m revamp of Maltings arts centre in Northumberland

Terrific news via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/news/council...

Chichester Festival Theatre’s Top Hat to transfer to London this Christmas Chichester Festival Theatre’s production of Irving Berlin’s Top Hat, is set to transfer to London, this Christmas

Your the top, no your the top!

#ChichesterFestivalTheatre's Top Hat to transfer to @southbankcentre.bsky.social in London this Christmas

Story via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/news/chiches...

£88m boost for youth services including arts extra-curriculars Prime minister Keir Starmer has announced an £88 million investment in youth services across the UK, including music lessons and other extra-curricular arts provisions

Keir Starmer announces £88m for youth services including arts extra-curriculars.

More info via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/news/keir-st...

ACE pauses project grants applications amid tech crisis Arts Council England has paused applications for its National Lottery Project Grants until September, due to continuing problems with its application portal

ACE pauses project grants applications amid ongoing tech crisis.

Been one hell of an IT eff up - read all about it via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/news/ace-pau...

Opera singer crowdfunds £50k scholarship at Guildhall Guildhall School of Music and Drama has launched a £50,000 scholarship to support state school-educated singers, crowdfunded by alumnus Nicky Spence

Opera singer Nicky Spence crowdfunds £50k to support state-educated talent at Guildhall

Full story via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/news/opera-s...

What a fantastic Shakespeare Season coming up for the MA Classical Actors at #LAMDA... lamda.ac.uk/whats-on

Truth is truth
To th’end of reck’ning.
(Isabella, Act 5 Scene 1)

#ShakespeareSunday
#MeasureForMeasure
📸Emma Fielding as Isabella & Daniel Evans as Angelo, Measure for Measure, Dir Sean Holmes #TheRSC 2003

New York Times' critics' 'reassignment' signals worrying trend The New York Times' decision to reassign leading critics is a big risk, says David Benedict

'The New York Times’ ‘reassignment’ of expert arts critics signals a worrying trend' says David Benedict in @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/opinion/the-...

It's that time of the month! Yes, time to turn your #LazarusCalendar.

This month features the full company of our 2023 production of HAMLET which played @swkplay.bsky.social .

Shot taken by the wonderful #CharlieFlint

Did you know August got it's name from the Ancient Romans who named this month for Augustus Caesar (Octavius in Shakespeare's Julius Caesar)!!!

Well now you do.

Obituary: Sylvia Young, theatre school founder Theatre school founder who received a special Olivier award for 'giving countless students the opportunity to study performing arts'

Theatre school founder who received a special Olivier award for ‘giving countless students the opportunity to study performing arts’

www.thestage.co.uk/obituaries--...

*Your listening to Lazarus FM - Tune in for more insightful nonsense next week

*in best radio voice / inspired by #LizaTarbuckRadio

We don't want to alarm anyone but bloody hell it's Aug tomorrow!

#TimeFlies

Theatre school founder Sylvia Young dies aged 85. Theatre school founder Sylvia Young has died, aged 85.

Stage school founder Sylvia Young dies aged 85

www.thestage.co.uk/news/stage-s...

"And from mine ashes let a conqueror rise,
That may revenge this treason to a queen
By plowing up his countries with the sword."

Dido Queen of Carthage by Christopher Marlowe
#EarlyModernMonday

📸(2013 Alice Brown & Joseph Tweedale taken by Adam Trigg)

Brian Cox interview ahead of appearing at the Edinburgh International Festival 2025 Succession star Brian Cox on his career, returning to the Scottish stage, being 'the worst stage manager ever' and possibly doing King Lear again

Brian Cox: ‘I loved working on Succession, but I missed the theatre – I had to go back’ via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/features/bri...

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"The spring, the summer,
The childing autumn, angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries, and the mazed world,
By their increase, now knows not which is which."

#ShakespeareSunday
#AMSND

📸2017 @youngvictheatre pro, shot by Keith Pattison

Our pals #TheRSC have released production shots for Yaël Farber's new production of THE WINTERS TALE...

www.rsc.org.uk/the-winters-...

William Dudley obituary Innovative theatre designer who was one of the outstanding new stars to emerge in the 1970s

An extraordinary Designer, a creator of worlds...

Innovative theatre designer who was one of the outstanding new stars to emerge in the 1970s

www.theguardian.com/stage/2025/j...

#BillDudley
#TheatreDesigner
#TheatreDesign

Celebrating the plays of Brian Friel in the Irish landscape In the lead-up to Brian Friel’s centenary year, Arts Over Borders directors talk about the epic five-year project of site-specific presentations of his plays

Brian Friel: Celebrating the great Irish playwright in the places that inspired his work

Arts Over Borders is curating an epic 5 year project. Jane Coyle speaks to some of the directors via @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/features/bri...

#BrianFriel
#IrishDrama
#ArtsOverBorders

Fight club: meet the people behind theatre’s thrilling combat scenes Fight direction has developed far beyond pulling punches. Kate Wyver discovers more about the process, the overlap with intimacy direction and why conflict drives a story forward

Fight club: meet the people behind theatre’s thrilling combat scenes

Kate Wyver gets down and dirty in @thestage.co.uk

www.thestage.co.uk/long-reads/f...

Sometimes you just need the space to reconnect to yourself, your practice & the work.

#LazarusGYM 💪💪🏻💪🏼💪🏽💪🏾💪🏿

We missed #ShakespeareSunday so here's #EarlyModernMonday...

“Fools that will laugh on earth, most weep in hell.”
#DoctorFaustus
#ChristopherMarlowe

📸our 2022 Company of Doctor Faustus taken by #CharlieFlint

Well there we have it - end of Season 2 of the #LazarusGYM (as my battered copy of the dagger speech can testify).

BIG thanks to everyone who has entered the GYM this season - summer break - and on to Level 3 in September!

www.lazarustheatrecompany.co.uk/gym

New Diorama Theatre announces autumn season – including new musical Precipice See what’s coming at the original home of shows like Operation Mincemeat or For Black Boys…

The @newdiorama.bsky.social announces autumn season – including new musical Precipice...

Announcement via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

www.whatsonstage.com/news/new-dio...

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry to transfer to the West End – with new single from Passenger and Jack Wolfe released today The hit musical will have a future life!

The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry to transfer to the West End – with new single from Passenger and Jack Wolfe released today

Check it out via @whatsonstage.bsky.social

www.whatsonstage.com/news/the-unl...