Win training worth more than £27,000 in The Stage/Sylvia Young Scholarships. See page 19 By TARA CONLAN Exclusive Artist Management Group headed by Nick Thomas and Jon Conway has merged with Paul Elliott's E&B Productions to create a new, multimillion pound theatrical parent gro

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Falstaff confirmed as show to reopen Royal Opera House. Page 2 Sprouting out Bush and Channel 4 join forces in £140,000 develop ment deal. Page 3 Write or wrong? Writers' Guild attacks BBC over approach to TV drama. Page 3 Trlpto tonic Scottish Arts Council backs producing house

Rose remains go on show The remains of Shakespeare's Rose Theatre are to be reopened to public view in April with a sound and light show devised by designer William Dudley. It will mark the formal launch of a multi-million pound fund-raising campaign by the Rose Theatre Trust to

Companies hit by LBGC funding blow Many of the capital s top the atre and dance companies have been turned down for funding by the London Boroughs Grant Committee. Oily Cart. ARC Theatre Ensemble, Besht Tellers, the Kosh, Quicksilver and Sphinx are among those who will not be fun

Better late than never I Theatregoers used to the daunt- I ing 'Latecomers will not be I admitted' notice on the back of their tickets will be warmed by a scheme at north London's Hampstead Theatre, writes Adrian Dawson. People who arrive at the 1 venue late are given a synopsis

Equity buoyed as finances improve By PHIL GIBBY Exclusive Equity this week hailed rising membership numbers and a rapid improvement in its finances as proof that it had finally "turned the corner". I he btage understands that the union has recorded an annual deficit of just £35.0

C4 and Bush unite in writers' initiative By BEN DOWELL London's Bush Theatre and Channel 4 have joined forces in a unique £ 1 40,000 deal to bring theatre writers to the small screen. Applying the slogan 'No Cops, No Docs, No Vets' six writers have been chosen to write one-act pl