Monday, July 24, 2017
England’s oldest rep, Frinton Summer Theatre, has entertained local residents and holidaymakers for 80 years, proving a useful training ground for well-known
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As the epic Angels in America continues its run at the National, its director – who has helmed some of theatre’s biggest
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Nearly 30 years ago, The Stage’s former editor took a chance on an inexperienced, 24-year-old photographer. Nick Smurthwaite finds out about his
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Having started out at the National’s education department, Joseph Smith went on to pursue a career as a producer in New York.
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After beginning her career at English Heritage, the entertainment executive went on to manage events venues Alexandra Palace and the O2 during
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The Olivier-winning set and costume designer is no stranger to West End transfers, with recent hits including The 39 Steps and My
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The fortnightly compendium of newspaper theatre reviews was launched in 1981 and has recently joined the digital age. Nick Smurthwaite discovers how
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It is only 18 months since she won the prestigious Linbury Prize, but Grace Smart is already showing signs of becoming one
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As Brick Lane Music Hall founder Vincent Hayes celebrates its 25th anniversary, Nick Smurthwaite looks back at how it has championed revue-style
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It is 30 years since the Dukes, Lancaster, produced its first annual promenade show, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in nearby Williamson Park,
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Lola Williams Organisation: New Wonder Management Training: BA (hons) in theatre arts; MBA CV: Worked as radio presenter and journalist in Nigeria;
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The popular image we have of music hall, mostly gleaned from TV’s The Good Old Days, is of overdressed songbirds clutching parasols
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In the age of the Big Beast musicals – Cats, Les Mis, Phantom, Miss Saigon – who could ever forget those iconic
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One of the busiest sound engineers around, Matilda stalwart Leigh Davies is moving into design. He tells Nick Smurthwaite how this led to
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Not only is Hildegard Bechtler one of our busiest and most sought-after stage designers, but she also has an uncanny knack of
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Though she is best known for the frequently revived modern classic Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker has written some 30 plays, the latest
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Back in the mid-1990s, it looked as if Catherine McCormack was on her way to becoming a Hollywood femme fatale. Having burst
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Like moths to the flame, people are surging towards a big neon sign saying Zippos Circus in the wide open space of
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For one of the capital’s most progressive theatre hubs to set up shop in an abandoned Victorian library always threatened to be
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Behind all the back-slapping, celeb-spotting and faux humility, showbiz award ceremonies are meant to be about celebrating the hard graft and dedication
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Visions of Peggy Mount or Yootha Joyce tend to pop into your head at the mention of the term “theatrical digs”. Of
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Before meeting the producer Karl Sydow for lunch at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, I am briefed by his PR Arabella:
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All roads lead to the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The magnificent art deco building opened to the public with Follow the
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The baby boomer generation is one of regional theatre’s biggest demographics so it made perfect sense for writer Michael Aitkens to adapt
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Just when you thought every permutation of staging Shakespeare had been tried, along comes another freshly minted Hamlet to confound our expectations.
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Michelle Collins was turned down by half a dozen drama schools when she started out. “I’ve always felt untrained,” she admits as
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Find out what you’re good at and then become the best you can. This simple piece of careers advice could certainly be
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Any theatre buff or practitioner who was around in the 1950s and 1960s was in thrall to the critic Kenneth Tynan, whose
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Soon after she took over the running of the Liverpool Everyman in the 1980s, Glen Walford invited local hairdresser-turned-playwright Willy Russell to
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