Thursday, March 9, 2017
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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In a feature that appeared in The Stage in January under the headline ‘young designers to watch in 2017’, Matt Trueman cited,
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What young actor hasn’t dreamed of seeing their name in lights in the West End, or having a lead role in a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMPlaywrights dwell on posterity. Will their work live on after they are dead? Will anyone have heard of them in 100 years’
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London’s theatre lovers, amateur and professional, are soon to lose the iconic French’s Theatre Bookshop, off London’s Tottenham Court Road, which is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:36AMIt seemed like a good idea at the time. A people’s palace of entertainments needed a properly designated theatre where opera, ballet,
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Broadway welcomes a new kid on the block this week – the Hudson Theatre. Well, not new exactly, since the building has
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In a very real sense, designer Robert Jones has been living with The Calendar Girls for 10 years. He was drafted in
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In the right hands, even working in the lowliest of jobs can yield favourable results. The legendary Scottish playwright and artist John
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It has been quite a homecoming for Josette Bushell-Mingo. Not only has she returned (temporarily) to the UK from Stockholm, where she
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It was partly to do with his physical appearance – a grinning giant topped by a bright red Egyptian fez – and
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It’s not just that Simon Callow likes to keep busy. When you look at what he has achieved as an actor, director,
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For a theatre company whose speciality is things going wrong, Mischief Theatre has an uncanny knack of stacking up success after success.
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The 22-year collaboration between choreographer Matthew Bourne and designer Lez Brotherston has produced a string of internationally acclaimed shows – the all-male
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One hundred and fifty years ago, in April 1866, Charles Dickens visited the majestic St George’s Hall in Liverpool to give one
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Norfolk is not a county you normally associate with seasonal glamour and excess, yet it plays host to two of the UK’s
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One way of breaking through the traditional class, ethnic and gender-specific parameters of backstage disciplines is by apprenticeships, and few organisations have
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Magic has been around since the dawn of man, but it wasn’t until the latter half of the 19th century that it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTen years ago, Jonathan Suffolk was an electrician’s mate on a building site in Monmouth. Today, he is technical director of the
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Legend has it that Ibsen kept a portrait of Strindberg, his junior by 21 years, over his desk wherever he worked. “I
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When Riverside Studios reopens its west London base in two years’ time, following an extensive redevelopment costing up to £50 million, it
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Young actors looking at Clive Francis today, still fit and funny and youthful at 70, must feel in awe of his extraordinarily
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMIt is 25 years since the death of Peggy Ramsay. She was the eccentric doyenne of theatrical literary agents for nearly half
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Penny Downie looks visibly shaken. “God, I’m not nearly interesting enough,” she exclaims when I show her the amount of space her
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The patron saint of mediocrity is back. Antonio Salieri returns to the National Theatre to do battle with his arch nemesis Wolfgang
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLaurie Marsh is a one-off. Not only does he confound every known cliche about property tycoons, being highly cultured and tirelessly philanthropic,
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Whether it’s a severed head, a talking toilet or an exploding house you’re after, prop-makers and special effects company Artem has seldom
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Even as a child growing up in the 1960s, Matthew Lloyd was saddened to find that his ancestor, the celebrated Victorian music
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Possibly because he has been absent from our shores for five years, you feel the extraordinary journey of Kwame Kwei-Armah, from a
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Front of house is the first point of contact between the customer and the theatre. Every theatre manager knows that it is
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Since it was established 60 years ago, the National Youth Theatre has provided a launchpad for, among others, Daniel Day-Lewis, Helen Mirren,
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