Thursday, November 26, 2015
If you could bottle Roy Hudd’s energy and sell it over the counter, we’d all live to be 120. Interviewing the convivial
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It wouldn’t have occurred to him at the time, but the title of Harley Granville Barker’s play Waste, which has just opened
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“It’s nice to think people will take a punt on a little studio theatre outside of town,” says Simon Reilly, for the
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In a sense we have Michael Crawford to thank for David Ian. Had he not been so good in the long-forgotten 1974
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Few designer-director relationships are as close or symbiotic as that of Stewart Laing and Richard Jones, who are working together on Eugene
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PM“A deep-voiced prima donna who drove authors and managers to despair,” was how John Gielgud described his friend Mrs Patrick Campbell after
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It doesn’t seem long ago that the 18-year-old Jessie Buckley was confidently strutting her stuff on Saturday night TV in the talent
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Even before Les Mis stiffened the global sinews, Cats was purring and prowling its way round the world in the early 1980s,
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The working conditions are, shall we say, cosy. Four floors up, the cluttered two-room costume department and laundry room at the Queen’s
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At 21, Cathy Tyson had the world at her feet. She’d been plucked from obscurity by director Neil Jordan to star in
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It all began with a letter in the Manchester Guardian, as it then was, on July 11 1907, announcing that Miss AEF
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A beaming Marcia Warren greets me effusively as I enter the foyer of the Coronet, Notting Hill, the latest addition to London’s
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It was the year in which the American Civil War ended and Lewis Carroll published Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland. In Nottingham, 1865
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If you had to guess what Will Tuckett did for a living, ballet dancer probably wouldn’t be top of your list. He
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There was no tradition of reading books in the seaside town of Buncrana, Donegal, where he grew up, so the innately bookish
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Jessica Swale can hardly remember a time when she didn’t want to work in the theatre. Growing up in Berkshire with a
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One of the most luminous stars of the silent era, Louise Brooks has been all but erased from cinema history. Only a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:38PMSo gobsmacking is the magic of War Horse and The Lion King that the time, effort and expertise that goes into making
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No theatre is recession-proof but Guildford’s Yvonne Arnaud, 50 years old this year, does appear to be peculiarly blessed when it comes
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For the first time in the competition’s 50-year history, the Young Magician of the Year is a female performer this year. The
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Few jobs require people skills to the same extent as a theatrical agent. As well as having to reassure anxious clients on
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The primacy of Ambassador Theatre Group brings with it, among other things, a lot of employment. Within the theatre operator’s 38 UK
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The paradox of the older jobbing actor is that, while he or she may be happy to carry on working into extreme
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It is tempting to ask Craig Revel Horwood, scourge of the Strictly also-rans, to rate my interview technique from one to 10,
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Think of an end-of-the-pier show and most of us think of something from another age, such as the pierrot-costumed troupe acting out
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From TV’s Sunday Night at the London Palladium to the long-running end-of-the-pier show in Cromer, Ian Westbrook’s career as a set designer
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It is 20 years since she left the mad world of Craggy Island behind her, but you feel it wouldn’t take a
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Ironically it was a flop that led to Ron Moody being cast as Fagin in the landmark 1960 production of Lionel Bart’s
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The scene is a cramped interview room adjacent to the National Theatre press office. Enter Peter Wight, bearing a plate of fish
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The fear, as expressed by former National Theatre director Nicholas Hytner and others, that filmed theatre would look like a lot of
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Talking to six times BAFTA winner Eileen Diss is like trawling through a history of BBC television drama. Now in her 80s,
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