Thursday, August 30, 2012
As a producer of such shows as Beadle's About and TFI Friday, Stephen Joel was a highly popular figure in the television entertainment industry. He began his career in stage management worki…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMInternationally acclaimed dancer, choreographer and inspirational teacher Nigel Charnock was very much his own man. He hated the word dance, was frequently scathing in his criticism of most …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PMTwo Robert Juliat products will be making their PLASA debut at Earls Court - the new Tibo and Zep profile spotlights expanding its spotlight range with new LED and tungsten solutions. Zep is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMKinesys has appointed Cristiano Giavedoni as its marketing and business director as part of its on-going business development plan.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMEntertainment lighting specialist, White Light, is to hold its first Amateur and Schools Lighting Open Day on Sunday, September 30 at its base in Wimbledon, south west London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMColour Sound Experiment recently supplied lighting for five main operated stages and about 30 other performance areas dotted around the Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire site for the 2012 Secret Ga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMFriday, August 24, 2012
Marcus Romer, artistic director of Pilot Theatre, explains how his latest project - a six-camera interactive live stream of the York Mystery Plays - has the potential to change how audiences…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMThe expensive and sophisticated BBC/HBO co-production Parade's End delivers a call to arms to costume drama. As Maggie Brown discovers, it also presented challenges for the woman at its helm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMBoth Mark Shenton and Joanna Page raise valid points about the reality TV casting process (Casting doubt on TV talent shows, August 16, page 6; Page against the machine, August 16, page 20),…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:51AMWe have seen historic events over the last few months, whether it be the Queen's Diamond Jubilee or the Olympics. Musicians were, of course, involved in both these activities, from the wonde…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:49AMNew York has created a structure for classification of its theatres that assists the theatregoer. There are the main Broadway houses, then Off-Broadway, Off-Off-Broadway and even Off-Off-Off…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMNever let it be said that winning Britain's Got Talent doesn't lead to wonderful things. Tabard hears that last year's winners of the ITV talent series, Ashleigh Butler and her dancing dog P…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMPoor old Hugh Grant. When he isn't suffering stage fright on the sets of his movies, he's being refused entrance into Edinburgh Fringe shows.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMThursday, August 23, 2012
As a leading theatre advertising agent in the West End, Joan Fry had clients in both the commercial and subsidised sectors of theatre. She was a director of Mentor, an agency where she had s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:40AMIn studios boasting state of the art acoustics and mixing desks, Keith Grant was much in demand as a recording engineer. During the 1960s and 1970s, he worked with some of the most popular m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMWednesday, August 22, 2012
As the bassist with Elton John's band for the past 20 years, Bob Birch played to vast audiences all over the world, including 200,000 music fans at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:31PMFour men created the hit musical Hairspray - one of them was Mark O'Donnell, who wrote the book with Thomas Meehan. While the show was still enjoying a six-year run on Broadway, the West End…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:29PMJohn Pitt, who died on July 29, was one of the most successful figures in production management over the last four decades. He was known to many for his work on Birmingham Repertory Theatre'…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMMonday, August 20, 2012
A lovely lady has, for many years, devoted her time free of charge while inspiring children of all age groups in theatrical arts.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMMark Ritchie's survey of summer season entertainment around the coast - under that hoary old title Pier Pressure (August 16, page 18) - contains some notable omissions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMI can vouch for Keith Salberg's memory being as sharp as ever (Salberg's total recall, August 16, page 36). Aside from using Keith's agency services in a past life, I continue to use his kno…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMThe Leicester Haymarket Theatre opened in 1973 and enjoyed many years of success until it closed its doors for the last time in 2006. A huge number of staff, actors and people who were invol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMI read Richard Anthony Baker's obituary of Simon Ward (August 9, page 35) with great interest. In 1984, along with other amateur performers in York, I was fortunate to appear alongside Ward …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMCongratulations are due to the marketeers and tour bookers of Angelina Ballerina - The Mousical for ensuring that none of the receiving venues for this delightful show for younger theatregoe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMTabard knows that unions often struggle to get members, but this week Equity took its quest to boost subscriptions to a new level. It wrote to the Queen and asked her to sign up.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMThis week, Alice Cooper joined the cast of Rock of Ages at London's Shaftesbury Theatre to perform his song School's Out, marking the 40th anniversary of the single making it to the top of t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMFriday, August 17, 2012
Contracting a severe form of ME at the age of 44, Paddy Masefield, until then a busy director and playwright, began a new career as a campaigner for the rights of disabled people in theatres…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:50PMAt an extraordinary Academy Awards ceremony in 1974, no fewer than three Oscars went to the same man - the composer Marvin Hamlisch. He received two awards - best score and best song - for…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PMTraditional seaside venues are this summer still pulling in the punters, confounding the prophets of doom, writes Mark Ritchie
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMThursday, August 16, 2012
Joanna Page might be best known as one half of the loveable Gavin and Stacey, but Matthew Hemley finds that the actor, currently starring in Sky1's new comedy series Gates, has a fierce pass…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMWednesday, August 15, 2012
Bow Arts Trust, the east London arts educational charity, has become the recipient of the first major installation of Artistic Licence Engineering's new modular Multichrome Tube LED fixtures.
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