Wednesday, 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.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:18AMAC Special Projects has launched a new social media initiative to enable the company to network with its customer base, including providing immediate updates on installations news, trade sho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMOrganisers of the third annual PLASA Rigging Conference, taking place at the Earls Court Conference Centre, September 10-11, are promising a top programme of seminars - the event set to clos…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMPreviewing from August 31 at the Bristol Hippodrome, The Lion King UK tour will be one of the heaviest touring productions in the UK, according to Unusual Rigging, which undertook an extensi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMA shortlist of lighting designers nominated for this year's Knight of Illumination Awards has been released, including nominees for specialist theatre award categories - drama, musicals, ope…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:07AMFriday, August 10, 2012
The new production of Spamalot has been pared down but not at the expense of laughs or its Pythonesque essence, composer John Du Prez and star Bonnie Langford tell Lisa Martland
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMThe caustic words of a critic helped put paid to Peter Michael Marino's West End flop Desperately Seeking Susan but his one-man show based on his experiences is attracting plenty of attentio…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMITV will soon be screening the drama Mrs Biggs, the true story of Charmian Biggs, ex-wife of the great train robber Ronnie. Tabard hears the broadcaster held a press screening of the drama t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTalking of robbery, Tabard hears reporters at The Stage felt a little robbed this week. The newsdesk team had been looking forward to a launch party at the New Wimbledon Theatre to herald tw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTabard is well aware of the lengths performers will go to just to get some publicity for their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show - why, just last week we heard how Peter Michael Marino had writ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTabard has never liked clowns much. That Stephen King film, It, was the last straw. The sleepless nights caused by that flick just don't bear thinking about. And why would anyone hire a man …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:22AMThursday, August 9, 2012
I can't understand why we have not seen an obituary for Eric Sykes, especially with his long and distinguished history in the business. Doesn't he deserve one?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38PMI would like any information on a 1950s vocalist named Jimmy Day. He sang with various bands, and at one time was with Harry Gold and His Pieces of Eight, when he was billed, I believe, as J…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:37PMIn your calendar for the week commencing August 2 until August 8 (Listings, August 2, page 30), it was surprising to see that three of the 11 listed productions has a YO postcode - one in Wh…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMHaving read about the difficulties for our profession in obtaining any normally required insurance (News, August 9, front page), I feel I should share my experience.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMOn the subject of old material being repeated on TV (Stage Talk, August 2, page 7), it is certainly the case that series such as Sykes and Steptoe and Son are being shown on Gold.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMTabard has never liked clowns much. That Stephen King film, It, was the last straw. The sleepless nights caused by that flick just don't bear thinking about. And why would anyone hire a man …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMTabard is well aware of the lengths performers will go to just to get some publicity for their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show - why, just last week we heard how Peter Michael Marino had writ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMWednesday, August 8, 2012
Usually cast as a lovable rogue, Geoffrey Hughes spent ten years providing much of the comedy in Coronation Street as Eddie Yates, an ex-convict who was constantly embarking on schemes to ge…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMAdorned by a cascading halo of rich red, ringletted hair, Angharad Rees was one of the most recognisable faces on television in the second half of the 1970s, becoming a household name as the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMAs artistic director of the Prospect Theatre Company, Toby Robertson carved an impeccable reputation for the group in the latter half of the 1960s and the whole of the 1970s.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:52PMPioneering rock and classical musician and composer Jon Lord, co-founder of Deep Purple, has died aged 71.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMMaurice Stewart, who died weeks short of his 80th birthday on June 3, was a consummate theatre professional. I met him through Sussex Playwrights after he moved to Brighton, and am currently…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMMichael Geliot was just 25 when he produced the first of what would be many British opera premieres, staging Rolf Liebermann's School for Wives in 1958 during his tenure as director of the C…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:48PMLondon-based lighting and visuals rental company Colour Sound Experiment recently provided lighting, trussing, rigging, power distribution and crew for performing arts school Makin' Steps' e…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMEntertainment lighting specialist, White Light, has announced the arrival for hire of Viper, a new high-performance moving light from Martin Professional.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMThe Lyric, Belfast, is among The Royal Institution of British Architects' shortlist of six buildings to be considered for its 2012 Stirling prize.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:57AMAC Entertainment Technologies Ltd has supplied a custom front of house lighting position curved truss, complete with CM Lodestar chain hoists, a bespoke motor controller and power distributi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMTuesday, August 7, 2012
TV review: Mad Mad World; The Hit Factory - The Stock, Aitken and Waterman Story
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:43PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Talking of robbery, Tabard hears reporters at The Stage felt a little robbed this week. The newsdesk team had been looking forward to a launch party at the New Wimbledon Theatre to herald tw…
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