Monday, July 23, 2012
You are to be congratulated on your article Radio's Renaissance (July 12, page 30), in which Jeremy Howe and Gwyneth Williams voiced their hopes that this will happen.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMAlistair Smith provided a fair coverage of recent Equity election results (News, July 19, page 4), but comparing voting figures with those of the previous election in 2010 provides some inte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMFriday, July 20, 2012
In the 1960s, three-quarters of a million children belonged to the Tingha and Tucker fan club to prove their allegiance to two koala bear glove puppets who appeared in an ITV show with Jean …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMAlf Pearson and his brother, Bob, were a linchpin of the old-time variety theatre, and worked together for an amazing 57 years. They sang all sorts of songs, always introduced by their short…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMThursday, July 19, 2012
'Relaxed' show stagings enable families of children with special sensory and communication needs to experience theatre in an environment where it is accepted - and expected - that audience m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMMonday, July 16, 2012
Manchester-based lighting and visuals rental company DBN recently supplied stage, DVD, audience and architectural lighting for Elbow's concert at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, home…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMXL Video supplied 400 square metres of its latest Pixled F-12 LED screen - configured as 12 screens, ten of which moved - plus cameras, PPU and crew for the Stone Roses three recent homecomi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMEleven college principals from across the UK met recently to discuss extending the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural to benefit creative businesses, practitioners and young p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMFlightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has expanded its HQ and manufacturing facility in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, adding 4,700 square feet of production units.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMFor many years now I have been marketing myself and in 2009 set up my own company, DGS Music. I have been very passionate and driven to succeed in getting my name out there, and have been fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMThe first magician to introduce parakeets and later budgerigars into his act, Jack Kodell played the London Palladium, the London Hippodrome and the Savoy Hotel. In the act entitled A Fantas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMAn actor of exceptionally wide range, James Grout reached his apotheosis in Inspector Morse (1987-2000), the ITV series centred on investigations carried out by a senior crime investigations…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMFor more than 40 years John Percival wrote numerous ballet critiques for many publications, including latterly The Stage, and his output was prolific. He was The Times ballet critic from 196…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMTabard has been provided with much amusement this week, often over - outwardly - the most mirth-free of matters. We wonder whether the constant deluge of rain has somehow made us delirious, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMTabard is often bemused by Freudian slips. One never knows just where a slip of the tongue might lead you. One momentary lapse and, before you know it, journalists are recycling your faux pa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:21AMWith the death of Eric Sykes, we have lost another veteran performer, who, like Spike Milligan, had seen action during the Second World War and had been so prominent on TV and radio and in f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMRegarding Ian Seale's letter (Stage Talk, July 11, page 6), Equity factions have had a lot of criticism lately from him. The forming of a group is initiated by the meeting of minds and has b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMFriday, July 13, 2012
As part of some research for a forthcoming book I am trying to track down the actress Gay Singleton, who had many television, film and stage credits in the 60s and 70s.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMWhile it is encouraging to read of the success of the launch of the Michael Grandage season and the new Spice Girls musical, it is equally good when you come across local productions that hi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00PMElfriede Jelinek, the Nobel prize-winning Austrian playwright, novelist and poet, is renowned for politically charged, challenging works as much as for an unconventional dramatic writing sty…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50PMIt commissions 150 plays a year, many of which have audiences of up to one million, but Radio 4 is still best known for its current affairs output. Ben Dowell meets two executives determined…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:38PMThursday, July 12, 2012
Prolyte Products UK Limited, a subsidiary of Prolyte Group, has acquired Hertfordshire-based, stage set fabrication company, Brilliant Stages, a multiple award winner in the design and const…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMAC Entertainment Technologies Ltd has supplied a quantity of LED-based lighting fixtures from entertainment lighting manufacturers, Chroma-Q, PixelRange and GLP to the BBC's Radio Theatre fa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMRobe Robin MMX Spots and LEDWash 600s were the main moving lights used by lighting designer, Phil Shaw, for a recent, one-off show at north London's, Alexandra Palace by indie rockers, The M…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMLondon-based projection artist, Ross Ashton, of the Projection Studio, has had his recent Face Britain video projection work on the front of Buckingham Palace officially confirmed as a Guinn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMMonday, July 9, 2012
I assume the North-West London Equity Branch is in touch with the producers of Viva Forever!, insisting that 50% of the Spice Girls are played by men?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMI was desperately sad to learn that the front row of the stalls at the Olivier, National Theatre are henceforth - despite a solemn undertaking given by Peter Hall before the move from the Ol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:29AMAmid all the claims and counter claims about groups and factions within Equity, following on from Ian Seale's self-satisfied letter (Stage Talk, June 14, page 8) and Barbara Hyslop's somewha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AMAnthony Field cites the plight of would-be graduates wishing to enter the arts world (Stage Talk, June 28, page 8) as it now stands. Indeed, where are these jobs? There appears to exist a no…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMI have been bemused in recent weeks by the opinions expressed on factions within our union. In politics, religions, quangos, banking, boardrooms, clubs, pubs and management teams the self-in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMI have read the responses to my letter (Stage Talk, June 14, page 8) from representatives of the two current Equity Factions - Barbara Hyslop, on behalf of the Members' Group (Stage Talk, Ju…
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