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Thursday, April 26, 2012

Backstage: All change at AC by The Stage

AC Entertainment Technologies Ltd has announced the appointment of four new members of staff as well as a number of role changes within the company - the changes being part of the AC-ET's ph…

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Backstage: Adlib move by The Stage

Liverpool-based sound, lighting and AV rental specialist, Adlib, recently celebrated moving into its new warehouse in Speke, Merseyside, after what it reports has been another strong trading…

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Backstage: Awards for White Light by The Stage

White Light, which supplied the lighting equipment to the recent 2012 Olivier Awards and sponsored the Lighting Design Awards, had a number of successful award nominees in its own right.

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Backstage: Rigging the Phantom by The Stage

Unusual Rigging is providing the infrastructure to help ensure that Cameron Mackintosh's new touring production of The Phantom of the Opera plays around the UK without a hitch.

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Reshuffle at the top for The Stage by The Stage

The first changes in two decades to senior management positions at The Stage have been announced.

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Friday, April 20, 2012

Brighton Fringe: A world of possibilities by The Stage

The Brighton Fringe, now in its sixth year, has earned its place on the national cultural map as the biggest arts festival in England. Natasha Tripney talks to managing director Julian Caddy…

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Birmingham Stage Company: Fostering creativity by The Stage

Actor Neal Foster is the man at the helm of one of the most successful children's theatre outfits in the industry. As he talks Horrible Histories, the Birmingham Stage Company's latest proje…

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Wendy Scozzaro: Life of an agent by The Stage

For Wendy Scozzaro of Felix de Wolfe, one of London's oldest theatrical agencies, every day is a whirlwind of deal making but, Jason Holmes finds, her clarity of purpose and dedication are e…

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Thursday, April 19, 2012

Chicago in a league of its own by The Stage

Tabard has always felt there is something missing from the Olivier Awards, and this week it finally became clear what that something is.

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Shakespeare blows into Windy City by The Stage

From one Chicago to another now as we take you on a whirlwind adventure to that toddlin' town (a Frank Sinatra reference - if you didn't get it, shame on you). This month the mayor of the Am…

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Letter: Spell out inflated price risk by The Stage

After reading your article on 'legal ticket touting' (page 2, March 29), I can suggest a solution to the problem.

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Letter: Did legal right morass prevent Gypsy West End move? by The Stage

I was interested to read Tony Smith's letter regarding Gypsy at Leicester's Curve (April 12).

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Letter: Exorbitant fees by The Stage

I was shocked to see the range of booking fees applied (April 12).

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Obituary: Tom Lodge by The Stage

As the breakfast DJ on the first offshore pirate radio station, Radio Caroline, Tom Lodge helped to change the way in which rock music was broadcast in Britain.

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Letter: Ticketing discrimination against older people by The Stage

I read with interest your articles on West End ticket prices (April 12).

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Letter: Ticket money conundrum by The Stage

Your West End ticketing special (April 12) made very interesting reading and throws light on the problems that affects London theatregoers. I have often been lucky with day tickets but, if y…

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Backstage: Rycote opens doors by The Stage

Rycote, the Gloucestershire-based manufacturer of microphone windshields and shockmount systems, has scheduled another of its open days.

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Backstage: Forum for backstage workers by The Stage

The Association of British Theatre Technicians and the Stage Management Association held this spring's open Production Managers Forum meeting at the PLASA Focus trade show, Leeds, on April 1…

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Backstage: One Direction for HSL by The Stage

Blackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, HSL, recently supplied lighting equipment and LED screens to the first production tour of one of the UK's newest boy bands, One Direction…

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Wednesday, April 18, 2012

Obituary: Stella Tanner by The Stage

After ten years as one half of a singing duo with her sister, Stella Tanner began a successful 40-year career as a television actress.

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Friday, April 13, 2012

Obituary: Tony Cliff by The Stage

Based first in Leeds and then in Manchester, BBC radio drama producer Tony Cliff contributed an impressive stream of plays for Saturday Night Theatre on Radio 4 and other outlets. The way in…

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Obituary: John Arden by The Stage

As one of the emerging young dramatists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, John Arden was unable to share the durability of his confreres, Harold Pinter and John Osborne, partly because much…

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Obituary: Charles J O'Neill by The Stage

Charles J O'Neill began his theatrical career as a carpenter and toured the country with several musicals. He was resident at The King's Theatre Glasgow as stage manager from 1961-63 for How…

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Bring me sunshine by The Stage

As a new production of The Sunshine Boys gets set to open in London, Nick Smurthwaite examines how author Neil Simon's links with legendary vaudeville performers inspired the play

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Sheen of star quality by The Stage

As The Passion production, which took place in Port Talbot last Easter, is launched as a feature film, Sharon D Calcutt reports on the stage management of the show and recalls how the event …

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Chit chat: Britain not so great without the Paxo punch by The Stage

Jack Davenport hasn't been based on UK shores in a while. That is because, for the last few years, the actor has been living in the US, after he went there ten years ago to film what he refe…

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Chit chat: When all is said and done, I have a dream... by The Stage

From the pleasures of Newsnight to the revelries of children's entertainment - Tabard's tastes are catholic and we are willing to judge each production on its own merits. Just as well, becau…

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Thursday, April 12, 2012

Rocked by high fees by The Stage

It's not so much the price of theatre tickets that puts potential audiences off, argues Alistair Smith, it's the lack of transparency over booking fees

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Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Backstage: Growing Impact by The Stage

Impact, the trade distribution company for sound, lighting and staging, now has six new UK branches up-and-running - in Park Royal (north London), Belvedere (south London), Glasgow, Edinburg…

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Backstage: Lab.gruppen and Lake launch UK Training and Certification Programme by The Stage

Lab.gruppen and Lake have announced details of a new training and certification programme being launched next month.

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Letter: Funding was not cut through lack of merit by The Stage

Loathe as I am to contradict the minister for culture, I should point out that not all the organisations that lost their arts council revenue funding from April 1 did so on the basis of "art…

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