Friday, March 30, 2012
We welcome your positive coverage of the recent developments at the Gaiety (Ayr's Gaiety Theatre moves closer to reopening, Stage online, March 27), and would like to add a few more details …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMKander and Ebb, who gave us Chicago and Cabaret, also wrote and scored Curtains. But despite opening in Los Angeles and running for over 500 performances on Broadway, it has never been perfo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:20AMI am very much looking forward to seeing Caroline O'Connor as Momma Rose in Gypsy in a couple of weeks' time at the Curve in Leicester.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMPJ Jones, who wanted to find out about the theatrical career of Talbot Homewood (March 15, Stage Talk, page 9), could do no better than consult The Stage online archive, where he will find 1…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMFat Friends creator Kay Mellor has revealed that the loss of Arts Council England funding suffered by Leeds-based dance organisation Jabadao inspired her to write her new BBC1 drama, The Syn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:56AMThursday, March 29, 2012
Rigging Services, based in Birmingham, will be conducting live demonstrations of the features, benefits and changes to its online shop RS Direct from its stand RA-C14 at PLASA Focus (Leeds A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMBlack Light's next pyrotechnic training course takes place on April 30 at the Lyceum, Edinburgh.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMThe organisers of The ABTT 2012 Theatre Show (June 13 and 14), having recently recorded very healthy visitor registrations - some 1,000 in just two days - state that exhibitors appear equall…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:27AMHSL, the Blackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, is supplying lighting equipment, a 26-axes Kinesys automation system, all associated trussing and rigging plus crew to Snow Patr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:15AMMonday, March 26, 2012
Together with his brother Richard, Robert Bernard Sherman defined the musical sound of Disney movies in the 1960s with scores and songs for now classic films including Mary Poppins, The Jung…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMSixty years after her stage and film debut performances, the actress Faith Brook enjoyed the biggest success of her career. Her portrayal of an elderly woman experiencing sexual passion for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMFriday, March 23, 2012
As the West End prepares to toast its successes, Mark Shenton turns the spotlight on this year's Laurence Olivier Awards nominees and considers how they reflect the current climate of new wr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:35PMAs Jonathan Slinger leads Michael Boyd's last hurrah in the What Country Friends Is This? season at the RSC, playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Prospero in The Tempest and Dr Pinch in The Co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMAs ITV prepares for the launch of its four-part drama Titanic on Sunday, Maggie Brown reports on how the project was developed and assesses whether the series is likely to sink or swim
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMThursday, March 22, 2012
Spare a thought for the hardworking wardrobe folk working behind the scenes in the West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:14AMIt's double portions of One Man, Two Guvnors this week. We have long fancied ourselves as some kind of theatrical soothsayers. We predicted the rise of the likes of Cats and Les Miserables b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMWednesday, March 21, 2012
Funktion One has announced the launch of its new website, having undergone a complete redesign with an improved graphical interface including an extensive photo gallery and other new feature…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMWest London lighting and visuals rental company, Colour Sound Experiment, has significantly expanded its warehouse facility by handily acquiring the building right next door and, having now …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMColchester-based Illuminate Design has helped one of Britain's flagship dance theatre companies move to a new creation and rehearsal space in Ashford, Kent.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:59AMThe Kaiser Chiefs, said to be among the country's favourite live performers, are back on the road again with a characteristically boisterous set and with a four week, sold-out, UK tour just …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMMy recollection of the TV series Robin's Nest is that the character played by David Kelly (obits, March 15) was named Enda, not Arnold.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMTuesday, March 20, 2012
I was very interested to read in last week's issue the article about the Stage Management Association first ever conference (March 15, page 39).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:04PMIs Equity's governing council about to kill off democratic representation for thousands of its members after consulting just a few hundred?
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PMI see that US actor George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington DC, for demonstrating about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. In my 15 years of campaigning (agains…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:48PMMonday, March 19, 2012
Philip Madoc could speak seven languages as if they were his Welsh mother tongue and could get by in another three (Huron Indian included). He was no less eloquent in an acting career that s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:13AMDavy Jones, the diminutive, cherubic-faced vocalist of The Monkees, achieved worldwide fame as the heartthrob pin-up of the first manufactured pop band. Answering an advert for "four insane …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:27AMWhen, aged 12, Hal Roach entered a talent contest as a boy soprano and got a better response for an unrehearsed joke than for his singing, the die was cast for a career that would see him la…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMRag, Tag and Bobtail, part of the Watch With Mother children's programmes on BBC Television in the 1950s, were created by Louise Cochrane. Rag, a hedgehog, Tag, a mouse, and Bobtail, a rabbi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMAdrian Foley became the 8th Lord Foley at the age of four, following the death of his father from meningitis at the age of 29 in 1927. It was a title he held for more than 80 years, during w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:25AMNatalie Woolman's article about the Live Music Bill (March 15, page 5) contains good and bad news for performers and public.
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