Monday, March 19, 2012
Natalie Woolman's article about the Live Music Bill (March 15, page 5) contains good and bad news for performers and public.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMFriday, March 16, 2012
"Don't tell him, Pike" was the immortal line issued in response to the command, "Vot is your name?" uttered by the U-boat captain played by Phillip Madoc in Dad's Army. I was saddened to hea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMWhereas I really appreciated Susan Elkin's article written about the Academy of Live and Recording Arts (March 8, p14), I must correct the elevation to principal which was afforded me. I ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMI don't know much about opening nights and press nights, but looking at your calendar for Thursday, March 8 it seems odd that five Off-West End theatres should have new productions on the sa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMI am a third-year student at Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts and I really wanted to strongly express how invaluable it has been subscribing to The Stage during my final year of training.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:50AMSince circuses have been carefully monitored over many years, and few incidents of ill-treatment have been reported it would seem rather extreme to remove this entire form of entertainment (…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:48AMI was delighted to see your Insight feature "Councils of the Wise", (March 8, p6), and indeed I have sent a copy of it to Scarborough Borough Council.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMThursday, March 15, 2012
For experimental theatre troupe The Wooster Group, maintaining an up-to-date and relevant online presence is crucial. Artistic director Elizabeth LeCompte talks to Honour Bayes about keeping…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMActor Rob James-Collier talks to Matthew Hemley about playing the good guy in new ITV drama Love Life and what it's like working on Downton Abbey with Maggie Smith and Shirley MacLaine
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMProduction Resource Group, which serves clients in the theatre, television, concert touring, corporate and special event markets, has announced the opening of a new office in London's Covent…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMAC Entertainment Technologies (AC-ET) Ltd will be using this week's ProLight + Sound trade show (March 21-24) at the Frankfurt Messe exhibition centre to feature a selection of its establish…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMTheatreplan, the London-based theatre consultancy, has welcomed the news that the Lyric in Belfast - one of its more recently completed projects - has now scooped the accolade of the 2012 Ci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMMezzo-soprano Rita Gorr was a formidable presence on the Covent Garden stage of the Royal Opera House for more than a decade, making her debut as Amneris in Verdi's Aida in the house in 1959…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:39AMDuring a television career that lasted nearly 50 years, Peter Halliday is best remembered for a seven-part science fiction serial screened in 1961, A for Andromeda.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMAlthough he was an actor at first, Richard Carpenter found his metier as a writer, responsible most notably for the cult children's serial, Catweazle (1970-71), on London Weekend Television.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:27AMAfter starting his career impersonating George Formby, the ukulele-playing comic, Ken Goodwin made his name on The Comedians (1971-1986), the Granada TV series made up of short clips of stan…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:59AMTall and pigeon-chested, with twinkling eyes, a patrician nose, and arms that could swing like a windmill in a gale, David Kelly was one of Ireland's most recognisable and successful stage a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMWednesday, March 14, 2012
So while members of the Concert Artistes' Association are behaving like animals, another company is looking for a real animal to take part in a new production of La Boheme, which is being to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:01PMMembers of the Concert Artistes' Association, aka the club for acts and actors, are no doubt expected to create drama on stage.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMMonday, March 12, 2012
The funeral service for Barry Young, whose Stardust Club in Leicestershire presented thousands of light entertainment acts and The Stage Showcall Showcase for many years, will be held on Fri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:26AMFriday, March 9, 2012
The recent sold-out UK and European shows by US singer Nicole Scherzinger featured a lighting design by Scott Warner, who took a selection of the latest Robe technology on the road to all si…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMStage Electrics has been awarded the contract for one of the largest UK installation projects of the year at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama's new £89 million Milton Court site…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMEntertainment lighting specialist White Light recently supplied the lighting equipment for Swedish indie rock band The Sounds European tour.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMUK live event production and design practice LarMac LIVE has relocated to bigger and brighter premises on Long Lane in central London.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMThursday, March 8, 2012
At the height of the Troubles in the first half of the 1970s, Frank Carson offered an alternative view of a Northern Ireland that was busy tearing itself apart. With a cherubic face and squa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMThere are many obstacles that get in the way of a producer when planning a show. Most of them come down to money.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMA major circus exhibition has been assembled by the National Fairground Archive in Sheffield. It challenges people's perceptions of what circus is all about and sheds light on a remarkable h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMAs a second series of Scott and Bailey hits our TV screens later this month, one of its stars Lesley Sharp talks to Lalayn Baluch about why the police drama is such a hit for ITV1
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AMWe are tracing our family tree and would like to know more about an actor named Talbot Stephenson Homewood. He was born in 1868 in Ilford, Essex and died in 1967 in London. He married in Jun…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMJust a few lines to pay tribute to Frank Carson, who has died from cancer at the age of 85. When I was a Redcoat at Butlins holiday camp, Pwllheli in 1968, Frank was the resident comedian, a…
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