Friday, February 24, 2012
I was heartened to see in Susan Elkin's education blog on 15 February that, through Deutsche Bank's sponsorship of the Globe's Education Department, 20,000 school pupils across the whole of …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMMany residents of Stratford upon Avon feel that the Courtyard Theatre, (known as the Rusty Shed) should now be dismantled because they see it as nothing more than an embarrassing eyesore.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMPerhaps if David J Savage used a dictionary of British English, as opposed to the American Webster's, he would find a more accurately descriptive definition of "fulsome" as overdone, cloying…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMConcerns reported in The Stage about the inadequate prominence of named performers on TV credits (Stage Talk, February 16 and 23, page 8), together with suggested reforms of the structures o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThursday, February 23, 2012
That Susan Hill is a feisty one. Tabard always suspected this was the case, as someone lacking in feist could not have penned such a chilling story as The Woman in Black, but it was nice to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMThere are some things in life that even your poor scribe Tabard does not expect. Try as we might with crystal balls and tea leaves, some events cannot be foreseen and must be seen to be beli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMInsight and communications specialists, Crestron, is set to formally unveil its new UK design and experience centre near Leeds, on March 1.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMA new installation business, Push the Button (PTB), has been launched by Nick Ewins, now managing director of the new venture. "PTB's full time staff members, alongside our team of skilled s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMThe Producers, a high calibre music collective, will be performing an exclusive concert on March 1, along with holding a Q&A session, for some 170 Tech Music School (TMS) students at Bush Ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMLiverpool-based Adlib Solutions has supplied lighting and sound packages for US (Las Vegas) pop rock duo, Panic At The Disco's, recent UK tour including full production for the Manchester Ap…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:03AMBBC costume designer Michael James Burdle died, aged 69, on February 9 after a period of ill-health. Born on March 30, 1942, Michael, in 1985, won a BAFTA for Bleak House. He designed costum…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMWednesday, February 22, 2012
Noel Kelehan was one of Ireland's most accomplished musicians and conductors. A jazz pianist hailed as the best to emerge on the island, he was also the most successful conductor in the 56-y…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:28AMTuesday, February 21, 2012
Malcolm Taylor, actor, director and producer, was born on November 8, 1937, in Kendal, Cumbria and brought up in Lancaster.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMTony was born on December 22, 1933. His first career, in Nottingham, was as a telephone engineer. This was quickly cut short when a scholarship to RADA plunged him abruptly into a different …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMI met Fleur Chandler, who died on December 15, 2011, aged 63, at the RSC while working on Terry Hand's production of Coriolanus. Fleur played Virgilia to Alan Howard's Coriolanus. Actor Gabr…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:47AMWhen his Merchant Navy freighter was torpedoed and sunk en route to Malta in 1942, the 17-year-old Frederick Treves saved several shipmates and was awarded the British Empire Medal for brave…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMFriday, February 17, 2012
The Poor School lost all electronic and paper records in a fire last June and we are currently trying to establish contact with ex-graduates so as to rebuild our database.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMFor over six decades I've been a regular recipient of The Stage and occasional contributor to the now defunct Heydays page. Each week I look with morbid curiosity at the obituary section to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMI would like to hear from anyone who may have worked with Francess and Anna May Watt - daughters of ventriloquist Valentine Prince - who, in the 1950s, were known as The Prince Sisters and F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMIt was interesting to read the correspondence about the rolling credits at the end of TV programmes (Stage Talk, February 16, page 8). Am I one of the few people who buys the Radio Times jus…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMConcerns reported in The Stage (February 2, page 4) about the inadequate prominence of named performers on TV credits, together with suggested reforms of the structures of Equity (page 5, Fe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMMany in the entertainment business across the UK will be familiar with family-run Gaby's Deli in Charing Cross Road as a favourite feeding station prior or post auditions and performances. G…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:29AMMatthew Hemley's article, Living the Dream (The Stage Online, February 10) explores the industry's perception of TV casting shows and seems to conclude that they are here to stay. That may w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMPaying experienced dance professionals badly to appear in ballet, contemporary and musical theatre productions has been a scandal for decades now (The Stage, February 9, page 2). I would sim…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMPhilip Ridley tells Aleks Sierz about his new play Shivered and why the revival of his 1991 work The Pitchfork Disney has even more relevance to today's YouTube and reality TV-obsessed soci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMAs Singin' in the Rain opens at the Palace Theatre, Adam Cooper talks to Matthew Hemley about facing cynicism when he progressed into musical theatre and why he no longer reads his reviews
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMAs his latest play In Basildon opens at London's Royal Court, playwright David Eldridge talks to Matt Trueman about how his Essex heritage impacts on his work and why the position of the wri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMNearly 300 Robe lighting LED fixtures were employed recently in a groundbreaking lighting design by Andy Hurst at the 2012 Total Production International Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMThursday, February 16, 2012
As the stern disciplinarian Inspector Monroe in ITV's long-running The Bill, Colin Tarrant was a familiar television face for more than a decade, appearing in nearly 600 episodes of the poli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:54PMA piano virtuoso, Robert Lockhart turned to writing music after finding the rigours of live performance to be overwhelming. His talent for arranging and conducting in the studio led to many …
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