Wednesday, January 4, 2017
Graeme Cruickshank was one of a generation of stage managers and technicians whose careers covered major changes in theatre practice and who
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMMonday, October 31, 2016
Tara Arts’ reconfigured base was made possible when Network Rail granted the south London theatre company a lease on a small plot
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, October 10, 2016
How do you bring a hit television programme to the stage? It’s a question that’s been asked before and successfully answered on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, August 29, 2016
As a result of the success of the Roundabout portable theatre, its designers, Lucy Osborne, Emma Chapman and Howard Eaton, formed a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, July 25, 2016
There are a number of obstacles to attracting a wider and more diverse workforce into the expanding creative industries. The range of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, June 22, 2016
To describe Francis Reid as a lighting designer fails to do justice to a man who has been described as “a theatremaker
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:56AMMonday, June 6, 2016
The problem of presenting evermore technically demanding shows is faced by many of our older theatre buildings and the independently owned grade
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, May 30, 2016
The next time you consider turning down a tour because of a split week between Hull and Taunton, think about the Shakespeare’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMMonday, April 25, 2016
In the past few years developments in digital recording and broadcasting technology have advanced with speed. One result has been the opportunity
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMMonday, March 21, 2016
When did you last see a sound technician operating sound-effects cues on a show? This question, posed by Stage Management Association executive
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMWednesday, February 24, 2016
Scene painting has this in common with Mark Twain: reports of its death have been greatly exaggerated. Of course the nature of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMTuesday, February 16, 2016
You might think that those aspiring to a career backstage have sufficient information available to them to understand not only what jobs
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, December 29, 2015
If your seasonal fare is confined to pantomime then it would be easy to think that technical theatre has not made many
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMTuesday, December 15, 2015
Foster Wilson Architects is no stranger to designing theatres in schools and educational establishments, having completed a dozen or more over the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, December 1, 2015
On November 10, the TheatreCraft event was held for the fourth time at the Royal Opera House. It was crowded with young
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMonday, November 30, 2015
The star trap may no longer be the standard method of entry for pantomime’s Demon King, but he still usually gets a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, November 25, 2015
In 1972, the Theatre Royal in Portsmouth was seriously damaged by a fire believed to have been set off by children lighting
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMWednesday, November 4, 2015
Damian Robertson, lighting improviser on the West End run of Showstopper! The Improvised Musical, tells me: “I’m not really suited to long
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMRecently, sound design seems to have entered a new era, with greater use of binaural techniques in recording and reproduction and the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:15AMWednesday, August 12, 2015
There is a Scottish endurance challenge whereby you have to visit every peak of the Cairngorms in three days. There was a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, July 14, 2015
AK Bennett-Hunter reports on the recent Theatres Trust conference on Valuing Theatres, where the focus was firmly on the importance of theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSunday, June 21, 2015
The ABTT Theatre Show is in its 36th year and, in defiance of some cynics in the past, has survived competition from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMTuesday, May 26, 2015
Home in Manchester has been formed by the merger of Cornerhouse art gallery and cinema and the Library Theatre Company, and officially
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMMonday, May 11, 2015
If Alan Ayckbourn’s Way Upstream is not so often performed as some of his other plays then it is less to do
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, April 21, 2015
If you want to go to the opera then the Science Museum is not the most obvious place. Neither is an IMAX
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMTuesday, April 14, 2015
Hard on the heels of the Festival Theatre in Chichester and the Stirling Award-winning Everyman in Liverpool, the £80 million refurbishment of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThursday, April 9, 2015
Five years ago, the Chinese authorities opened a huge ecological park in the south of the country, only 25 miles north of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, April 7, 2015
Education and outreach are increasingly central to the work of all arts organisations. Libraries are being encouraged to become a source of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMTuesday, March 17, 2015
“It’s that simple”, Nii Sackey, chief executive of Bigga Fish, repeated again and again. He suggested that if we all employed someone
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMTuesday, March 3, 2015
I am in the Ballroom area at the Royal Festival Hall and a sound check is in progress. The sound operator is
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSunday, January 4, 2015
AK Bennett-Hunter looks back on a year that has seen Charlie and the Chocolate Factory pushing the boundaries in its use of automated scenery, and video projection finding its place as a sce…
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