David Collings came to acting without any formal training having begun his working life as a font designer. He went on to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAlthough she will forever be remembered as two glamorous 1960s icons – the leather-clad, judo-savvy Catherine Gale in The Avengers (1962-64) and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMDuring his 18-year tenure as general director of the Royal Opera House from 1970, John Tooley guided the historic Covent Garden institution
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:17AMEddie Large, one half of the most successful British comedy partnership of the 1980s, has died from coronavirus while undergoing treatment for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMThe fiercely intelligent, emotionally concentrated John Shrapnel roamed freely across stage, screen and radio with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06PMTerrence McNally will be remembered best for his courage in placing the vicissitudes of homosexual life and experience on the mainstream stage,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMFive-time Tony award-winner Terrence McNally has died from coronavirus-related complications at the age of 81. The playwright’s death, on March 24, was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54AMThe leading Irish theatre designer of her generation, Monica Frawley’s sets often seemed infused with an elemental quality that imbued the poetic,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMFrances Cuka came to early and sensational attention as Jo, the errant schoolgirl caught on the cusp of adulthood, in Shelagh Delaney’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMZoe Caldwell was already a star in her native Australia when she arrived in Britain in 1958 to join the Shakespeare Memorial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54PMJohn Travis occupied many roles in a long and distinguished career, but it was his pioneering work as an archivist with London
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:54PMIn the 1970s, Julia Breck regularly found herself as a glamorous, often scantily clad, participant in television comedies that revelled in near-the-knuckle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMAs the founder of the New End Theatre in Hampstead and Camden’s Offstage Downstairs, Buddy Dalton was a leading figure in London’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:36AMPaying tribute in the Guardian, the playwright Christopher Hampton described Tom Erhardt as being “in his heyday perhaps the most knowledgeable theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAfter training at RADA and making her stage debut in 1940 in her native Glasgow’s Alhambra Theatre, later becoming a member of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMA pioneering figure who transformed the teaching of spoken English, Jocelyn Bell paved the way for a less mannered, more colloquial approach
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:36PMFor more than 25 years, Marjorie Bates Murphy served as The Stage’s North West correspondent, contributing always insightful reviews from her first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMOne of the finest and most admired Shakespeare directors of the last half-century, Terry Hands co-founded the Liverpool Everyman, led the Royal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMTerry Jones was first among equals in the era-defining ensemble that launched Monty Python’s Flying Circus on unsuspecting television viewers used to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMBy the time he shot to fame as the footman Edward in Upstairs Downstairs in 1971, Christopher Beeny had been performing for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMEast 15 graduate Reg Stewart was a jobbing actor who lent reliability and a guarantee of a well-turned performance to a career
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMAs artistic director of the Everyman Cheltenham for 12 years from 1971, Malcolm Farquhar transformed the fortunes of the Frank Matcham-designed venue.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:49AMFor the generation who grew up watching television in the early 1970s, Derek Fowlds will be best remembered as Basil Brush’s long-suffering
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMCiaran McIntyre was a consummate ensemble player who worked with the Royal Shakespeare Company, in the West End and in regional theatres
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMWhen The Stage noted in 1986 that “at the moment the West End owes more to the engineering skills of Mike Barnett
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMSheila Mercier will be best remembered as the stern matriarch Annie Sugden in ITV’s Emmerdale Farm (latterly, Emmerdale) for 22 years from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMMore than anyone in recent times, Ian Smith championed the comic operas of Gilbert and Sullivan that had once dazzled and defined
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMHailed by The Stage’s former editor Peter Hepple as “the master melodist of our time”, Jerry Herman was arguably the last of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:24AMJean Fergusson spent nearly half of her career as the femme fatale Marina in Roy Clarke’s Last of the Summer Wine. She
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMWhen Tony Britton, who has died aged 95, was seen as Gloucester alongside Joss Ackland’s King Lear in rehearsed readings directed by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMNicky Henson was an actor of considerable, if lightly worn, resources blessed with leading man looks. Both qualities served him well in
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