Ralph Koltai, who has died at the age of 94, was the most influential stage designer in British theatre in the second
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMA prolific writer, Janet Paisley was an accomplished poet, novelist and playwright who won the Peggy Ramsay award in 1996 for her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMHaving worked with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on My Very Own Story in 1993 and again in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:06AMHaving shown herself to be a classical actor of promise with the Bristol Old Vic and Old Vic in the first years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMAs the novelist Jack Sugden newly returned home to take over the eponymous Emmerdale Farm in ITV’s pioneering lunchtime soap, Andrew Burt
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMIn his 25-year stewardship of London’s Open Air Theatre, David Conville transformed the venue into an essential fixture in the capital’s theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:07AMTwenty years after its first outing at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, Paul Boyd’s colourful helter-skelter ride down a rabbit hole into Wonderland returns
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:37AMIn his native Canada,Douglas Rain was revered as a classical actor of stature, having been a member of the founding company of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:56AMJohn Bluthal was known to successive generations of television viewers from the 1960s onwards for his appearances in Never Mind the Quality,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMBrian Kirk’s first theatre job, as a novice flyman at London’s Palace Theatre in 1968 working on David Heneker’s Stanley Baxter-starring musical
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMNtozake Shange’s For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf was only the second play by a black woman
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMFew figures championed regional theatre in Britain in the second half of the last half century so steadfastly or successfully as John
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:53AMAs the Royal Court Theatre’s international director for more than 20 years, Elyse Dodgson introduced British audiences to writers and plays from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMAs the actor Rio Fanning and writer Michael Robartes, the son of Irish playwright AP Fanning led a double life – one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMIn a turbulent half-century, Belfast’s Lyric Theatre has survived bombings, irate resignations and a costly rebuild. Michael Quinn looks at how the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMCicely Berry’s influence on the speaking of text, on the physicality of actors’ vocal performances and the central importance of a body-and-mind
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMA chance encounter and a small act of kindness reverberates in the lives of three women to transformative effect in Marie Jones’
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMTogether with his writing partner Alan Simpson, Ray Galton was a titan of radio and television comedy with the era-defining Hancock’s Half
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMWhen she moved to Scotland in 2005, the Brisbane-born dancer and choreographer Janis Claxton brought with her a formidable can-do attitude that
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMDudley Sutton was lately famous as the tweed-suited, beret-wearing Tinker Dill, roguish sidekick to Ian McShane’s antiques dealer Lovejoy for eight years
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMState support for the arts in the Republic of Ireland will reach its highest level in more than a decade in 2019,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:17AMThe agent Janet Glass was a formidable but graceful champion of overlooked plays, agitating for new work, and a devoted, indefatigable defender
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMIn the landmark 1976 adaptation of Robert Graves’ I, Claudius, Sheila White was involved in one of British television’s most controversial scenes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMFor a generation of television viewers, John Line will be remembered as the dashing Dr Andrew Shaw who set pulses racing in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMWith a career spanning six decades, Margaret D’Arcy, who has died at the age of 100, was the doyenne of Northern Irish
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:22PMBest known as the villainous Servalan in Terry Nation’s cult sci-fi classic Blake’s 7 (1978-81) and eponymous monster in Hammer Horror’s The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMIf Stephen Jeffreys’ relationship with the West End was never quite what he deserved, fringe companies and regional venues were quick to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMWith a voice of sirenic silkiness, a permanent pout, eyes that enticed and a mane of mesmerising brunette hair, Fenella Fielding was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:46AMLiz Fraser will be best remembered as the dizzy blonde who appeared in various guises in the early Carry On films in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMFemale playwrights made up 28% of content by living writers at the National Theatre in 2017/18, despite the organisation’s ongoing target of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:42AMAppropriately enough for a writer who profiled the often absurdly incongruous domestic life of an America in the ascendant in the second
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