Nicky Henson was an actor of considerable, if lightly worn, resources blessed with leading man looks. Both qualities served him well in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:54AMBarrie Keeffe was a prolific stage and screen writer throughout the turbulent 1970s and Thatcherite 1980s whose work cast a caustic eye
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:55PMAs a child, Nell Gifford dreamed of running away to join a circus. She went one better than that, co-founding her own
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMA leading figure in Irish theatre, Niall Tóibín was familiar to British audiences for spells with the National Theatre and television appearances
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMBorn in Australia and raised in America, Tom Hodgkins came to the UK in his late teens and took a master’s in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMStage-struck from his debut in pantomime at the age of four, Ian Cullen found early television fame as a dashing David Balfour
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PMPlaywright, poet and novelist Tom MacIntyre was one of the most provocative figures in recent Irish theatre, his avantgarde-accented work challenging theatremakers
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AMJean Heywood was in her 40s before she began what was to be a long and successful acting career. Television viewers will
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMWilliam ‘Bill’ Talbot played a key behind-the-scenes role in the emergence of the Welsh television and film production industry in the 1980s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:59AMMustapha Matura, who has died aged 79, transformed the profile of domestic theatre in the 1970s and beyond as one of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:02PMActor Noel O’Donovan was a mainstay of contemporary Irish theatre who also made memorable contributions to Ireland’s homegrown television and film industries
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:45AMHailed as one of the greatest prima ballerinas of the last century, Alicia Alonso was a force of nature who dominated American
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:20AMLeah Bracknell’s 16-year spell as vet Zoe Tate in ITV’s long-running Emmerdale saw her create television history as the first regular, openly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMStephen Moore was one of the most versatile and reliable actors of his generation. A vital, always intelligent presence on stage, his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMA founding member of the National Theatre, Terence Knapp found fame on the other side of the world where he was formally
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMJuliette Kaplan, who has died aged 80, will be best remembered for her 25-year residency in Roy Clarke’s Last of the Summer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:57AMA 2% increase to arts and culture funding outlined in Ireland’s newly announced 2020 budget has been met with mixed reactions, despite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMPossessed of a voice that refused any categorisation other than its own lustrous sound, Jessye Norman, who has died aged 74, was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:34PMJohn O’Brien owed his career as a much-admired principal dancer with Ballet Rambert, and later a widely respected teacher, to the suggestion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:21PMAs the eldest child of the comedian and singer Harry Secombe, a career in showbusiness must have seemed an inevitability for Jenny
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMHailed in the UK as the inheritor of Joyce Grenfell’s mantle and in the US as “Broadway’s new comedy queen”, Anna Quayle
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:42AMNo director stamped their signature on the television costume and period drama with as much style, substance and success as James Cellan
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:48AMFew writers mined their own biography with such caustic flamboyance and mordantly gleeful disregard for opinion as Peter Nichols, who has died
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMGillian Hanna, who has died at the age of 75 after a long illness, was a protean figure in the alternative theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMA former ticket sales manager with Belfast’s Grand Opera House has avoided jail after pleading guilty to stealing more than £20,000 from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:36AMSpeaking to The Stage in 1979, Sheila Steafel described herself as “a straight character comedy actress who always wanted to be a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMFreda Dowie will be best remembered as the abused, long-suffering mother in Terence Davies’ autobiographical film Distant Voices, Still Lives, a role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMDancer Julia Farron, who has died at the age of 96, may not have achieved the celebrity status of her peers Margot
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMFew figures made so charismatic or immediate an impact on recent Irish theatre as the actor and director Karl Shiels, who has
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:54AMActor Jeremy Kemp’s screen career was dominated by roles in uniform, most indelibly including his television breakthrough as PC Bob Steele in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:32AMJoe Longthorne, who has died at the age of 64, was one of the biggest light-entertainment stars of his generation, admired within
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