It was Shane Rimmer’s voice that first brought him to the UK from his native Canada as part of the close-harmony trio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMThe daughter of film star Margaret Lockwood, Julia Lockwood made her own acting debut at the age of four, appearing alongside her
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMAlthough Stanley Price’s original ambition had been to become an actor, it was as a novelist, playwright and screenwriter that he found
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:31AMFive arts organisations, including the Belfast-based theatre companies Bruiser and Terra Nova Productions, are under threat after losing their annual funding in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMJoy Bondini inherited a love of fabrics and sewing from her dressmaker grandmother and tailor mother and went on to become one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTall, strikingly masculine, with piercing blue eyes and a powerful voice inherited from his paternal grandfather, a Welsh Congregational preacher, Clinton Greyn
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMPat Laffan’s contribution to Irish theatre went far beyond the iconic brace of comic performances he will be remembered for: the libidinous
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:27AMA familiar face on British television in a screen career spanning more than six decades, Peter Hughes also enjoyed a substantial stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:41PMOne of the most respected theatre accountants of his generation, Robert Thomas received an Olivier award shortly before his death at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFor British audiences of a certain age, André Previn will be remembered as “Mr Preview”, the hapless conductor who tried, and failed,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMA founder member of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre, Sam McCready was the invigorating renaissance man of Northern Ireland’s theatre scene as it battled
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMSylvia Kay was a familiar television face during the heyday of studio-based television drama in the 1960s and 1970s and went on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMSidonie Darrell – known as Sidi – made her stage debut at the age of three and went on to become a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:29AMDavid Ponting presented his one-man show Dylan Thomas, the Man and the Myth, more than 700 times on both sides of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:08AMTime and talent thrust Albert Finney into the vanguard of a new generation of British actors on stage and screen. Drawn from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:12AMClive Swift will be best remembered as the henpecked husband to Patricia Routledge’s painfully snobbish wife Hyacinth Bucket (“pronounced Bouquet!”) in Roy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:12AMIf any producer could claim to have had the Midas touch, it was Duncan C Weldon. Responsible for more than 700 classic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:53AMTributes have been paid to the theatre producer and former administrator Duncan C Weldon who has died at the age of 77.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:06PMOn her website, Jennie Buckman described herself as “acting coach, playwright, activator”, that last epithet pointing to her increasing engagement with political
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMAs Battery Sergeant-Major Williams in David Croft and Jimmy Perry’s It Ain’t Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies’ booming voice could be heard
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMBorn in British Guiana (now Guyana), Thomas Baptiste came to London in 1950 to study agriculture but instead became a leading figure
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AMWhen she made her London stage debut in 1970, Carol Channing came trailing glory as a Tony award-winning Broadway veteran of 20
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:10AMIf Bernard Lloyd never achieved the celebrity of some of his peers, it wasn’t for the lack of exposure or ability. A
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:40AMBarbara Kirby came late to acting, leaving behind a promising career in the Metropolitan Police as an executive officer in internal investigations
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:31AMMichael Wild was the nearly man of British musical theatre in a career that saw him produce more than 40 such works.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:13PMA popular, instantly recognised face on the streets of his native Dublin, Jer O’Leary was admired as much for his political activism
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMJohnny Hart, who has died aged 75, learned magic from a library book and went on to become the Magic Circle’s first
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMMore than 300 Irish actors, writers and directors have signed a letter to Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, accusing its current leadership team of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMGuy Hutchins was a writer and storyteller whose work for young audiences explored generational and inter-cultural issues using masks, mime, puppets, dance
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:04PMComedy doyenne June Whitfield was a stage actor of considerable promise before finding fame working alongside a veritable who’s who of British
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PMRalph Koltai, who has died at the age of 94, was the most influential stage designer in British theatre in the second
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