England’s oldest rep, Frinton Summer Theatre, has entertained local residents and holidaymakers for 80 years, proving a useful training ground for well-known
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAs the epic Angels in America continues its run at the National, its director – who has helmed some of theatre’s biggest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMNearly 30 years ago, The Stage’s former editor took a chance on an inexperienced, 24-year-old photographer. Nick Smurthwaite finds out about his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMHaving started out at the National’s education department, Joseph Smith went on to pursue a career as a producer in New York.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMAfter beginning her career at English Heritage, the entertainment executive went on to manage events venues Alexandra Palace and the O2 during
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe Olivier-winning set and costume designer is no stranger to West End transfers, with recent hits including The 39 Steps and My
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe fortnightly compendium of newspaper theatre reviews was launched in 1981 and has recently joined the digital age. Nick Smurthwaite discovers how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt is only 18 months since she won the prestigious Linbury Prize, but Grace Smart is already showing signs of becoming one
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAs Brick Lane Music Hall founder Vincent Hayes celebrates its 25th anniversary, Nick Smurthwaite looks back at how it has championed revue-style
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIt is 30 years since the Dukes, Lancaster, produced its first annual promenade show, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, in nearby Williamson Park,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLola Williams Organisation: New Wonder Management Training: BA (hons) in theatre arts; MBA CV: Worked as radio presenter and journalist in Nigeria;
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMGeorge Jarvis Organisation: Royal Shakespeare Company Training: BA in sonic arts, Middlesex University CV: Production video engineer for the RSC: The Tempest, Wendy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMKeith Jones Organisation: Octagon Theatre Bolton Training: Courtaulds plc CV: Various roles at Courtaulds across the North West, including cost and financial
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe popular image we have of music hall, mostly gleaned from TV’s The Good Old Days, is of overdressed songbirds clutching parasols
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMIn the age of the Big Beast musicals – Cats, Les Mis, Phantom, Miss Saigon – who could ever forget those iconic
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMOne of the busiest sound engineers around, Matilda stalwart Leigh Davies is moving into design. He tells Nick Smurthwaite how this led to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:06AMNot only is Hildegard Bechtler one of our busiest and most sought-after stage designers, but she also has an uncanny knack of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThough she is best known for the frequently revived modern classic Our Country’s Good, Timberlake Wertenbaker has written some 30 plays, the latest
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBack in the mid-1990s, it looked as if Catherine McCormack was on her way to becoming a Hollywood femme fatale. Having burst
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMLike moths to the flame, people are surging towards a big neon sign saying Zippos Circus in the wide open space of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFor one of the capital’s most progressive theatre hubs to set up shop in an abandoned Victorian library always threatened to be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMBehind all the back-slapping, celeb-spotting and faux humility, showbiz award ceremonies are meant to be about celebrating the hard graft and dedication
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMVisions of Peggy Mount or Yootha Joyce tend to pop into your head at the mention of the term “theatrical digs”. Of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMBefore meeting the producer Karl Sydow for lunch at the Hospital Club in Covent Garden, I am briefed by his PR Arabella:
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMAll roads lead to the Broadway Cinema in Letchworth, Hertfordshire. The magnificent art deco building opened to the public with Follow the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMThe baby boomer generation is one of regional theatre’s biggest demographics so it made perfect sense for writer Michael Aitkens to adapt
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMJust when you thought every permutation of staging Shakespeare had been tried, along comes another freshly minted Hamlet to confound our expectations.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMichelle Collins was turned down by half a dozen drama schools when she started out. “I’ve always felt untrained,” she admits as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMFind out what you’re good at and then become the best you can. This simple piece of careers advice could certainly be
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMAny theatre buff or practitioner who was around in the 1950s and 1960s was in thrall to the critic Kenneth Tynan, whose
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMSoon after she took over the running of the Liverpool Everyman in the 1980s, Glen Walford invited local hairdresser-turned-playwright Willy Russell to
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