A new exhibition at the National Theatre, Playing With Scale, explores why, in the digital era, theatre designers still use model boxes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMFor the first time in 80 years, theatre is back at north London venue. Nick Smurthwaite takes a looks at how the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:24PMBefore ‘cowboys and Indians’ arrived on the silver screen, Colonel William F Cody staged outdoor spectaculars around the UK, starring hundreds of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMUK entertainers played a vital role in the war effort, as a new book by Roger Foss explains. Nick Smurthwaite discovers how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:24AMIn January most people are trying to forget Christmas – with the extra weight, debt and broken toys – but it’s at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:43AMThe Palladium staged its first pantomime in 1914 and developed a tradition that brought the biggest stars to its stage. Nick Smurthwaite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AMHaving delighted audiences at York Theatre Royal for four decades, the veteran dame tells Nick Smurthwaite about getting into the business, overcoming
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMCharlie Ryall was introduced to 18th-century theatremaker Charlotte Charke at the age of 10 by her father, actor David Ryall. She tells
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMThe fight director’s body of work includes Les Miserables and TV hits such as Blackadder. He talks to Nick Smurthwaite about the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMDavid Garrick helped define modern theatre. Nick Smurthwaite reviews Norman S Poser’s new study of the theatrical star, who brought naturalism to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMIt is 80 years since Oxford Playhouse started with a weekly rep, and has staged professional and student shows since. Nick Smurthwaite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMAs nearly 90, pop culture’s Renaissance man has published his autobiography looking back on a career encompassing everything from Shakespeare, pop hits,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMThough he became nationally known in the 1980s as the witty, clipboard-clutching host of It’ll Be Alright on the Night, Denis Norden’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMAs backstage technology becomes ever more sophisticated, staff from leading schools tell Nick Smurthwaite how they are equipping students with the skills
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:58AMThe British Library owns more than 240,000 posters and playbills, in some cases more than 300 years old, but to be protected,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:19AMHalf a century on from the end of official British theatre censorship, Nick Smurthwaite looks at writers and critics who campaigned for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMMore than 35 years since The Young Ones, Adrian Edmondson and Nigel Planer are working on a stage project. They tell Nick
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMThe Goon Show burst on to the airwaves in 1951 and changed comedy forever. As a stage version of the classic radio
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTo mark the 10th anniversary of the playwright’s death, Pinter devotee Jamie Lloyd has assembled a stellar cast to bring all 20
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:05AMThe Sydney-born actor and writer made his name in London by following his performance in Yerma with an equally acclaimed turn as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMAutomation specialist Simon Crowley is responsible for ensuring the scene changes at the Royal Shakespeare Company are seamless. He tells Nick Smurthwaite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:53PMHistorians have argued whether poet Emilia Bassano was the muse of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. Nick Smurthwaite finds out more about the inspiration for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMGary McCann is one of UK’s most in-demand designers, working on shows from touring musicals to international operas. He tells Nick Smurthwaite
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMRecently reopened after painstaking restoration, Riddle’s Court has had many guises in its 400-year history, from grand residence to 19th-century slum, before
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:40AMWilliam ‘Bill’ Hobbs, who has died aged 79, practically invented the modern-day fight director’s role. A champion fencer and co-founder of the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMOne of the hardest working and most influential British directors of the past 50 years, Braham Murray was the last surviving member
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMHaving begun her career in Nottingham’s working men’s clubs, Su Pollard made her name in a series of 1980s sitcoms. Now she
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMBraham Murray, the longest serving artistic director of the Royal Exchange Manchester, has died suddenly aged 75. Murray devoted most of his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMIn the 1920s and 1930s, provocative chanteuse Margo Lion wowed the Berlin cabaret scene before she fled to Paris. Nick Smurthwaite meets
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:12AMLike many other playwrights and screenwriters, Hugh Whitemore, originally wanted to be an actor. He trained at RADA, where one of his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:06PMThis month, Shakespeare Schools Foundation was gifted a Praemium Imperiale grant to boost its work with marginalised groups. Nick Smurthwaite looks at
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