Monday, July 16, 2018
This 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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Later this month Joking Apart, Ayckbourn's 21st play, returns to the Stephen Joseph Theatre " 30 years after its premiere there. In
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After starting out as a boy soprano singing at eisteddfods in north Wales, Gareth Valentine went on to become a top musical
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Legendary writers' agent Peggy Ramsay was known for offering forthright guidance to those she represented. A collection of her correspondence is a
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Firm friends for decades, Eileen Atkins, Judi Dench, Maggie Smith and Joan Plowright relive career triumphs and disasters in Roger Michell's documentary, a
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When the wealthy Rowena Cade wanted an outdoor theatre for her amateur production of The Tempest, Cornish gardener Billy Rawlings made it
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With a string of stellar performances already illuminating her CV, the actor tackles her most challenging role yet as Dusty Springfield. Nick
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Birmingham Rep's company manager is a vital link between the production department, creatives and performers, while also managing the venue's community shows.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]The revolutionary director behind Theatre Workshop at Theatre Royal Stratford East, Joan Littlewood, will be played by seven different actors on the
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For David Harrower, adapting Muriel Spark's 1961 novel has been a project that has taken more than a decade of his time. Nick
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The producer who brought a season of Russian plays to Theatre Royal Haymarket is back with Tartuffe. He tells Nick Smurthwaite about
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Unperformed professionally since its first West End run, The Biograph Girl depicts stars of the silent movie era. Book writer Warner Brown
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Alongside her stage and screen career, Amanda Root set up a charity to help those in need through creative arts. Now appearing
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The iconic institution has helped launch the careers of some of the UK's most distinguished actors, with numerous successful shows to its
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Discharged from the army at 22, Jonathan Guy Lewis embarked on a stage career. The actor and writer tells Nick Smurthwaite how
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:41PM[SHARE]Ten years after its first staging, the award-winning Sunshine on Leith is revived for a tour that takes in Scotland to Coventry,
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After training as a designer, Terry Herfield found her calling as a costume supervisor. She tells Nick Smurthwaite how she manages to
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With a long history of rewrites and revisions, Chess is being revived at the London Coliseum this month. Nick Smurthwaite looks at
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One of the West End's most in-demand musical directors, Nicholas Skilbeck's recent work includes Follies and the new show based on the life
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PM[SHARE]Stagecoach, which this year celebrates its 30th birthday, has provided a platform for actors, singers and dancers. Nick Smurthwaite looks at its
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A familiar face on film and TV, Roger Allam is returning to the West End in The Moderate Soprano. He tells Nick
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The lyricist of some of the best-loved musicals of all time would have celebrated his 100th birthday this year. Music academic Dominic
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Inspired by Aphra Behn, Mary Pix was among the most popular playwrights on the 17th-century theatre circuit, but fell out of fashion.
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Interest in stage apprenticeships has never been greater, with more than 30 applicants for every vacancy. As National Apprentice Week ends, Nick
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As Agnes Colander receives its premiere after 116 years, Nick Smurthwaite investigates why Harley Granville Barker's potentially incendiary work never made it
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'One of the first celebrities of Georgian England', Edmund Kean transformed classical performing. Now, actor and Shakespearean scholar Ian Hughes is resurrecting
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At 70, the playwright Bryony Lavery continues to add to her repertoire of more than 50 plays. With Frozen, her biggest and
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Henry James Byron is not the first Victorian playwright to come to mind, but he was a big hit in the mid-19th
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Best known for 'geezer' roles on screen, Phil Daniels is a veteran stage actor, recently seen in the West End and Chichester.
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As the private correspondence of Tyrone Guthrie is published for the first time, Nick Smurthwaite finds much humour in the 20th-century director's
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Recognised as an unsung hero in The Stage Awards, Clare Ferraby has decorated and restored the interiors of some of the UK's
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