Changes to the Consumer Rights Bill that would see a reform of the secondary ticketing industry remain in limbo following a debate in the House of Commons yesterday. MPs discussed changes…
British acting talent has been recognised by three major awards at this year's Golden Globes ceremony, with Eddie Redmayne scooping best actor and Joanne Froggatt taking a best supporting ac…
Lance Percival, who found fame singing topical political songs in a calypso style on That Was the Week That Was and went on to become a stalwart of British television and film comedies, has …
As one half of an era-defining writing partnership with David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd dominated British television comedy in the 1970s and 1980s with two long-running hits reviled by critics but…
Although television and film gave David Ryall's gently crumpled face, careworn demeanour and frayed-at-the-edges charm a much-loved familiarity in recent years, he was an experienced stage a…
Actor Kan Bonfils, best known on stage as the king in the 2000 revival of The King and I at the London Palladium, has died after collapsing during rehearsals for a show scheduled to openR…
Together with his best friend and professional partner Roger Darrock, Stephen Howe was a mainstay of pantomimes for much of the last 40 years and more, the duo establishing themselves as par…
One of the most formidably intelligent actresses of her generation, Billie Whitelaw forged one of 20th-century theatre's most significant partnerships with the playwright Samuel Beckett. Alt…
Chris Hornby, resident director of The Lion King since 2012, died suddenly on December 19 at the age of 43. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed. A graduate of Arts Educational Scho…
The chair of supermarket chain Asda's charitable foundation is being investigated by the police for allegedly diverting £180,000 to a ballet company founded by his partner. Former governm…
Joanna Dunham's flame burned brightly and long after she belatedly switched careers from art to acting. Having shown interest in both at the progressive, co-educational Bedales School, she i…
Arts and cultural organisations in England are "increasingly comfortable" with using digital technologies to develop business models and promote audience engagement, with "many seeing tangib…
The financial impact of cultural events on local economies "tend not to be large and are more often zero," according to new data produced by the What Works Network, a government-backed initi…
Johan Engels was one of the most imaginative and admired stage designers of his generation, working extensively in theatre and opera throughout the UK, Europe, the United States, the Far Eas…
Best known as the no-nonsense, straight-talking paramedic Nina Farr on BBC1's long-running Casualty, Rebekah Gibbs found a large audience across more than 100 episodes of the medical drama. …
With a crumpled face, dyspeptic demeanour and gruffly disapproving scowl, Warren Clarke found unlikely fame as a politically incorrect Northern detective superintendent saddled with a libera…
Garry Brown was one of the most prolific, popular and respected agents of his generation. During his three decades-plus association with Cunard Line, he was, many waggishly observed, the man…
Together with her actor-writer husband Roger Weldon, Pamela Marr was a stalwart of the weekly rep company Pyramid Players that flourished in the early part of the 1950s. Formed in Birmingham…
Warren Clarke, best known as one half of television detective duo Dalziel and Pascoe, has died at the age of 67. In a statement, his agent said he died earlier today in his sleep after…
After graduating from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Renee Asherson made her professional debut in a famed 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet at the New Theatre in which John G…
After serving as a pianist, harpist and percussionist with the Royal Artillery, Ian Fraser worked as a pianist in London's thriving 1950s nightclub scene. His abilities as an arranger of sty…
Live variety entertainment is to take centre stage in a £1 million plan to revive the fortunes of Blackpool's historic North Pier Theatre. Blackpool-based HRH Entertainments and the pier'…
Jenny McCrindle was a leading light in the generation of young actors who formed era-defining relationships with their playwright peers in Scotland's vibrant theatre scene in the late 1980s …
David Watson had three careers and was successful in all of them, making the transition from nightclub singer to Hollywood actor to a much-respected agent with characteristically easy aplomb…
Sporting a starched quiff that looked like the prow of an advancing ship, mutton-chop sideburns and clad in black leather from toe to fingertip, Alvin Stardust was one of the oddest chart su…