2,435 stories by "The Stage"
Tabard was picking up some essentials in the local supermarket the other day, and couldn't help notice the store had started to stock Christmas cards. Shock, horror! This raises two points.
As acclaimed dance company San Francisco Ballet returns to London after an eight-year hiatus, with three mixed-repertory programmes during a two-week residency at Sadler's Wells Theatre, Nei…
Promoted from within, Kevin O'Hare, the Royal Ballet's new chief, is looking to the future with plans for regular new works, he tells Nicola Merrifield
James Cousins is the first winner of the New Adventurers Choreographer Award, a prize set up in honour of Matthew Bourne to help top young dance professionals, writes Katie Colombus
The National Apprenticeship Service has announced that it is extending its £1,500 incentive scheme to encourage employers to take on apprentices, which should be of tangible benefit to…
The forthcoming London premiere of Mortal Engine - a multimedia performance by Australian contemporary dance group, Chunky Move - produced by German engineer, Frieder Weiss, and Australian c…
France's Theatre National Populaire in Villeurbanne, north east of Lyon, has recently reopened following extensive refurbishment and now features new Electronic Theatre Controls Ltd lighting…
Nick Gray, from London-based creative design practice, Renegade, has been the creative force behind the look of Kasabian's festival headline appearances this summer, appearances including T …
One of the most fondly remembered dancers with Pan's People, the troupe that enlivened BBC television's Top of the Pops, was Louise Clarke. The daughter of a music arranger, she began dancin…
The popular Irish soap opera Glenroe focused on a group of people living near a village pub, run by Teasy McDaid, who was played by Maureen Toal. The series topped the television ratings in …
Hailed by his friend and comic Jimmy Tarbuck as "the king of the Palladium", Max Bygraves rose from rags to riches in a career that spanned five decades, at one time being Britain's highest …
So sad to hear of Max Bygraves' death. I remember him well, and so kind he was. For many years I have wanted to write to him - I knew he had retired to Australia and had lately been poorly. …
Further to your lead article (A conflict of interest that brings integrity of criticism into doubt, September 6, page 10), I questioned Mastercard about a recent DiGi bill to Time Out - the …
Janet Suzman, among others, has rightly voiced concerns about the lack of opportunities for women in theatre, whether classics or indeed new plays. But surely one of the legacies of the amaz…
Your article about the talent agency that has defaulted in paying its artists for work on EastEnders (News, August 16, page 2) leaves me with great disappointment.
Anne Cooper, chair of the Farnham Theatre Association, asks for anyone who contributed towards the cost of building the Redgrave Theatre to contact her (Stage Talk, September 6, page 8).
Sometimes, Tabard is baffled by the downright silly things some people do in the name of theatre. Producing a musical called Behind the Iron Mask springs to mind. But this week, Tabard heard…
Is Sheila Ferguson cursed? This is the question Tabard was forced to ask this week upon learning that a tour of the musical Daddy Cool, in which the actor and singer was set to star, has bee…
As Janet Suzman prepares for the Chichester revival of her well-received Liverpool Playhouse production of Antony and Cleopatra, she tells Jonathan Lovett about directing Kim Cattrall in wha…
ITV's Appropriate Adult, a drama about the murderer Fred West, was the big winner at the British Academy Television Awards, with its stars Emily Watson and Dominic West named best leading ac…
As Downton Abbey returns with a third series, Ben Dowell talks to members of the cast and production team about the broad-ranging appeal of the ITV1 show and how new recruit Shirley MacLaine…
Avolites Ltd has appointed Koy Neminathan to the position of sales director and JB Toby as technical director.
PLASA Events claims that momentum and interest for PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012 is growing, with a number of new exhibitors having committed to the free, two-day event which takes place on Nov…
Following three years at XL Video in the USA where he oversaw its Los Angeles office, Phil Mercer has returned to his native UK as group head of concert touring at the Hertfordshire-based co…
London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light's lighting division recently supplied equipment and crew for Portishead's european tour, and Paloma Faith's show in Peterborough, thereby ren…
