2,435 stories by "The Stage"
As the bassist with Elton John's band for the past 20 years, Bob Birch played to vast audiences all over the world, including 200,000 music fans at the Live 8 concert in London's Hyde Park i…
Four men created the hit musical Hairspray - one of them was Mark O'Donnell, who wrote the book with Thomas Meehan. While the show was still enjoying a six-year run on Broadway, the West End…
John Pitt, who died on July 29, was one of the most successful figures in production management over the last four decades. He was known to many for his work on Birmingham Repertory Theatre'…
A lovely lady has, for many years, devoted her time free of charge while inspiring children of all age groups in theatrical arts.
Mark Ritchie's survey of summer season entertainment around the coast - under that hoary old title Pier Pressure (August 16, page 18) - contains some notable omissions.
I can vouch for Keith Salberg's memory being as sharp as ever (Salberg's total recall, August 16, page 36). Aside from using Keith's agency services in a past life, I continue to use his kno…
The Leicester Haymarket Theatre opened in 1973 and enjoyed many years of success until it closed its doors for the last time in 2006. A huge number of staff, actors and people who were invol…
I read Richard Anthony Baker's obituary of Simon Ward (August 9, page 35) with great interest. In 1984, along with other amateur performers in York, I was fortunate to appear alongside Ward …
Congratulations are due to the marketeers and tour bookers of Angelina Ballerina - The Mousical for ensuring that none of the receiving venues for this delightful show for younger theatregoe…
Tabard knows that unions often struggle to get members, but this week Equity took its quest to boost subscriptions to a new level. It wrote to the Queen and asked her to sign up.
This week, Alice Cooper joined the cast of Rock of Ages at London's Shaftesbury Theatre to perform his song School's Out, marking the 40th anniversary of the single making it to the top of t…
Contracting a severe form of ME at the age of 44, Paddy Masefield, until then a busy director and playwright, began a new career as a campaigner for the rights of disabled people in theatres…
At an extraordinary Academy Awards ceremony in 1974, no fewer than three Oscars went to the same man - the composer Marvin Hamlisch. He received two awards - best score and best song - for…
Traditional seaside venues are this summer still pulling in the punters, confounding the prophets of doom, writes Mark Ritchie
Joanna Page might be best known as one half of the loveable Gavin and Stacey, but Matthew Hemley finds that the actor, currently starring in Sky1's new comedy series Gates, has a fierce pass…
Bow Arts Trust, the east London arts educational charity, has become the recipient of the first major installation of Artistic Licence Engineering's new modular Multichrome Tube LED fixtures.
AC Special Projects has launched a new social media initiative to enable the company to network with its customer base, including providing immediate updates on installations news, trade sho…
Organisers of the third annual PLASA Rigging Conference, taking place at the Earls Court Conference Centre, September 10-11, are promising a top programme of seminars - the event set to clos…
Previewing from August 31 at the Bristol Hippodrome, The Lion King UK tour will be one of the heaviest touring productions in the UK, according to Unusual Rigging, which undertook an extensi…
A shortlist of lighting designers nominated for this year's Knight of Illumination Awards has been released, including nominees for specialist theatre award categories - drama, musicals, ope…
The new production of Spamalot has been pared down but not at the expense of laughs or its Pythonesque essence, composer John Du Prez and star Bonnie Langford tell Lisa Martland
The caustic words of a critic helped put paid to Peter Michael Marino's West End flop Desperately Seeking Susan but his one-man show based on his experiences is attracting plenty of attentio…
ITV will soon be screening the drama Mrs Biggs, the true story of Charmian Biggs, ex-wife of the great train robber Ronnie. Tabard hears the broadcaster held a press screening of the drama t…
Talking of robbery, Tabard hears reporters at The Stage felt a little robbed this week. The newsdesk team had been looking forward to a launch party at the New Wimbledon Theatre to herald tw…
Tabard is well aware of the lengths performers will go to just to get some publicity for their Edinburgh Festival Fringe show - why, just last week we heard how Peter Michael Marino had writ…
