2,435 stories by "The Stage"
You are to be congratulated on your article Radio's Renaissance (July 12, page 30), in which Jeremy Howe and Gwyneth Williams voiced their hopes that this will happen.
Alistair Smith provided a fair coverage of recent Equity election results (News, July 19, page 4), but comparing voting figures with those of the previous election in 2010 provides some inte…
In the 1960s, three-quarters of a million children belonged to the Tingha and Tucker fan club to prove their allegiance to two koala bear glove puppets who appeared in an ITV show with Jean …
Alf Pearson and his brother, Bob, were a linchpin of the old-time variety theatre, and worked together for an amazing 57 years. They sang all sorts of songs, always introduced by their short…
'Relaxed' show stagings enable families of children with special sensory and communication needs to experience theatre in an environment where it is accepted - and expected - that audience m…
Manchester-based lighting and visuals rental company DBN recently supplied stage, DVD, audience and architectural lighting for Elbow's concert at the Jodrell Bank Observatory, Cheshire, home…
XL Video supplied 400 square metres of its latest Pixled F-12 LED screen - configured as 12 screens, ten of which moved - plus cameras, PPU and crew for the Stone Roses three recent homecomi…
Eleven college principals from across the UK met recently to discuss extending the National Skills Academy for Creative and Cultural to benefit creative businesses, practitioners and young p…
Flightcase manufacturer 5 Star Cases has expanded its HQ and manufacturing facility in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire, adding 4,700 square feet of production units.
For many years now I have been marketing myself and in 2009 set up my own company, DGS Music. I have been very passionate and driven to succeed in getting my name out there, and have been fo…
The first magician to introduce parakeets and later budgerigars into his act, Jack Kodell played the London Palladium, the London Hippodrome and the Savoy Hotel. In the act entitled A Fantas…
An actor of exceptionally wide range, James Grout reached his apotheosis in Inspector Morse (1987-2000), the ITV series centred on investigations carried out by a senior crime investigations…
For more than 40 years John Percival wrote numerous ballet critiques for many publications, including latterly The Stage, and his output was prolific. He was The Times ballet critic from 196…
Tabard has been provided with much amusement this week, often over - outwardly - the most mirth-free of matters. We wonder whether the constant deluge of rain has somehow made us delirious, …
Tabard is often bemused by Freudian slips. One never knows just where a slip of the tongue might lead you. One momentary lapse and, before you know it, journalists are recycling your faux pa…
With the death of Eric Sykes, we have lost another veteran performer, who, like Spike Milligan, had seen action during the Second World War and had been so prominent on TV and radio and in f…
Regarding Ian Seale's letter (Stage Talk, July 11, page 6), Equity factions have had a lot of criticism lately from him. The forming of a group is initiated by the meeting of minds and has b…
As part of some research for a forthcoming book I am trying to track down the actress Gay Singleton, who had many television, film and stage credits in the 60s and 70s.
While it is encouraging to read of the success of the launch of the Michael Grandage season and the new Spice Girls musical, it is equally good when you come across local productions that hi…
Elfriede Jelinek, the Nobel prize-winning Austrian playwright, novelist and poet, is renowned for politically charged, challenging works as much as for an unconventional dramatic writing sty…
It commissions 150 plays a year, many of which have audiences of up to one million, but Radio 4 is still best known for its current affairs output. Ben Dowell meets two executives determined…
Prolyte Products UK Limited, a subsidiary of Prolyte Group, has acquired Hertfordshire-based, stage set fabrication company, Brilliant Stages, a multiple award winner in the design and const…
AC Entertainment Technologies Ltd has supplied a quantity of LED-based lighting fixtures from entertainment lighting manufacturers, Chroma-Q, PixelRange and GLP to the BBC's Radio Theatre fa…
Robe Robin MMX Spots and LEDWash 600s were the main moving lights used by lighting designer, Phil Shaw, for a recent, one-off show at north London's, Alexandra Palace by indie rockers, The M…
London-based projection artist, Ross Ashton, of the Projection Studio, has had his recent Face Britain video projection work on the front of Buckingham Palace officially confirmed as a Guinn…
