2,435 stories by "The Stage"
The Dear John article (June 21, page 12) contained the statement, "it is true to say the fact that the art of storytelling is not exclusively a kid's medium can be forgotten".
I read Barbara Hyslop's letter (Stage Talk, June 21, page 8) with a certain degree of puzzlement. She says that the Members' Group has "never had a meeting".
Nothing is more insidious than opinion presented as fact. I refer to the shockingly inaccurate and downright mischievous letters from Ian Seale (Stage Talk, June 14, page 8) and Barbara Hysl…
Best known as one of the Smack the Pony trio and as Bridget Jones' foul-mouthed friend, Sally Phillips has made a name for herself as a comedy actor. She talks to Matthew Hemley about her ro…
Can Elliot Davis and pop's James Bourne turn Loserville into an original winner of a British musical? Mark Shenton finds out where the show came from and how it is being brought to the stage…
Sennheiser UK has become the official distributor for Avalon Design products in the UK and Ireland.
PLASA states that visitors to Nashville from July 12-14 can enjoy having access to two simultaneous business events - Summer NAMM (www.namm.org/summer/2012) and PLASA Focus: Nashville (www.p…
S+H Technical Support - the Devon-based drapes, starcloth, LED and visual effects specialists - has again supplied its innovative LED Video Floor to the latest series of the television game …
XL Video is continuing to supply Coldplay's current Mylo Xyloto world tour with LED screens, cameras/HD PPU, media servers and control plus crew, taking in stadium show dates in the UK and a…
I was interested to read about the long-lost Curtain Theatre and the mystery of its location (News, June 14, page 5). My ancestor, the Jacobean playwright John Webster, was known to work for…
An active supporter of the [Equity members'] Representative Group, I take offence at what your carping correspondent Ian Seale had to say (Stage Talk, 14 June, page 8).
Having recently watched the BBC documentary on the Theatre Royal, Bury St Edmonds (Arts Troubleshooter, BBC2, June 2), don't the town's good citizens realise that to have both new seating an…
The current season at Hampstead Theatre's main stage shows little regard for female performers' right to work or for actual women being represented. The theatre is currently showing Chariots…
In this morning's mail, I found a number of enquiries from well-intentioned young graduates enclosing their CVs. They were almost literally begging for some kind - any kind - of work experie…
While in London recently, my wife and I saw the new musical at Upstairs at the Gatehouse - Goodnight Mrs Calabash, based on the life of Jimmy Durante and written by Tony Day.
Regarding Mark Shenton's excellent list of West End leading women (The Stage Online, June 7, page 7), I would like to suggest three of my favourite performers.
Ian Seale (Stage Talk, June 14, page 9) highlights an important issue, but is unfortunately misleading. In contrast to the politically polarised Representative Conference Group, our Members'…
As an actor and drama coach, I am predictably interested in youngsters studying drama. They are our future, after all. I am therefore rather concerned with what I see in competitive drama fe…
A visually impaired theatregoer, I found the suggestion that audio description could be provided by an understudy both naive and patronising (News Feature, May 31, page 5).
Mark Shenton mentions many stars I love (Stage Talk, June 7, page 7), but he doesn't mention the one I love most of all - Janie Dee. In my humble opinion she can sing, dance and act better t…
Being christened Vivian is the kind of setback any young Australian boy would have struggled to cope with, especially with the release of Gone With the Wind, which irrevocably linked it with…
One of my earliest memories is of being taken to the Blackpool Tower Circus, where two teams of dogs, attired in respective sporting colours, played out Manchester United versus Blackpool wi…
Born the eldest of six children over a fish and chip shop in Ebbw Vale to Italian-Welsh parents, Victor Spinetti went on to work with Hollywood stars of the stature of Richard and Elizab…
With Britain in a recession and unemployment remaining high, Parvin Kumar Ramchurn speaks to a cross-section of actors about their survival strategies in an always-uncertain job market
Roland Systems Group has launched a dedicated iPad application to control its award-winning M-480 digital console - the app having been designed to control the parameters of the M-480, as we…
