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Stage 100 award winner Jermyn Street Theatre is making a big noise in the West End, despite its small size. Artistic director Gene David Kirk tells Aleks Sierz how this has come about
XL Video supplied 200 square metres of LED screen, cameras/PPU, a Catalyst playback system and crew to Fatboy Slim's recent Fifth Beach Bootique show, which was the first entertainment event…
Liverpool-based Adlib's audio division has designed and installed an Adlib FD sound system into one of the city's iconic live music venues, Eric's, which re-opened for business last year.
There's something inspirational about the resilience of older performers; actors whose stage presence seems to increase with age, writes Michael Coveney
Even when variety theatre was in its death throes in the 1950s, the very best acts still found plenty of work. One such was a song-and-dance troupe, the Trio Vitalites, comprised of Jack Hor…
One of the stalwarts of intimate revue in the 1940s and 50s, Charlotte Mitchell may be best remembered by television viewers for her portrayal of the housekeeper in the popular Sunday teatim…
A showbusiness jack-of-all-trades, Digby Wolfe turned his hand to acting, songwriting, compering, singing and, especially, writing. In his tireless search for success, he moved first to Aust…
It is easy to forget that theatre designer Tom Scutt is only 28, such is the calibre of his work since graduating just five years ago - with The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, Constellati…
Now almost entirely performed in open spaces, the Greenwich and Docklands International Festival has an ambitious, large-scale line-up this year, including the premiere of a work from the pu…
A supportive environment is key to PPA's increasing success, finds Nick Smurthwaite
First off, I must declare an interest - I have worked with ventriloquist and comedienne Nina Conti over seven series of my BBC Radio 4 sitcom Clare in the Community, and my admiration of her…
More than 1,400 moving lights were recently employed at the 57th Eurovision Song Contest, held at the Baku Crystal Hall in Azerbaijan - a brand new multi-purpose indoor arena with a capacity…
Only last week, The Stage reminded us that culture, as well as sport, is high on the agenda this summer - but it is rare to see the two areas combine.
The Hire Company, which recently moved to its new 4,200 sqft home in two units on Christchurch Business Park, Dorset, is holding an open day on July 5 to highlight its expertise, equipment a…
Martin Professional recently held a special Innovation and Inspiration event for industry professionals at two of London's premiere locations - the landmark BT Tower, and the award-winning h…
London-based automation specialist, Kinesys, has announced two July dates for its ongoing product training programme, consisting of two day courses and workshops.
It is very rare that Tabard comes across people who are allergic to theatre. For, surely, anyone who doesn't enjoy a high kick in a spangly leotard, or a soliloquy, or a Stephen Sondheim dit…
Word has reached Tabard that the West End production of Les Miserables had to cancel a show last week due to flooding at the Queen's Theatre. One Tweeter revealed the audience had been all c…
I read with interest Caroline Fields' letter last week regarding Peter Sandeman leaving the City Varieties in Leeds (June 7, page 6). I fondly remember visiting the theatre as a small child.…
With the Equity 2012 Council and presidential election upon us, members might find it informative to be able to identify which candidates are independent, who is part of a faction and who is…
I am disappointed at your news story on child licensing changes (front page, May 31). I always believed that good editorial looks at both sides of the argument and thus it is surprising that…
I would like to correct a false impression I may have given in my letter to The Stage (page 8, June 1).
Your article about the lack of access in some mainstream theatre (page 5, May 31) seems to have pressured the producers of A Long Day's Journey into Night to consider accessible performances…
On a walking holiday in a Derbyshire spa town in 1976, Malcolm Fraser had the unlikeliest of ideas. Within three years, he had rescued Buxton's Frank Matcham-designed Opera House from its ig…
Few British baritones were as versatile as Derek Hammond-Stroud, whose range easily encompassed the musical extremes of Gilbert and Sullivan and Wagner.
