2,435 stories by "The Stage"
Your Chit Chat column (page 9, May 10) got a lot of mocking mileage out of dancer Kimberly Wyatt having told your reporter that she'd enjoyed seeing a dance production 'by Jason Bourne', but…
As three British born Nigerian female playwrights have their work playing in London this month, Aleks Sierz discusses the parallels and differences in their work and the kind of stories they…
After taking Top Hat around the country on a regional tour, Summer Strallen and Tom Chambers are starring in the West End transfer. They talk to Matthew Hemley about the show's appeal and ho…
Students at Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancashire, have been exploring the power of visual design in performance with an innovative selection of work recently unveiled on campus, and …
Sound Technology Ltd, the UK and Eire distributor for Harman Professional brands - including JBL, Soundcraft, Crown, AKG, BSS and dbx - has opened its new Pro Audio demonstration facility at…
Lancashire-based lighting and visual rentals specialist HSL has been supplying lighting, a Kinesys automation system, and crew to pop/opera "crossover" group, Il Divo, which has just complet…
Oregon's Portland Center for the Performing Arts in the USA is claiming a significant saving in power usage following an upgrade of the lighting system in its Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall.
Marion North was one of the leading figures in the development of contemporary dance in the UK.
The high point in the career of the television and film director, Jim O'Brien, was the 14-part Granada series The Jewel in the Crown (1984), set in the final days of the British Raj in India…
An error of judgement was made by a junior freelancer new to Hat Trick in placing an advert seeking actors or extras to participate in filming with the payment of expenses only [Hat Trick be…
Former Pussycat Doll Kimberly Wyatt talks to Matthew Hemley about moving on from shimmying in stilettos and why she's putting her all into West End dance show Revolution
The work of the Russian theatre director and teacher Konstantin Stanislavski was well-served by actor and author Jean-Norman Benedetti, who wrote three books on the man whose approach to the…
As the daughter of a Spanish father and an English mother, Patricia Medina was blessed with a sultry and voluptuous beauty that helped her to land roles in more than 50 movies. Her publicist…
Matt Trueman talks to Ella Hickson about her latest work to be produced, Boys, which is currently running at the HighTide Festival, and how she has since moved on from writing about universi…
John Forrest, best known as an actor in British films during the 1950s, died suddenly at his London home in April, just short of his 81st birthday.
In the late 1940s, a boy soprano, Billy Neely, became a star of BBC Radio with such works as Ave Maria and the song that became his signature tune, Cherry Ripe.
Genevieve Raghu, the new artistic director of Norwich's Maddermarket Theatre tells Eleanor Turney about her hopes and dreams for the venue
Friends of the entertainer Janet Brown from television, theatre and entertainment will be among the guests for her memorial service at the actors' church, St Paul's in Covent Garden, London …
Following last year's successful events, sound specialist suppliers Sennheiser UK has announced the dates of its 2012 integrated systems seminars.
PLASA has announced that its third annual Rigging Conference will take place on September 10-11 at the Earls Court Conference Centre, London, running alongside the PLASA 2012 trade show.
The new production of Wagner's The Flying Dutchman, by the English National Opera in London, features innovative projection designs created by Nina Dunn of Knifedge, the London W1-based, dig…
The Ruddock Performing Arts Centre at King Edward's School, Edgbaston, Birmingham, opened recently with a performance of Carl Orff's Carmina Burana and Rimsky-Korsakov's Scheherazade, unveil…
I don't deny I'm having to be dragged hollering and screaming into the computer age. But with reference to your article Court ruling bites YouTube (p13, April 26), surely for a major interne…
I was pleased to read that the Propeller Theatre Company has ended its financial year with a surplus (Biz 2 Biz, page 13, May 3). It deserves one.
Your news piece Trio Run for Equity President (May 3), in its online incarnation mentions that I declined to comment on my decision to stand for the Equity President. While this is correct w…
