2,435 stories by "The Stage"
Your West End ticketing special (April 12) made very interesting reading and throws light on the problems that affects London theatregoers. I have often been lucky with day tickets but, if y…
Rycote, the Gloucestershire-based manufacturer of microphone windshields and shockmount systems, has scheduled another of its open days.
The Association of British Theatre Technicians and the Stage Management Association held this spring's open Production Managers Forum meeting at the PLASA Focus trade show, Leeds, on April 1…
Blackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, HSL, recently supplied lighting equipment and LED screens to the first production tour of one of the UK's newest boy bands, One Direction…
After ten years as one half of a singing duo with her sister, Stella Tanner began a successful 40-year career as a television actress.
Based first in Leeds and then in Manchester, BBC radio drama producer Tony Cliff contributed an impressive stream of plays for Saturday Night Theatre on Radio 4 and other outlets. The way in…
As one of the emerging young dramatists of the late 1950s and early 1960s, John Arden was unable to share the durability of his confreres, Harold Pinter and John Osborne, partly because much…
Charles J O'Neill began his theatrical career as a carpenter and toured the country with several musicals. He was resident at The King's Theatre Glasgow as stage manager from 1961-63 for How…
As a new production of The Sunshine Boys gets set to open in London, Nick Smurthwaite examines how author Neil Simon's links with legendary vaudeville performers inspired the play
As The Passion production, which took place in Port Talbot last Easter, is launched as a feature film, Sharon D Calcutt reports on the stage management of the show and recalls how the event …
Jack Davenport hasn't been based on UK shores in a while. That is because, for the last few years, the actor has been living in the US, after he went there ten years ago to film what he refe…
From the pleasures of Newsnight to the revelries of children's entertainment - Tabard's tastes are catholic and we are willing to judge each production on its own merits. Just as well, becau…
It's not so much the price of theatre tickets that puts potential audiences off, argues Alistair Smith, it's the lack of transparency over booking fees
Impact, the trade distribution company for sound, lighting and staging, now has six new UK branches up-and-running - in Park Royal (north London), Belvedere (south London), Glasgow, Edinburg…
Lab.gruppen and Lake have announced details of a new training and certification programme being launched next month.
Loathe as I am to contradict the minister for culture, I should point out that not all the organisations that lost their arts council revenue funding from April 1 did so on the basis of "art…
Entertainment lighting specialist, White Light, recently supplied equipment and support services to Mr Dickens and the Actors - a production marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Cha…
Danish lighting designer, Kasper Christiansen of VisuaLies, recently used a combination of Clay Paky Shotlight Washes and Alpha Profile 1500s on pioneering punk band, Sort Sol's, recent Dani…
I'm an author and playwright and wanted to submit a script to the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, because the play is about a (fictional) Irish genius. To my surprise theatre staff informed me that t…
A number of points need to be made about Clive Hurst's extraordinary letter seemingly castigating George Clooney's support for human rights in Sudan when he (Clooney) and others supposedly n…
David Smiles died in Wanganui, New Zealand, on January 30, aged 77.
Your correspondent, Patricia David, provides only part of the picture regarding the Futurist (letters, March 22).
"Don't tell him, Pike!" (letters, April 5) was a fitting memory of Arthur Lowe's guarded advice to his junior in Dad's Army that went adrift when uttered in the presence of (much missed acto…
Maggie Brown talks to actors and other staff at the BBC's new studio complex in Roath Lock, Cardiff, to find out what they think about relocating there, how they rate the new facilities and …
As Forest Fringe prepares to take up a two-week residency at the Gate Theatre, Matt Trueman talks to the organisation's co-artistic director, Andy Field, about spreading its wings beyond Edi…
