2,435 stories by "The Stage"
Australian comedienne Caroline Reid's sharp-tongued air hostess alter ego, Pam Ann, was born at a fancy dress party back in the mid-1990s. She talks to Tony Cooke about the character's globa…
As Long Day's Journey Into Night opens in the West End, Matt Trueman talks to one of its stars, Kyle Soller, about life as an American actor in London and how he is fulfilling an ambition by…
Living as we do, Tabard is sometimes shielded from the cut and thrust of the world outside. Fiscal deficits, petrol crises and television gameshows all pass us by in the blur of "not interes…
Most people entering TV talent shows do so in an attempt to launch a singing career. Or, maybe unwittingly, put an end to any hopes of a career there and then, with the added embarrassment o…
Living as we do, Tabard is sometimes shielded from the cut and thrust of the world outside. Fiscal deficits, petrol crises and television gameshows all pass us by in the blur of "not interes…
Most people entering TV talent shows do so in an attempt to launch a singing career. Or, maybe unwittingly, put an end to any hopes of a career there and then, with the added embarrassment o…
I was intrigued to read in your Reviews section (15 March, page 16) that Blanche Marvin is directing The Seven Year Itch at Salisbury Playhouse.
Since you published our two Shakespeare United 2012 letters (March 1 and March 8), we have received loads of letters and emails from Stage readers and Equity members from all parts asking fo…
It is very important that Ed Vaizey, minister for culture at the Department for Culture Media and Sport, should take time out of his hugely busy life to write to us, via The Stage, to tell u…
When I read Natalie Woolman`s report on the Live Music Bill (page 5, March 15), I was disappointed to see that she had made no mention of the part played by Equity in the campaign.
I was interested in the two letters published from Nicholas Prosser (March 29) and Roy Radford (March 15) discussing the possible changes of the two organisations that cover the stage manage…
Your article on Arts Council England cuts paints an unduly negative picture of arts funding, and is completely one-sided (front page, March 29).
Singer-songwriter Johnny McCauley secured his place in posterity in his native Ireland as the creator of the popular country and Irish sound, and made his mark wider afield as the man who ga…
As conductor of the London Orpheus Choir for 58 years, music director of the Ealing Choral Society for four decades, a professor at Trinity College of Music (now Trinity Laban) for 35 years,…
My father, Peter Wolff, who died on Friday 16 March at the age of 81, was a Jewish refugee from Nazi Germany, who went on to run one of the largest clothing suppliers in the UK, before becom…
Leading lady of musicals Caroline O'Connor talks to Mark Shenton about returning to a favourite theatrical home in Leicester as Momma Rose
Two years after Elaine C Smith made a throwaway remark about playing Susan Boyle on stage, a musical about the singer's life has opened with Smith in the lead role. Matthew Hemley discovers …
Despite being one of the UK's most successful screenwriters, creating hit television drama series such as Band of Gold, Fat Friends and Playing the Field, Kay Mellor has remained true to her…
Independent Theatre Council chief executive Charlotte Jones investigates how companies working in the small and mid-scale sector have fared following Arts Council England funding cuts
I read the article describing Northumberland Theatre Company's struggle to continue touring March 22, page 4) with great sadness. Didn't this newspaper recently print a piece reporting that …
We welcome your positive coverage of the recent developments at the Gaiety (Ayr's Gaiety Theatre moves closer to reopening, Stage online, March 27), and would like to add a few more details …
Kander and Ebb, who gave us Chicago and Cabaret, also wrote and scored Curtains. But despite opening in Los Angeles and running for over 500 performances on Broadway, it has never been perfo…
I am very much looking forward to seeing Caroline O'Connor as Momma Rose in Gypsy in a couple of weeks' time at the Curve in Leicester.
PJ Jones, who wanted to find out about the theatrical career of Talbot Homewood (March 15, Stage Talk, page 9), could do no better than consult The Stage online archive, where he will find 1…
Fat Friends creator Kay Mellor has revealed that the loss of Arts Council England funding suffered by Leeds-based dance organisation Jabadao inspired her to write her new BBC1 drama, The Syn…
