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Rigging Services, based in Birmingham, will be conducting live demonstrations of the features, benefits and changes to its online shop RS Direct from its stand RA-C14 at PLASA Focus (Leeds A…
Black Light's next pyrotechnic training course takes place on April 30 at the Lyceum, Edinburgh.
The organisers of The ABTT 2012 Theatre Show (June 13 and 14), having recently recorded very healthy visitor registrations - some 1,000 in just two days - state that exhibitors appear equall…
HSL, the Blackburn-based lighting and visuals rental company, is supplying lighting equipment, a 26-axes Kinesys automation system, all associated trussing and rigging plus crew to Snow Patr…
Together with his brother Richard, Robert Bernard Sherman defined the musical sound of Disney movies in the 1960s with scores and songs for now classic films including Mary Poppins, The Jung…
Sixty years after her stage and film debut performances, the actress Faith Brook enjoyed the biggest success of her career. Her portrayal of an elderly woman experiencing sexual passion for …
As the West End prepares to toast its successes, Mark Shenton turns the spotlight on this year's Laurence Olivier Awards nominees and considers how they reflect the current climate of new wr…
As Jonathan Slinger leads Michael Boyd's last hurrah in the What Country Friends Is This? season at the RSC, playing Malvolio in Twelfth Night, Prospero in The Tempest and Dr Pinch in The Co…
As ITV prepares for the launch of its four-part drama Titanic on Sunday, Maggie Brown reports on how the project was developed and assesses whether the series is likely to sink or swim
Spare a thought for the hardworking wardrobe folk working behind the scenes in the West End production of One Man, Two Guvnors.
It's double portions of One Man, Two Guvnors this week. We have long fancied ourselves as some kind of theatrical soothsayers. We predicted the rise of the likes of Cats and Les Miserables b…
Funktion One has announced the launch of its new website, having undergone a complete redesign with an improved graphical interface including an extensive photo gallery and other new feature…
West London lighting and visuals rental company, Colour Sound Experiment, has significantly expanded its warehouse facility by handily acquiring the building right next door and, having now …
Colchester-based Illuminate Design has helped one of Britain's flagship dance theatre companies move to a new creation and rehearsal space in Ashford, Kent.
The Kaiser Chiefs, said to be among the country's favourite live performers, are back on the road again with a characteristically boisterous set and with a four week, sold-out, UK tour just …
My recollection of the TV series Robin's Nest is that the character played by David Kelly (obits, March 15) was named Enda, not Arnold.
I was very interested to read in last week's issue the article about the Stage Management Association first ever conference (March 15, page 39).
Is Equity's governing council about to kill off democratic representation for thousands of its members after consulting just a few hundred?
I see that US actor George Clooney was arrested outside the Sudanese embassy in Washington DC, for demonstrating about the humanitarian crisis in Sudan. In my 15 years of campaigning (agains…
Philip Madoc could speak seven languages as if they were his Welsh mother tongue and could get by in another three (Huron Indian included). He was no less eloquent in an acting career that s…
Davy Jones, the diminutive, cherubic-faced vocalist of The Monkees, achieved worldwide fame as the heartthrob pin-up of the first manufactured pop band. Answering an advert for "four insane …
When, aged 12, Hal Roach entered a talent contest as a boy soprano and got a better response for an unrehearsed joke than for his singing, the die was cast for a career that would see him la…
Rag, Tag and Bobtail, part of the Watch With Mother children's programmes on BBC Television in the 1950s, were created by Louise Cochrane. Rag, a hedgehog, Tag, a mouse, and Bobtail, a rabbi…
Adrian Foley became the 8th Lord Foley at the age of four, following the death of his father from meningitis at the age of 29 in 1927. It was a title he held for more than 80 years, during w…
