2,435 stories by "The Stage"
I met Fleur Chandler, who died on December 15, 2011, aged 63, at the RSC while working on Terry Hand's production of Coriolanus. Fleur played Virgilia to Alan Howard's Coriolanus. Actor Gabr…
When his Merchant Navy freighter was torpedoed and sunk en route to Malta in 1942, the 17-year-old Frederick Treves saved several shipmates and was awarded the British Empire Medal for brave…
The Poor School lost all electronic and paper records in a fire last June and we are currently trying to establish contact with ex-graduates so as to rebuild our database.
For over six decades I've been a regular recipient of The Stage and occasional contributor to the now defunct Heydays page. Each week I look with morbid curiosity at the obituary section to …
I would like to hear from anyone who may have worked with Francess and Anna May Watt - daughters of ventriloquist Valentine Prince - who, in the 1950s, were known as The Prince Sisters and F…
It was interesting to read the correspondence about the rolling credits at the end of TV programmes (Stage Talk, February 16, page 8). Am I one of the few people who buys the Radio Times jus…
Concerns reported in The Stage (February 2, page 4) about the inadequate prominence of named performers on TV credits, together with suggested reforms of the structures of Equity (page 5, Fe…
Many in the entertainment business across the UK will be familiar with family-run Gaby's Deli in Charing Cross Road as a favourite feeding station prior or post auditions and performances. G…
Matthew Hemley's article, Living the Dream (The Stage Online, February 10) explores the industry's perception of TV casting shows and seems to conclude that they are here to stay. That may w…
Paying experienced dance professionals badly to appear in ballet, contemporary and musical theatre productions has been a scandal for decades now (The Stage, February 9, page 2). I would sim…
Philip Ridley tells Aleks Sierz about his new play Shivered and why the revival of his 1991 work The Pitchfork Disney has even more relevance to today's YouTube and reality TV-obsessed soci…
As Singin' in the Rain opens at the Palace Theatre, Adam Cooper talks to Matthew Hemley about facing cynicism when he progressed into musical theatre and why he no longer reads his reviews
As his latest play In Basildon opens at London's Royal Court, playwright David Eldridge talks to Matt Trueman about how his Essex heritage impacts on his work and why the position of the wri…
Nearly 300 Robe lighting LED fixtures were employed recently in a groundbreaking lighting design by Andy Hurst at the 2012 Total Production International Awards.
As the stern disciplinarian Inspector Monroe in ITV's long-running The Bill, Colin Tarrant was a familiar television face for more than a decade, appearing in nearly 600 episodes of the poli…
A piano virtuoso, Robert Lockhart turned to writing music after finding the rigours of live performance to be overwhelming. His talent for arranging and conducting in the studio led to many …
Tabard couldn't help being feeling a little bit, well, surprised (and baffled) by the casting of Russell Grant as the Wizard in The Wizard of Oz. After all, he replaces Michael Crawford, who…
Love was very much in the air at the State of the Arts conference. It was Valentine's Day and every speaker reached for some lovers' quip to honour the date. Tabard doesn't mind telling you …
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The recent Off West End Theatre Awards, also known as the Offies, saw Howard Hudson pick up the prize for best lighting designer, a category sponsored by ETC.
Design Day, the annual fundraising event for Light Relief in the UK and Behind the Scenes in the US and Canada, will take place on Tuesday, April 24.The main fundraising event for the charit…
Unusual Rigging has announced that, with immediate effect, all its NRC assessments will take place at the company's facility in Bugbrooke, Northamptonshire, including those originally schedu…
Creative & Cultural Skills is celebrating 1,000 young people being employed as creative apprentices across the UK, since the scheme launched in 2008.
PLASA Events has extended the PLASA 2012 free registration offer. More than 6,000 people have already registered for this year's show, to be held at Earls Court in London from September 9-12.
John Thaxter, who has died aged 84, was a much-valued reviewer for The Stage for more than two decades.
