Thursday, September 13, 2012
The forthcoming London premiere of Mortal Engine - a multimedia performance by Australian contemporary dance group, Chunky Move - produced by German engineer, Frieder Weiss, and Australian c…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:44AM[SHARE]France's Theatre National Populaire in Villeurbanne, north east of Lyon, has recently reopened following extensive refurbishment and now features new Electronic Theatre Controls Ltd lighting…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AM[SHARE]Nick Gray, from London-based creative design practice, Renegade, has been the creative force behind the look of Kasabian's festival headline appearances this summer, appearances including T …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:26AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 12, 2012
One of the most fondly remembered dancers with Pan's People, the troupe that enlivened BBC television's Top of the Pops, was Louise Clarke. The daughter of a music arranger, she began dancin…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 11, 2012
The popular Irish soap opera Glenroe focused on a group of people living near a village pub, run by Teasy McDaid, who was played by Maureen Toal. The series topped the television ratings in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:01AM[SHARE]Monday, September 10, 2012
Hailed by his friend and comic Jimmy Tarbuck as "the king of the Palladium", Max Bygraves rose from rags to riches in a career that spanned five decades, at one time being Britain's highest …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:13AM[SHARE]Friday, September 7, 2012
So sad to hear of Max Bygraves' death. I remember him well, and so kind he was. For many years I have wanted to write to him - I knew he had retired to Australia and had lately been poorly. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:52PM[SHARE]Further to your lead article (A conflict of interest that brings integrity of criticism into doubt, September 6, page 10), I questioned Mastercard about a recent DiGi bill to Time Out - the …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:48PM[SHARE]Janet Suzman, among others, has rightly voiced concerns about the lack of opportunities for women in theatre, whether classics or indeed new plays. But surely one of the legacies of the amaz…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:46PM[SHARE]Your article about the talent agency that has defaulted in paying its artists for work on EastEnders (News, August 16, page 2) leaves me with great disappointment.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:46PM[SHARE]Anne Cooper, chair of the Farnham Theatre Association, asks for anyone who contributed towards the cost of building the Redgrave Theatre to contact her (Stage Talk, September 6, page 8).
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:44PM[SHARE]Sometimes, Tabard is baffled by the downright silly things some people do in the name of theatre. Producing a musical called Behind the Iron Mask springs to mind. But this week, Tabard heard…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PM[SHARE]Is Sheila Ferguson cursed? This is the question Tabard was forced to ask this week upon learning that a tour of the musical Daddy Cool, in which the actor and singer was set to star, has bee…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:08PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 6, 2012
As Janet Suzman prepares for the Chichester revival of her well-received Liverpool Playhouse production of Antony and Cleopatra, she tells Jonathan Lovett about directing Kim Cattrall in wha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AM[SHARE]ITV's Appropriate Adult, a drama about the murderer Fred West, was the big winner at the British Academy Television Awards, with its stars Emily Watson and Dominic West named best leading ac…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AM[SHARE]As Downton Abbey returns with a third series, Ben Dowell talks to members of the cast and production team about the broad-ranging appeal of the ITV1 show and how new recruit Shirley MacLaine…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:20AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 5, 2012
Avolites Ltd has appointed Koy Neminathan to the position of sales director and JB Toby as technical director.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:58AM[SHARE]PLASA Events claims that momentum and interest for PLASA Focus: Stamford 2012 is growing, with a number of new exhibitors having committed to the free, two-day event which takes place on Nov…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:52AM[SHARE]Following three years at XL Video in the USA where he oversaw its Los Angeles office, Phil Mercer has returned to his native UK as group head of concert touring at the Hertfordshire-based co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:42AM[SHARE]London-based rental company, Entec Sound & Light's lighting division recently supplied equipment and crew for Portishead's european tour, and Paloma Faith's show in Peterborough, thereby ren…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:28AM[SHARE]Monday, September 3, 2012
Forty years have passed since a time capsule was buried beneath the foundations of what was to become the Farnham Redgrave Theatre. On September 9, 1972, Michael Redgrave got to his knees an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PM[SHARE]I am so glad the Queen did not join Equity (Chit Chat, August 23, page 7), as I am, and have been for many years, a member, and I may have found I was no longer wanted.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:49PM[SHARE]The idea of the Olympics Opening Ceremony was good, and it was brilliantly orchestrated. But like the Diamond Jubilee celebrations, overall it was a failure.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PM[SHARE]I feel strongly about a subject that affects young people. A Night Less Ordinary was a nationwide pilot scheme, set up in February 2009 by Arts Council England and the Department for Culture…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:43PM[SHARE]Friday, August 31, 2012
Playwright Kaite O'Reilly is seeking to confront and confound people's perceptions of disability with her latest production, writes Derek Smith
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AM[SHARE]Soul Sister star Emi Wokoma talks to Jonathan Watson about portraying Tina Tuner as the show transfers to the West End
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:53AM[SHARE]Just the other day Tabard was surveying the classical music landscape and wondering why there isn't an oratorio based on one of Coronation Street's most famous residents, Ken Barlow. Well lo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AM[SHARE]The Edinburgh International Television Festival once again saw the great and good from the world of broadcasting descend on a conference centre for three days to celebrate their industry. We…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AM[SHARE]Thursday, August 30, 2012
It was inevitable that Tracy Reed, who has died at the age of 69, would follow a career in the performing arts. She was born Clare Tracy Compton Pelissier in London on September 21, 1942, he…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PM[SHARE]Despite appearing in just six episodes of Doctor Who - as the Time Lady Romana during Tom Baker's tenure in the title role - it left a stamp on Mary Tamm's career that proved almost impossib…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:29PM[SHARE]As a producer of such shows as Beadle's About and TFI Friday, Stephen Joel was a highly popular figure in the television entertainment industry. He began his career in stage management worki…
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