Monday, July 6, 2015
For successive generations of British television audiences from the early 1960s to the middle of the 1980s, Val Doonican presented a softer,
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Val Doonican, a mainstay of television light entertainment from the 1960s to the mid 1980s, has died at the age of 88.
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As niche markets go, championing forgotten music theatre gems and courtly masques of the English Baroque was territory ripe for revisiting when
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00PMAs the dapper, unflappable and bowler-hatted John Steed, Patrick Macnee became one of the most recognisable and iconic actors of his generation,
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Jill Hyem was an actress and writer who co-created the popular radio serial Waggoner’s Walk and later became a prominent television writer,
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Patrick Macnee, best known for playing John Steed in The Avengers, has died aged 93. His death yesterday (June 25) at his
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Record audience numbers and box office receipts boosted the Royal Opera House’s income by 12% to £125.7 million, its annual report reveals.
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Ron Moody, best known for his performance of Fagin in Lionel Bart’s Oliver!, has died at the age of 91. A latecomer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:44AMA stalwart of Scottish theatre for more than 30 years, Jake D’Arcy found wider fame in a string of comedies, notably as
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Belfast’s newest theatre and arts space could be forced to close just three years after opening if it fails to secure £1
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:51PMChristina Reid was a leading light among a small group of Northern Irish playwrights who emerged in the 1980s to document the
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Richard Johnson, a member of the inaugural Royal Shakespeare Company, has died at the age of 87. His death on June 6 after
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Terry Sue-Patt was the first pupil to be seen onscreen in the BBC’s hugely popular school serial Grange Hill. As the small
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A popular and highly regarded stalwart of theatre in the north-east of England, Jackie Fielding’s association with the Mill Dam theatre in
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A regular face on television, often as a figure of stern authority, Peter Howell was also a more varied figure on stage
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMPlaywright Christina Reid has died at the age of 73. News of the Belfast-born writer’s death on May 31 was confirmed by
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After five years as an assistant with the BBC, Barry Newbery cut his teeth as a fully fledged television designer in 1962
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:56AMFew actors find themselves being acclaimed as “a spectacular find” at the age of 84. Producer Sue Vertue’s hailing of Eileen Essell as
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As ‘The ‘Bird’ With the Feathers’, Lee Stevens was one of the most popular and hard-working female impersonators in a generation of
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Garsington Opera is to offer free screenings of two productions from its annual summer festival at six locations in east England as
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Northern Ireland’s largest further and higher education college is to close its drama and dance courses, as it looks to make budget
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Writing about Maya Plisetskaya on the occasion of a gala 80th birthday salute at the Royal Opera House in 2006, The Stage’s
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Nigel Terry was never a predictable actor except in as much as he was always compelling to watch. With handsome, chiselled features
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:05PMLaurence Harbottle, one of the most influential entertainment lawyers of his generation, has died at the age of 91. His death on
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London’s Royal Albert Hall invested a record £7.9 million – a year on year increase of 80% – in its charitable activities
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When Brian Couzens formed Chandos Records in 1979, he unexpectedly found himself at the forefront of not one but two revolutions in
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Growing up, after the separation of her parents, in the home of her painter and illustrator grandfather, Warwick William Lendon (a one-time
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Paul Almond directed the first series of what many regard as one of the most ambitious – certainly the longest lasting –
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For more than a decade, ventriloquist Keith Harris was one of the biggest stars in light entertainment, hosting his own variety-based Saturday
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Entertainer Keith Harris, best known for his ventriloquist act with green duck Orville, has died at the age of 67 from cancer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMIn a long career that embraced both theatre and academia, Katherine Worth could lay claim to being the first female professor of
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