Tuesday, April 28, 2015
In 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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Ronnie Carroll was a Belfast-born singer whose style owed much to American crooners and who enjoyed considerable popularity in the 1960s. The
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Spotted by a photographer at the age of 16, Claire Gordon was signed to a five-year film contract by an industry keen
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As the BBC’s head of music and general director of English National Opera, Dennis Marks was a passionate and occasionally provocative advocate
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As a prodigiously self- confident 15-year-old drummer, guitarist and singer in Channel 4’s Rock School, Chris Hardman already had sufficient charisma to
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The BBC has announced a £2.2 million annual deal with Northern Ireland Screen to boost programming in the region. The partnership will
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Neal Street Productions, creators of television’s Call the Midwife and producers of West End hits Enron, Shrek the Musical and Charlie and the
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by Michael Quinn Northern Ireland’s cultural sector has been left reeling after the arts council announced cuts to a number of organisations,
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Of the more than 130 television and film credits he acquired in a career spanning six decades, it was his last role
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMAs co-founder of DubbelJoint Theatre Company and head of the BBC’s radio drama department in Belfast, Pam Brighton was a significant and
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Family legend had it that Pamela Cundell was a distant relative of Henry Condell, the manager of the Lord Chamberlain’s Men theatrical
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The days of the television licence fee are numbered and some BBC programmes are likely to be available only through subscription channels
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:38AMThe chief executive of Arts and Business Northern Ireland has expressed “a real fear” that arts companies may be forced to close when
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Blessed with an imposing physique and a voice as powerful as it was poetic, Alan Howard was a towering figure in British
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Entertainment unions have issued a joint statement saying they are “totally committed” to English National Opera following Arts Council England’s decision to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:47AMBelfast’s Lyric Theatre has taken the lion’s share of prizes at this year’s Irish Times Theatre Awards, winning four of the 15
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Plans to increase attendance and participation in the arts by disabled people in Northern Ireland have been launched by the region’s arts council. The strategy will oblige funded organisat…
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Alan Howard, one of the most acclaimed Shakespearean actors of his generation, has died at the age of 77. After falling ill with pneumonia last month, his health continued to deteriorate unt…
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Without any formal training, Jeffrey Segal became a seasoned performer on stage and amassed nearly 100 television and film credits to become one of the most recognisable and reliable charact…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:38AMIn a career that spanned five decades, Derek Rencher became the Royal Ballet Company’s most experienced performer. He created roles in some of the most memorable ballets of the last centur…
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As the dutiful front-door sentinel cheerily sending Leonard Rossiter’s disintegrating husband off to work each morning in David Nobbs’ The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin – and there …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:45AMTo successive generations of TV viewers, Geraldine McEwan was, by turns, Muriel Spark’s self-confidently provocative pedagogue Miss Jean Brodie, one half of EF Benson’s whimsical but was…
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An actor of considerable versatility, Barrie Ingham was equally at home with the classics as he was with musicals, enjoying leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company, National Theatre…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:17PMWith The Avengers and The Professionals, the writer and producer Brian Clemens stamped his signature on two iconic television shows that captured the zeitgeist of their respective eras to pe…
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Geraldine McEwan, a lynchpin of the Royal Shakespeare Company’s first seasons, stalwart of the West End and a prolific television actress, has died at the age of 82. Her death, on January …
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Brian Blessed has had to withdraw from playing King Lear because of a heart condition. Blessed had been starring in the production at Holy Trinity Church Guildford since it opened on January…
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English National Opera has defended itself against claims by outgoing chairman Martyn Rose that it is losing money and audiences as a result of failures by artistic director John Berry. The …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMAnne Kirkbride appeared in 1,439 episodes of Coronation Street across more than 40 years and became one of the long-running soap’s most popular matriarchs and a much-loved television icon.…
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Barrie Ingham, who played leading roles with the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre and enjoyed success on Broadway, has died at the age of 82. His death on January 23 in Palm Be…
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Lance Percival found fame singing topical political songs in a calypso style on the BBC’s pioneering satire show That Was the Week That Was and went on to become a stalwart of British tele…
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