Wednesday, January 21, 2015
Lance Percival found fame singing topical political songs in a calypso style on the BBC’s pioneering satire show That Was the Week
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:10AMTuesday, January 20, 2015
Anne Kirkbride, best known for playing Coronation Street’s Deirdre Barlow for 42 years, has died at the age of 60. Her death yesterday was confirmed in a statement from ITV, which said she…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMThursday, January 15, 2015
Mark Carruthers is to step down as chairman of Belfast’s Lyric Theatre after an eight-year tenure, during which he played a leading role in securing £18.5 million for a new twin-auditoriu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:49AMIn a prolific career that spanned seven decades, Bernard Kay was a familiar face on television and an equally imposing figure on stage. Born in Bolton, he was a reporter with the Bolton Even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMTuesday, January 13, 2015
Brian Clemens, the screenwriter who created The Avengers and The Professionals, has died aged 83. His death on January 10 was confirmed by his son, Samuel, who said the cause of death was a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMChanges to the Consumer Rights Bill that would see a reform of the secondary ticketing industry remain in limbo following a debate in the House of Commons yesterday. MPs discussed changes �…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:13AMMonday, January 12, 2015
British acting talent has been recognised by three major awards at this year’s Golden Globes ceremony, with Eddie Redmayne scooping best actor and Joanne Froggatt taking a best supporting …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:13AMFriday, January 9, 2015
Lance Percival, who found fame singing topical political songs in a calypso style on That Was the Week That Was and went on to become a stalwart of British television and film comedies, has …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:40PMThursday, January 8, 2015
As one half of an era-defining writing partnership with David Croft, Jeremy Lloyd dominated British television comedy in the 1970s and 1980s with two long-running hits reviled by critics but…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:34AMWednesday, January 7, 2015
Although television and film gave David Ryall’s gently crumpled face, careworn demeanour and frayed-at-the-edges charm a much-loved familiarity in recent years, he was an experienced stage…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMActor Kan Bonfils, best known on stage as the king in the 2000 revival of The King and I at the London Palladium, has died after collapsing during rehearsals for a show scheduled to openR…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:52AMWednesday, December 31, 2014
Together with his best friend and professional partner Roger Darrock, Stephen Howe was a mainstay of pantomimes for much of the last 40 years and more, the duo establishing themselves as par…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMWednesday, December 24, 2014
One of the most formidably intelligent actresses of her generation, Billie Whitelaw forged one of 20th-century theatre’s most significant partnerships with the playwright Samuel Beckett. A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:45AMTuesday, December 23, 2014
Chris Hornby, resident director of The Lion King since 2012, died suddenly on December 19 at the age of 43. The cause of death has not yet been confirmed. A graduate of Arts Educational Scho…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, December 15, 2014
The chair of supermarket chain Asda’s charitable foundation is being investigated by the police for allegedly diverting £180,000 to a ballet company founded by his partner. Former governm…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:55AMTuesday, December 9, 2014
Joanna Dunham’s flame burned brightly and long after she belatedly switched careers from art to acting. Having shown interest in both at the progressive, co-educational Bedales School, she…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:49AMWednesday, December 3, 2014
Arts and cultural organisations in England are “increasingly comfortable” with using digital technologies to develop business models and promote audience engagement, with “many seeing …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:29AMMonday, December 1, 2014
The financial impact of cultural events on local economies “tend not to be large and are more often zero,” according to new data produced by the What Works Network, a government-backed i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMJohan Engels was one of the most imaginative and admired stage designers of his generation, working extensively in theatre and opera throughout the UK, Europe, the United States, the Far Eas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:51AMFriday, November 28, 2014
Best known as the no-nonsense, straight-talking paramedic Nina Farr on BBC1’s long-running Casualty, Rebekah Gibbs found a large audience across more than 100 episodes of the medical drama…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:04AMWednesday, November 19, 2014
With a crumpled face, dyspeptic demeanour and gruffly disapproving scowl, Warren Clarke found unlikely fame as a politically incorrect Northern detective superintendent saddled with a libera…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMGarry Brown was one of the most prolific, popular and respected agents of his generation. During his three decades-plus association with Cunard Line, he was, many waggishly observed, the man…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:51AMThursday, November 13, 2014
Together with her actor-writer husband Roger Weldon, Pamela Marr was a stalwart of the weekly rep company Pyramid Players that flourished in the early part of the 1950s. Formed in Birmingham…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:40AMWednesday, November 12, 2014
Warren Clarke, best known as one half of television detective duo Dalziel and Pascoe, has died at the age of 67. In a statement, his agent said he died earlier today in his sleep after…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:52AMAfter graduating from the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art, Renee Asherson made her professional debut in a famed 1935 production of Romeo and Juliet at the New Theatre in which John G…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMTuesday, November 11, 2014
After serving as a pianist, harpist and percussionist with the Royal Artillery, Ian Fraser worked as a pianist in London’s thriving 1950s nightclub scene. His abilities as an arranger of s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:37AMFriday, November 7, 2014
Live variety entertainment is to take centre stage in a £1 million plan to revive the fortunes of Blackpool’s historic North Pier Theatre. Blackpool-based HRH Entertainments and the pier�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMTuesday, November 4, 2014
Jenny McCrindle was a leading light in the generation of young actors who formed era-defining relationships with their playwright peers in Scotland’s vibrant theatre scene in the late 1980…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:23AMMonday, November 3, 2014
David Watson had three careers and was successful in all of them, making the transition from nightclub singer to Hollywood actor to a much-respected agent with characteristically easy aplomb…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:20AMWednesday, October 29, 2014
Sporting a starched quiff that looked like the prow of an advancing ship, mutton-chop sideburns and clad in black leather from toe to fingertip, Alvin Stardust was one of the oddest chart su…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMAs the indulgent mother in the Oxo commercials that ran for 16 years from 1983, Lynda Bellingham became one of the most familiar faces on television. The familial jollity of the 30-second dr…
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