Wednesday, October 29, 2014
As 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMWednesday, October 22, 2014
Belfast’s Grand Opera House is to review an access scheme for disabled customers, following evidence that it is being abused by people pretending to have disabilities. Launched in Septembe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:02AMMonday, October 20, 2014
Mark Shenton, former theatre critic of the Sunday Express, has lost his employment tribunal against the paper for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination. The tribunal ruled that Shenton …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:03AMActor and broadcaster Lynda Bellingham has died less than a month after revealing she had decided to refuse chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer. A statement released by her agent Sue Lat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:01AMTuesday, October 14, 2014
The son of Gypsy-peasant stock, Yuri Lyubimov stood at the centre of Russia’s theatrical life for much of the second half of the last century. As founder, in 1964, of the Moscow-based Taga…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:51PMBritish talent and programmes dominate the newly announced nominations for this year’s International Emmy Awards, with Olivia Colman up for best actress for her turn in Broadchurch. In tot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMFriday, October 10, 2014
For a time in the 1970s, hardly a week went by without Lynsey de Paul’s music being heard on radio and television. One of the most popular songwriters in her bubblegum and glam-rock heyday…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:46AMThursday, October 9, 2014
The Soho Theatre is facing a substantial fine after pleading guilty to two charges under health and safety legislation for an accident that left a stagehand paralysed for life. The inciden…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMWednesday, October 8, 2014
In an age when female presenters were conspicuously rare on radio, Sheila Tracy made broadcasting history when she became the first woman newsreader on Radio 4 in 1974. By then she had been …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMMonday, October 6, 2014
The National Theatre generated record-breaking income of £100 million in 2013/14, with ticket sales from NT Live screenings to cinemas at home and abroad increasing 179% from £2.4 million …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMWednesday, October 1, 2014
Ian Price was that rarest and luckiest of actors, one who was seldom out of work until illness forced an early end to a busy theatre and television career. Born in Penarth, South Wales, afte…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:15AMTuesday, September 30, 2014
Graham Theakston will be best remembered for his gripping direction of Paula Milne’s 1995 drama serial The Politician’s Wife. Starring Juliet Stevenson as the loyal spouse who discovers …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMThursday, September 25, 2014
London’s Southbank Centre is set to receive £4.9 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards a planned £25 million repair and maintenance programme. The announcement of the “earmark…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:10PMWednesday, September 24, 2014
Together with Stanley Baxter, Angus Lennie formed one of the great pantomime dame partnerships of the last century and became the stuff of Scottish theatre legend. The easy, reflex reciproci…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMTuesday, September 23, 2014
Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre has been sold for €28 million (£22 million) to a husband-and-wife team, who are believed to have outbid organisations including Live Nation and Ambassa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:47AMTuesday, September 16, 2014
Donald Sinden was part of Britain’s theatrical landscape for more than six decades. He made a distinguished contribution to Shakespearean theatre and boasted one of the most impressive lis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMMonday, September 15, 2014
The Scottish comedian turned actor Angus Lennie has died at the age of 84. The Glasgow-born performer began as a comic on the variety circuit before making the transition into acting. In the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:07PMFriday, September 12, 2014
Born into a showbusiness family, Bill Kerr made his stage debut in his native South Africa before he was out of nappies. More than eight decades later, he was still performing. In the interv…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:01PMJohn Bardon, best known for his 15-year spell as Jim Branning in EastEnders, has died at the age of 75. His death follows a long period of illness in the aftermath of a severe stroke…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:50PMDonald Sinden, a star of stage and screen for more than six decades, has died at the age of 90 following a long struggle with cancer. His death was confirmed in a statement by his…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMWednesday, September 10, 2014
Owen McCafferty has been appointed playwright-in-residence at the Lyric in Belfast. The Belfast-born writer is the third playwright to take up the position since the Lyric re-opened in 2011 …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMMonday, September 8, 2014
Clare Cathcart’s entry on the ulsteractors.com website begins with a now poignant assessment of the County Fermanagh-born actress as “cogent but undervalued”. A graduate of the Univers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMFriday, September 5, 2014
Clare Cathcart, the Northern Irish actress known for her roles in television’s Call the Midwife, Doctors and New Tricks, has died at the age of 48. Her death at home in Brighton yesterday …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:37AMIf the film career promised by her sparkling debut in the 1949 comedy Whisky Galore! never quite materialised, Gabrielle Blunt found theatre and television more productive arenas throughout …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMWednesday, September 3, 2014
Sandy Wilson’s reputation as a leading popular British composer and lyricist rests firmly on two musicals: his phenomenally successful pastiche of the 1920s, The Boy Friend; and Valmouth, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMWednesday, August 27, 2014
The composer and lyricist Sandy Wilson, best known for the musicals The Boyfriend and Valmouth, has died at the age of 90. A statement from his agent Nick Quinn confirmed his death in the ea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMTuesday, August 26, 2014
A towering figure in Britain’s cultural life over the past half-century, Richard Attenborough will be best remembered as one of the most articulate advocates for a domestic film industry b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:41AMWednesday, August 20, 2014
The actor Charles Keating found television fame on both sides of the Atlantic in very different programmes. In the UK, it was as gauche Canadian businessman Rex Mottram in ITV’s Brideshead…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:44AMTuesday, August 19, 2014
JJ Murphy was one of the most recognisable faces and voices of his generation in Northern Ireland’s theatres. He died, as fellow actor Niall Cusack approvingly remarked, “in harness, ind…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMThursday, August 14, 2014
As founder of Dublin’s Art Theatre Productions, and a director and documentary maker with state broadcaster RTE, Louis Lentin was a key figure in Ireland’s arts scene in the second half …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:28AMTuesday, August 12, 2014
When Sydney Opera House opened in 1973 with a production of Prokofiev’s War and Peace, it made a star of the now iconic building and launched the international career of the 25-year-old so…
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