Tuesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMThe daughter of actor Jessie Evans and director Donald Bain, Imogen Bain overcame childhood dyslexia to follow them on to stage, television and film. As a child actor, she played Leonard Ros…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:26AMFriday, August 8, 2014
Drama, comedy and light entertainment provided five of the ten most watched programmes in 2013, including a 12.8 million average audience for Doctor Who. According to media regulator Ofcom�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:46AMTuesday, August 5, 2014
China has announced plans for a new £190 million theatre and production facility intended to stimulate musical theatre in the country and “localise the Western art form”. The 2 billion …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:28AMFriday, August 1, 2014
A character actor with star quality, Dora Bryan made a virtue out of versatility in a career that moved from seaside summer seasons to the West End, pantomime to Pinter, revues to radio and …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMThursday, July 24, 2014
Dora Bryan, one of the most recognisable faces and voices of the past 60 years on television, film, radio and theatre, has died at the age of 91. Her death at a nursing home in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTuesday, July 22, 2014
New plays by Tom Murphy, Mark O’Rowe and Hugo Hamilton together with the Irish premiere of Schaubuhne Berlin’s acclaimed Hamlet for six actors form part of this year’s Dublin Theatre F…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMMonday, July 21, 2014
The BBC spent £6 million less on talent in 2013/14, the Corporation’s latest annual report claims, with a £194 million bill for its star presenters and performers representing a 15% fall…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:16AMFriday, July 18, 2014
Television soaps Hollyoaks and Emmerdale have become more violent over the past decade a report by media regulator Ofcom has revealed. New research into episodes of violence screened before…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMWednesday, July 16, 2014
Ireland’s largest theatre, the Bord Gais Energy Theatre in Dublin, has been placed on the market with an asking price of €20 million (£15.8 million). The sale has been forced by the Iri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMMonday, July 7, 2014
The immediate futures of three council-run theatres in Worthing have been guaranteed, despite a combined overspend of more than £480,000 in 2012-13. The Connaught and Pavilion theatres and…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMWednesday, July 2, 2014
The National Theatre’s newly refurbished and re-named Dorfman Theatre (formerly the Cottesloe) is to open after several months’ delay in September with the British premiere of off-Broadw…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:58AMTuesday, July 1, 2014
A review into Dublin’s Abbey Theatre has recommended that the venue places a greater emphasis on producing Irish plays and commits €1 million to touring productions. The independent …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMTuesday, June 24, 2014
Kevin Elyot had been a jobbing actor in steady employment for more than 20 years when his play My Night With Reg revealed him to also be a writer of enormous skill, stylistic inventiveness a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:27PMThursday, June 19, 2014
Like the best comic creations, the beating heart of Rik Mayall’s often outrageous characters was anarchic aggression. A leading figure in the alternative comedy movement that emerged as th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:52AMSaturday, June 14, 2014
Actors Daniel Day Lewis and Maggie Smith have been recognised in the Queen’s birthday honours list, which also sees Young Vic artistic director David Lan and English National Opera’s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMThursday, June 12, 2014
New plays by Owen McCafferty and Marie Jones and a revival of Stewart Parker’s Pentecost are to feature in the newly announced summer-winter season at Belfast’s Lyric Theatre. The Northe…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:11AMWednesday, June 11, 2014
Emma Jordan, artistic director of Belfast theatre company Prime Cut Productions, has been awarded £295,000 by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation breakthrough fund, which supports cultural entrepren…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:59AMThe appointment of Mary Soames, the youngest surviving daughter of Winston Churchill, to the chair of the National Theatre board in 1988 raised many an eyebrow at the time. With little previ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMMonday, June 9, 2014
Rik Mayall, who found fame in the cult television comedies The Young Ones and Bottom, has died at the age of 56. His death this morning was confirmed by his agent, Brunskill Management, but …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMPlaywright Kevin Elyot, best known for his 1994 comedy My Night With Reg, has died after a long illness at the age of 63. Elyot was born in Birmingham and began his career as an…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:03AMThursday, June 5, 2014
There weren’t many dancers of Will Gaines’ generation who could claim to have learned their trade in nightclubs and jazz dives but went on to appear at the Edinburgh Festival, London Pal…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:59AMWednesday, June 4, 2014
Born into a respectable but unhappy Church of Ireland family in Lisburn, County Antrim, Randal Kinkead escaped his dour Northern Irish home life for equally unhappy schooldays as a boarder a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:58PMThe contribution of Judi Richards to Welsh theatre over the past four decades was constant and never less than committed. Born in Cardiff and a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:57AMFriday, May 30, 2014
Arts Council England is to fund the lion’s share of a £24 million repair and maintenance programme at the Southbank Centre. The Queen Elizabeth Hall, Purcell Room and Hayward Gallery will…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:24AMThursday, May 29, 2014
Playwright Martin Lynch has accused Belfast’s Metropolitan Arts Centre of being “elitist” and favouring “the latest trendy thing from Edinburgh or London” at the expense of local w…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:31AMThe granddaughter of professional ballroom dancers, the actor Barbara Murray inherited a stage and screen presence that was every bit as graceful and elegant. Born in London, she was sent to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:51AMWednesday, May 28, 2014
Garsington Opera has announced first-time partnerships with the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Philharmonia Orchestra as it begins its 25th anniversay season. The Buckinghamsire-based sum…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:31AMTwo innovative theatre projects have received funding from a £900,000 purse newly created by Belfast City Council and the Arts Council of Northern Ireland to encourage large-scale cross-com…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMTuesday, May 27, 2014
The Royal Opera House saw its income increase by 2% to £112 million in 2012-13, in a year that brought 675,000 people to the Covent Garden venue for 415 performances by its opera and ballet…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:30AMWednesday, May 21, 2014
In the year George Christie was born, his parents were busy making history with the launch of an opera festival in the newly opened theatre in the grounds of their East Sussex manor house, G…
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