Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:12AMThursday, May 8, 2014
John ‘Jack’ Henry Moore was a controversial figure in the early days of Edinburgh’s Traverse Theatre. Championed by the then artistic director Jim Haynes, the two had met in Dublin in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:33AMWednesday, May 7, 2014
George Christie, the chairman of Glyndebourne Opera from 1958 to 1999, has died aged 79. A statement issued by his son and current executive chairman, Gus, said: “My father passed away pea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:32AMTuesday, May 6, 2014
BBC Trust chairman Chris Patten has announced his resignation from the post with immediate effect. The Corporation said the decision was taken “on health grounds following major heart sur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:41PMFriday, May 2, 2014
Actors, Bob Hoskins once said, “are just entertainers, even the serious ones”. It was a credo that helped him sustain a career in theatre, television and film, and made him a star on bot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:11PMThursday, May 1, 2014
London’s Royal Albert Hall enjoyed a bumper year in 2013, posting record audience numbers of 1.71 million and operating income of £18.6 million, up 10.4% on the previous year. The figures…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMWednesday, April 30, 2014
Bob Hoskins, who shot to fame in Dennis Potter’s Pennies from Heaven and won an International Emmy best actor award in 2010 for Jimmy McGovern’s The Street, has died from pneumonia at th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMMonday, April 28, 2014
The Sage Gateshead has announced two top-level management departures, with general director Anthony Sargent and director of learning and participation Katherine Zeserson both stepping down i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMThursday, April 24, 2014
Despite a late start – he was 27 when he made his professional debut with the Elizabethan Singers in 1958 – bass-baritone John Shirley-Quirk rose rapidly to become one of the most sought…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:14AMWednesday, April 23, 2014
Arts Council Wales is to develop a national scheme that will give disabled people and their carers concessions on ticket prices for theatres and arts centres throughout the country. The deve…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:41AMFriday, April 18, 2014
Bob Larbey was responsible for some of the most popular and enduring television comedies of the last half-century. On his own, and with his long-time writing partner John Esmonde, he was a n…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMThursday, April 17, 2014
The Grand Opera House in Belfast has appointed Mary-Clare Deane as its new chief executive. The announcement comes on the eve of the 120th anniversary of the historic, Frank Matcham-designed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMTuesday, April 15, 2014
Germany’s renowned Schaubuhne Berlin theatre company is to make its first visit to Northern Ireland as part of this year’s Ulster Bank Belfast Festival at Queen’s. The company will bri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:52AMFriday, April 11, 2014
Novelist and playwright Sue Townsend, best known for her series of books chronicling the life of Adrian Mole and for her stage play The Queen and I, has died aged 68. Mole first appeared as&…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:47AMThursday, April 10, 2014
Among the many cult-acquiring ‘firsts’ Derek Martinus could lay claim to as one of the first directors to work on Doctor Who – he helmed 26 episodes between 1965-70 – were the first …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:38AMMonday, April 7, 2014
Kate O’Mara was the fifth generation of a theatrical family that included a member of Edmund Kean’s company at Drury Lane, actor-managers and an impresario. Born Francesca Carroll in Lei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:27AMBBC Northern Ireland’s crime series The Fall was the big winner at the Irish Film and Television Awards at the weekend, with Jamie Dornan picking up two prizes: best actor for his performa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:09AMFriday, April 4, 2014
Bob Larbey, co-writer of hit television comedies The Good Life, Ever Decreasing Circles and A Fine Romance, has died aged 79. Together with John Esmonde, Larbey formed one of the most succes…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:45PMThursday, April 3, 2014
Culture minister Maria Miller has made an apology to the House of Commons and been ordered to re-pay £5,800 following the publication of a critical report into her attitude towards an inves…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMLuton-based TEDGroup has completed a management buy-out from currrent owners Qdos, led by chief executive Robin Breese-Davies and managing director Amanda Donohue. Incorporated in 2001 and a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMNew York state is to offer financial incentives to investors in new theatre productions in the form of a 25% tax credit from the beginning of 2015. The benefit – which will be capped at…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMWednesday, April 2, 2014
Able to switch seamlessly from demanding mezzo-soprano parts on the opera stage to ethereal contralto roles in the concert hall, Anna Reynolds was one of the most expressive singers Britain …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMMonday, March 31, 2014
The Phoenix Theatre and Studios in Lewes, East Sussex has been destroyed by a fire that took 70 firefighters more than three hours to bring under control. The blaze at the 100-seat theatre b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:23PMIncidental music for two short-run comedies aside, Mitch Leigh’s first full score for a Broadway musical set the former advertising jingle writer a target he never again hit with such cert…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:35PMNewcastle’s Theatre Royal has launched a campaign to stop two new nightclubs opening directly opposite its historic city-centre home. Theatre management have argued that the venues would b…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMFriday, March 28, 2014
Jeffery Dench, the actor-brother of Dame Judi Dench, has died at the age of 86. A graduate of the Central School of Speech and Drama, he joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963 and beca…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:37AMThursday, March 27, 2014
BBC4’s flagship arts programme The Review Show is to be cancelled. It will make its final broadcast after 20 years this weekend when it will feature Harry Hill’s newly-opened X Factor mu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:35AMPlans for a new £40 million home for Bimingham Conservatoire have been announced. Scheduled to open in 2017 when the existing conservatoire buildings will be demolished as part of a £450 m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:32AMMonday, March 24, 2014
Investigations into the cause of a partial ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre on December 19 have identified a possible cause for the incident, which injured 76 people and closed the We…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMMonday, March 17, 2014
Derby’s Assembly Rooms has cancelled all performances until and including March 24 following a substantial fire on Friday evening. The blaze destroyed the top-floor car park of the city-ce…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:55AMWednesday, March 5, 2014
The NEC Group is to be sold by Birmingham City Council after nearly 40 years in public ownership. The Group – which includes the LG Arena, National Indoor Arena, National Exhibition Centre…
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