Wednesday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:51AMMonday, March 3, 2014
Malcolm Tierney was one of the most compelling character actors of his generation and equally adept at taking leading roles with the same dark, dangerous charisma. His career began in amateu…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:25AMThe Birmingham Hippodrome has been included in this year’s Sunday Times list of the 100 best not-for-profit organisations to work for. The annual survey attracted 897 entries from companie…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:36AMSaturday, March 1, 2014
There were few television sitcoms in the 1970s that Ken Jones didn’t appear in. Or so it must have seemed at the time. He began the decade enjoying recurring appearances as a factory worke…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMThursday, February 27, 2014
In his retirement, Thomson Smillie graced many a long holiday cruise with his enthusiastic lectures on the allure and appeal of opera. He was speaking from an informed position, having produ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMPlaywright Lucy Kirkwood has won the $25,000 (£15,000) Susan Smith Blackburn prize in the US for her play Chimerica, first seen at the Almeida and Harold Pinter theatres in London last year…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:09AMWednesday, February 26, 2014
Actor Philip Seymour Hoffman, who died earlier this month aged 46, is to have a new playwriting prize established in his memory. Aimed at recognising previouly unpublished writers, the $45,0…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:34AMTuesday, February 25, 2014
One of the men accused of biting off part of actor Clive Mantle’s ear in a Newcastle upon Tyne hotel last March has claimed he acted in self defence when the former Casualty star behaved...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:48AMMonday, February 24, 2014
A revival of Tennessee William’s A Streetcar Named Desire by Dublin’s Gate Theatre has won three categories in the Irish Times Theatre Awards, including best director for Ethan McSweeney…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:42AMWednesday, February 19, 2014
The case against two men charged with biting off a part of actor Clive Mantle’s left ear in March last year has begun at Newcastle Crown Court. Giving evidence against the men, both in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMMonday, February 17, 2014
The son of an actress mother and playwright father, Maximilian Schell made his own acting debut at the age of three in one of his father’s plays. Born in Austria but raised in Switzerland …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:38AMWednesday, February 12, 2014
London arts management consultancy Bonnar Keenlyside has been appointed by the Irish Arts Council to conduct a review of the Abbey Theatre’s operations. The move follows the leaking of an …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:11AMMonday, February 10, 2014
Philip Seymour Hoffman was best known to a wider audience as a screen actor of remarkable intensity and vividness. Nominated three times for a best supporting actor Academy award, he lifted …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:54AMMonday, February 3, 2014
Women account for more than three-quarters of the UK’s arts sector workforce and more than half of all employees are aged 25-34, according to the results of a survey by the artsHub website…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:13AMThursday, January 30, 2014
Three people have been arrested by West Yorkshire Police and a major inquiry is underway following allegations of significant fraudulent activity at the Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:30AMWednesday, January 29, 2014
Jimmy Fay has been announced as the Lyric Theatre, Belfast’s first executive producer. The newly created role follows what theatre management have described as “an extensive review of op…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:30AMTuesday, January 28, 2014
A Northern Irish borough council has reversed its ban on the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s The Bible: the Complete Word of God (Abridged), allowing scheduled performances in Newtownabbey�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMFriday, January 24, 2014
A Northern Ireland theatre has cancelled performances of the Reduced Shakespeare Company’s latest production, The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) following protests by evangelic…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMThursday, January 23, 2014
Mark Wigglesworth is to succeed Edward Gardner as music director of English National Opera from September 2015. The move follows Gardner’s departure from the London Colisseum after more th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMThe Abbey Theatre in Dublin is failing to meet expectations that its productions are of “world class” standard, an independent report has concluded. The damning assessment was made by a …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:07AMWednesday, January 22, 2014
Alexandra Bastedo’s final screen appearance in 2008 in two episodes of the BBC’s perpetually grim soap opera EastEnders was the unlikeliest of swansongs for an actress who found fame as …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:00AMMonday, January 20, 2014
Although perpetually associated with two of the most dim-witted characters ever to grace a British television sitcom, Roger Lloyd Pack was an actor of immeasurably greater intelligence, vers…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:08PMNigerian-Irish playwright Bisi Adigun has been awarded €75,000 (£62,000) in Ireland’s High Court over claims that he had been defamed in an article in the Sunday Tribune newspaper in Se…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:19AMFriday, January 17, 2014
Jimmy Hardwick, the long-serving pianist at favourite London theatreland restaurant, Joe Allen in Covent Garden, has died after a short illness at the age of 88. After playing on the restaur…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:56AMThursday, January 16, 2014
Roger Lloyd Pack, who became a household name as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses and as Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley, has died aged 69. His death from pancreatic cancer on Wednesday...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:01AMWednesday, January 15, 2014
Richard Brett, widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential theatre engineers of his generation, has died at the age of 74. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012, his health ha…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:38PMTuesday, January 14, 2014
For more than two decades, Claire Grove was one of the most imaginative and insightful producers in the BBC’s radio drama department. Deftly balancing the popular and the serious, she was …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:09AMThursday, January 9, 2014
Suffolk Coastal District Council has been criticised for spending £30,000 on Felixstowe’s Spa Pavilion Theatre in the year since its withdrawal of funding forced the venue to close. A cou…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMTuesday, January 7, 2014
Limerick’s year-long programme as Ireland’s first national City of Culture has been thrown into disarray just days into its 2014 tenure with the loss of its chief executive, artistic dir…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:12AMWith an A-list hinterland of comic talent signed to his Off the Kerb agency that he promoted with a relentless, often ruthless, efficiency in countless television programmes through his Open…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:17AMThursday, January 2, 2014
Long-running musical The Lion King was the most successful show on Broadway in 2013, taking almost $97 million (£58.7 million) in ticket sales in its 16th year on the Great White Way. The a…
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