Friday, October 25, 2013
A £4 million concert space built to house concerts during Derry-Londonderry’s City of Culture celebrations is to be demolished in January at a cost of nearly £450,000. The decision to cl…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMThursday, October 24, 2013
Plans have been revealed for a new £12 million Performing Arts and Technology Innovation Centre in Northern Ireland. Funded by the Department for Employment and Learning, the 3,650 square m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:38AMMonday, October 21, 2013
The first British production of a new musical based on the hit 1970s television show Happy Days has launched an appeal for £250,000 from private investors through crowdfunding platform Seed…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:32AMThe body managing Derry-Londonderry’s City of Culture programme has been rocked by a third resignation from its governing board in less than a month. Ana Leddy, a former head of radio for …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMThursday, October 17, 2013
Funding for Ireland’s arts sector has been cut by 7% in the country’s newly-announced Budget for 2014. The higher-than-inflation fall marks the sixth successive year of cuts in arts fund…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMWednesday, October 9, 2013
Hailed by Ireland’s minister for arts Jimmy Deenihan as “the pre-eminent stage actress of her generation and beloved of theatre audiences”, Susan Fitzgerald’s long association with D…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:54PMMonday, October 7, 2013
Few broadcasters straddled the worlds of pop music and politics with the same convivial ease, elegance and apparent effortlessness that distinguished the near 60-year career on radio and tel…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:22AMTuesday, October 1, 2013
Best known for his eminently singable compositions for church choirs, Peter Aston was also a much-admired conductor, teacher and musicologist, writing widely on music from the 16th to the 19…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMMonday, September 30, 2013
The son of slot machine inventor William Bryan, George Bryan developed Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, from a dilapidated military training base built on the site of the former home of prime m…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMWednesday, September 25, 2013
An enthusiastic amateur actor with the Dumbarton People’s Theatre, Robert Trotter made the transition on to the professional stage via national service in the Royal Navy and teaching, even…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:44PMMembers of the cast and crew of a Northern Irish theatre company were arrested at a Belfast airport earlier this week following the discovery of live ammunition in their luggage. Twelve bull…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:18PMThursday, September 19, 2013
Theatre was the third most popular attraction for audiences in Northern Ireland over the past year according to figures newly released by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. The ann…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:33AMAs principal bass with English National Opera for a decade and a half following his 1980 debut in Aida, Richard Angas was a popular and potent force on the stage of the London Coliseum. Duri…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:01AMWednesday, September 18, 2013
Originally an organ student at Ely Cathedral and subsequently a choral scholar at King’s College, Cambridge, John Whitworth was a pioneering British countertenor at the centre of the re-em…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMThe Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council have partnered to launch a new three-year funding scheme worth £900,000 aimed at supporting collaborations between cultural org…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:08AMSunday, September 8, 2013
Robert Robson, artistic director of the Lowry arts centre in Salford, died suddenly on Friday (September 6) the age of 58. A former artistic director of Cumbernauld Theatre, director of Glas…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:11PMFriday, September 6, 2013
David Frost was 24 when he found fame in 1962 as the host of television’s pioneering satirical review programme That Was The Week That Was. Impeccably calm and confident in front of a came…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:14AMTuesday, September 3, 2013
As the cantankerous Cockney matriarch Lou Beale in EastEnders, Anna Wing stamped a dour authenticity on a programme that began with the discovery of a dead body and rarely allowed itself to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:54AMFriday, August 30, 2013
Nobel laureate poet and playwright Seamus Heaney died this morning at the age of 74. Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin at 7.30am shortly before he was due to undergo an operation…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:01AMTuesday, August 27, 2013
Actor and director Gerard Murphy has died from prostate cancer at the age of 52. His agent Lynda Ronan said he died at home yesterday after “battling courageously with cancer for two and a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMFriday, August 23, 2013
David Howard’s later behind-the-scenes career eclipsed onstage achievements that included admired solo roles in a seven-year spell – at the direct invitation of Ninette de Valois – wit…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:13PMThursday, August 22, 2013
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra has avoided closure and the cancellation of its 2013/14 season after a public appeal for funds led to pledges of more than £72,000 in less than two weeks…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMWednesday, August 21, 2013
The bass singer Richard Angas, best known for his frequent appearances in the title role of Jonathan Miller’s much-revived production of The Mikado for English National Opera, has died age…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMTuesday, August 20, 2013
German ticketing giant CTS Eventim, Europe’s leading online and call-centre entertainment ticket retailer, saw group revenues increase by 21.6% to €312.3 million (£266.8 million) in the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:45AMForeign visitor numbers and the amount they spent in the UK reached their highest levels in five years during the first six months of 2013, according to new figures released by the Office fo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMThursday, August 8, 2013
A leading light in Scotland’s thriving amateur choir scene, Jean Reid Graham was herself an admired soprano whose stewardship of the West Dumbartonshire-based Dalvait Singers spanned four …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMWednesday, August 7, 2013
Mel Smith found fame as the deadpan, jug-faced straight man to Rowan Atkinson, Gryff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson in the now classic Not the Nine O’Clock News. He cemented his place in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:34AMTuesday, August 6, 2013
Glyndebourne Festival Opera saw box office income rise to record levels in 2012 with almost 96% of all available seats sold generating £15.5 million. The figure was equivalent to nearly two…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:16AMTuesday, July 30, 2013
ITV saw group revenues rise by 2% to £1.3 billion in the first six months of 2013, as the commercial broadcaster’s fortunes continued to improve under chief executive Adam Crozier. The im…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:06AMTuesday, July 16, 2013
The BBC’s commercial division, BBC Worldwide, returned substantially less money to the Corporation in 2012/13 than in the previous year despite seeing sales increase 2.8% to £1.1 billion.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMMonday, July 15, 2013
The second youngest of six sisters, five of whom found fame towards the end of the 1970s as the unabashedly middle-of-the-road pop act the Nolans, Bernie Nolan was also the second to leave t…
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