Monday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:35AMThursday, July 11, 2013
Actor Anna Wing, best known as EastEnders’ vinegar-tongued matriarch Lou Beale, has died at the age of 98. According to her agent, Wing passed away on July 7. A graduate of Croydon Drama S…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:53AMMonday, July 8, 2013
Kris Nelson has been announced as the new director of the annual Dublin Fringe Festival. A Montreal-based producer and curator, he replaces Rosie Goan who is departing after five years manag…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:05AMFriday, July 5, 2013
The Old Vic has reported a much improved year in 2012, turning in a loss of £120,000 compared to a deficit of almost £1.7 million in the year before. The improved figures came despite turn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:20AMThursday, July 4, 2013
Reports that the Ambassador Theatre Group was to be put up for sale by principal shareholder Exponent Private Equity have been denied by ATG. Claims that Exponent were planning to sell off A…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:07AMWednesday, July 3, 2013
A stalwart of concert hall and opera house – for which he amassed a repertoire of more than 100 roles – for much of the latter half of the last century, baritone Thomas Hemsley came...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMMonday, June 24, 2013
Ticketmaster, the world’s largest online ticket retailer, has announced further expansion in Europe with the launch of a branded wesbite platform in Austria. The move comes just days after…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:46AMNorthern Ireland’s culture minister Caral Ni Chuilin has been injured after being struck by a police land rover during a protest over a contentious Loyalist march in north Belfast. The inc…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:14AMWednesday, June 19, 2013
Just three years after moving to the UK in 1974, Richard LeParmentier found himself in the first Star Wars film, playing a fascist space admiral who makes the nearly fatal mistake of critici…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:17PMTall, slender with an aquiline nose, glinting eyes and a merry but menacing smile, Aubrey Woods was a natural and noticeable figure on stage and screen in a career that spanned five decades.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMMonday, June 10, 2013
To many of the fans who sustained a career that last year marked its 50th anniversary, Graham Walker was the linchpin of the Grumbleweeds, the comedy band that learned its trade on the North…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMEngagement with the arts and culture is to be included for the first time as one of the measures used by government to calculate the UK’s sense of well-being. The Office for National Stati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMFriday, June 7, 2013
The UK’s entertainment and media market is expected to be worth £65.5 billion by 2017 with digital revenues driving growth of more than a fifth, a new report by analysts PricewaterhouseCo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:22PMThursday, June 6, 2013
London’s Royal Albert Hall has reported a record year for business in 2012 with operating income growing 4.3% to £16.8 million to produce an operating surplus of £4.5 million. The grade …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMTuesday, June 4, 2013
It wasn’t just Steve Martland’s never-changing fashion sense – jeans, Dr Martens and flat-top haircut – that earned him the dubious nickname of “the bad boy of classical music”. …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:52AMMonday, June 3, 2013
Graham Walker, co-founder of comedy band The Grumbleweeds, has died at the age of 68. Originally a two-piece band (with co-founder Robin Colvill) offering comedy songs and impressions, The G…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMFriday, May 24, 2013
As the eternally disappointed, perpetually thwarted comedian Ted Bovis, Paul Shane was the grit in the oyster of Jimmy Perry and David Croft’s Hi-de-Hi, set in a provincial seaside holiday…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMWednesday, May 22, 2013
James Cameron, whose film credits include Titanic and Avatar, is to direct a worldwide broadcast of Swan Lake from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in what is being described as “the…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:52AMTuesday, May 21, 2013
Eddie Braben, the writer who provided comedy duo Morecambe and Wise with some of ther most famous sketches, has died at the age of 82. The Liverpool-born writer passed away earlier today (Ma…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:25AMMonday, May 20, 2013
A record-breaking annual spend of almost £7 billion on the National Lottery’s portfolio of games saw donations to the arts growing to £390 million in the year to the end of March. The 6.…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:56AMFriday, May 17, 2013
Paul Shane, who rose to fame as the holiday camp comedian Ted Bovis in Jimmy Croft and David Perry’s 1980s television comedy hit Hi-de-Hi! has died at the age of 72. The Rotherham-born min…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:27AMThursday, May 16, 2013
Spending by overseas tourists in the UK hit a record high of just over £19 billion in the year to the end of March, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMAn opera featuring a string quartet performing in four airborne helicopters, a dancing camel and 150 performers that was previously thought to be unstageable has received the opera and music…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:30AMWednesday, May 15, 2013
Private sector support for arts and cultural organisations in England increased by 7.6% in 2012 to £660.5 million, but regional organisations saw their support falling as London’s share o…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:43AMSean Caffrey was part of a generation of actors that came out of Northern Ireland in the 1960s to find prominence on British television. He made his small-screen debut in Boy in the Smoke in…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMTuesday, May 14, 2013
Spare Tyre Theatre Company and Streetwise Opera are among the winners of the 2013 Arts & Business Awards celebrating partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and the business…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00PMChannel 4 made a loss of £27 million in 2012 – its first in four years – despite exceeding its annual sales target of £1 billion for the second successive year. The “planned deficit�…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:29AMDermot McLaughlin, chief executive of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust in Dublin, has been suspended “with pay and without prejudice” following concerns about his role in offering €100,00…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:21AMMonday, May 13, 2013
An Irish Employment Appeals Tribunal has found against a director and company of actors who made a claim for lost earnings against Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre following the early closure of th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:58AMIf anyone working in British theatre over the past half-century could claim to have been a renaissance man, it was surely Patrick Garland, whose multifaceted life included spells as a poet, …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:01AMFriday, May 10, 2013
Digital Theatre, the company that provides filmed theatre and opera productions on demand, has signed a deal with YouTube enabling the video site to offer paid access to its content. The mov…
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