Friday, 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:23AMThursday, May 9, 2013
Richard Wakely, the former managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, has been announced as the new director of the Belfast Festival at Queen’s. Wakely brings with him to Northern Ire…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMFriday, May 3, 2013
A festival focusing on and for people aged 60 and over is to be launched in June by the Belfast-based multi-artform company Kaleidoscope, in a partnership with the city’s Waterfont Hall. T…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:14PMWednesday, May 1, 2013
Planned events in Derry-Londonderry’s City of Culture programme are under threat of cancellation following lower than expected income from sponsorship and ticket sales. The disappointing f…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:33AMTuesday, April 30, 2013
Four audience members have been injured in a pepper spray attack in Dublin’s Tivoli Theatre when a man jumped on stage and started using the chemical repellent without warning. The attack …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMFriday, April 26, 2013
The four-year-long UK-wide Cultural Olympiad marking London’s hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 attracted an audience of 43.4 million – 25.8 million outside of the capi…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:21AMFour in ten people think UK businesses have a duty to support the arts sector through corporate sponsorshop and more than a third say wealthy individuals should offer more financial support …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:06AMThursday, April 25, 2013
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has signed a new three-year sponsorship deal with Deuchars IPA that extends a partnership begun in 2010 to the end of the annual event’s 2015 season. The new …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMTuesday, April 23, 2013
Digital Theatre has created the first dedicated on-demand television channel providing access to filmed theatre productions in a partnership with telecoms provider TalkTalk. The Digital Thea…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMMonday, April 22, 2013
Circus Space, the UK’s national centre for circus arts, is to receive £600,000 over the next three years following a pledge of support by the American philanthropist Aileen Getty. The don…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:32AMWith a private fortune estimated at £825 million, Cameron Mackintosh is the highest-ranking creative talent listed in this year’s Sunday Times Rich List. Mackintosh added £100 million to…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:54AMTwo very different Irish-themed projects within a year of each other gave the character actor Milo O’Shea the breakthrough he had been hankering after for almost 30 years. As the cuckolded…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:47AMDirector Patrick Garland has died at the age of 78. A statement released by his wife, actress Alexandra Bastedo, said he died in Worthing Hospital on Saturday April 20, following a long illn…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AMTuesday, April 16, 2013
Norman Collier was a leading light in the generation of comics who learnt their trade on the often gruelling Northern club circuit and later found fame on television in the 1970s. More famil…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:55AMFriday, April 12, 2013
As a founding member of psychedelic pioneers Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers found himself ahead of his time and at odds with himself. Disenchanted with the limelight and despite the band’s succ…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMThursday, April 11, 2013
Bass player Rick Huxley co-founded the Dave Clark Five in 1958 and remained with them until they disbanded 12 years later. At their peak, the group had enough pop clout to knock the Beatles …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:38AMWednesday, April 10, 2013
What a difference a year makes. Rewind to the start of 2012 and the fear of what lay ahead – the double whammy of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic and Paralympic Games and their...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:59AMMonday, April 8, 2013
Few are the actors whose passing is marked by the dimming of lights in the West End. Richard Griffiths was one of those, the tribute placing him in a select pantheon whose numbers include Ol…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:03PMWednesday, April 3, 2013
Frank Thornton’s ability to turn stiff-backed pomposity to exquisite comic effect gave him an enviable profile in two long-running television comedies that kept him in public view for half…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:57AMActor Milo O’Shea has died in New York after a short illness at the age of 86. Early success on stage in his native Dublin followed him to the UK where he made a notable...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMSunday, March 31, 2013
Simon Callow talks to Michael Quinn about the thrill of getting to the core of such an important figure in The Man Jesus and why he is excited to return to the city of Belfast where he gave …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12AMFriday, March 29, 2013
Richard Griffiths, winner of Olivier and Tony awards and star of stage hit The History Boys, has died at the age of 65. His death followed complications arising from heart surgery at the Uni…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:33AMWednesday, March 27, 2013
Responsible for scripting some of the most intelligent Hollywood films of the past four decades, Alan Sharp’s writing career began on British television in 1963 with Funny Noises with Thei…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:30AMMonday, March 25, 2013
Actor Clive Mantle has had a part of an ear bitten off in an attack in Newcastle in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident occurred at 4.30am in a Travelodge hotel in the...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:18AMFriday, March 22, 2013
Variety was a defining characteristic of a career that took Robin Sachs from winning a prize for diction at RADA to fame on cult American television shows Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Sla…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMWednesday, March 20, 2013
Kenny Ball was in the vanguard of the trad jazz boom that swept through Britain in the early 1960s. Together with Chris Barber and Acker Bilk, he forged a new sound and profile for jazz...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:40AMMonday, March 18, 2013
Frank Thornton, best known as Captain Peacock in the long-runnng televison comedy Are You Being Served?, has died at the age of 92. A statement issued by his agent said that he passed away a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMFriday, March 15, 2013
Bob Godfrey received his first Academy award nomination for his 1972 short Kama Sutra Rides Again, based on the ancient Sanskrit sex manual. Sex was a theme he returned to in 1980 with Dream…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:45AMTuesday, March 12, 2013
Raymond Cusick was the cause of countless nightmares for generations of children he never met. In 1963, for the first series of what was to become a perennial teatime television favourite, h…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMJohn Kerr was 23 when he won a Tony award for his performance as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson’s Tea and Sympathy. It was his second gong in as many years, winning...
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMWednesday, March 6, 2013
Belfast City Council is to increase its spending on the arts by 27% after agreeing a £4.1 million funding package for more than 50 companies and venues as part of a new three-year support p…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:01AM 
