Wednesday, 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 11:01AMTuesday, March 5, 2013
For a generation of television viewers, Derek Batey is indelibly inked into their memories as the convivial host of the soft-centred marriage quiz Mr and Mrs. Sporting a sculpted blond bouff…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:25PMThursday, February 28, 2013
Gerry Hambling’s death the day after film director Alan Parker received his BAFTA fellowship was a poignant coda to a career worthy of the man’s finesse in sculpting films that offered a…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:03AMWednesday, February 27, 2013
Gavin Wallace played several crucial roles over three decades in supporting and raising the profile of contemporary Scottish writers, most significantly as the head of literature in the Scot…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:02AMTuesday, February 26, 2013
Eamon de Buitlear was a double pioneer in his native Ireland, establishing himself in the 1950s as a musician in the vanguard of the rediscovery of Irish traditional music, and, in the follo…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:23PMBilled as the ‘Champagne Soprano’, Lizbeth Webb managed the transition from wartime radio star and dance-band vocalist to the West End with all the sparkling elegance her sobriquet sugge…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:20AMMonday, February 25, 2013
Productions of plays by Tom Murphy have won five of the 13 categories in this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, with Druid Theatre Company’s career-spanning trilogy – Conversati…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:54AMThursday, February 21, 2013
Protests against the Royal Shakespeare Company’s renewed partnership with energy giant BP are to continue, with organisers the Reclaim Shakespeare Company launching a public petition calli…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:55AMTuesday, February 19, 2013
Energy giant BP has been announced as the project partner for the Royal Shakespeare Company’s £5 ticket scheme for 16-25-year-olds. The partnership renews the relationship between the two…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:17AMThursday, February 14, 2013
Details of a new awards initiative for opera have been announced, with the inaugural prize-giving ceremony to be held in London on April 22. The International Opera Awards have been conceive…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:41AMLesley Fitz-Simons was a prominent face on daytime television during her 20-year, 118-episode residency as the melodrama-afflicted Sheila Ramsay in STV’s long-running serial Take the High …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:19AMThursday, February 7, 2013
Arts Council England and national tourist board VisitEngland have announced a new partnership aimed at boosting cultural tourism. The three-year arrangement will see the two organisations co…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:12AMMonday, February 4, 2013
Peter Mountain’s early musical career was fraught with challenges that required determination and courage as well as talent. Born into a musical family, he secured a scholarship to the Roy…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMFriday, February 1, 2013
With a lifetime spent working for the BBC and an impeccable track record in current affairs, Alasdair Milne was the first producer to be appointed as the Corporation’s director general in …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:39AMWednesday, January 30, 2013
Arts and cultural organisations within the City of London, the capital’s financial and business centre, generated £225 million of net value to the Square Mile in 2011/12 and supported mor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:05AMMonday, January 28, 2013
BBC television and radio shows have triumphed in a public vote to find the best comedy programmes of 2012 organised by website comedy.co.uk. In all, the BBC lifted 12 of the 14 available awa…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:39PMThursday, January 24, 2013
Belfast’s Lyric Theatre is to present three world premieres and see the return of Simon Callow to the city where he began his acting career in its newly announced spring/summer season prog…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMWednesday, January 23, 2013
A former Welsh National Opera principal oboist has been awarded £73,000 compensation by an industrial tribunal which found he had been unfairly dismissed by the company after a long-running…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:48AMTuesday, January 22, 2013
The submission process to find the UK’s second City of Culture in 2017 has been launched today by arts minister Ed Vaizey. The announcement comes just days after Derry-Londonderry official…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:22AMMonday, January 21, 2013
Live theatre online rental and downloads distributor Digital Theatre has secured £750,000 investment from the Ingenious Ventures Media Opportunities Fund, the private equity division operat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:42AMThursday, January 17, 2013
John Carol Case’s contribution to English vocal music over the past half-century and more extended well beyond the 21 years he sang in the Bach Choir’s annual performance of the St Matth…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:13AMMonday, January 14, 2013
As the larger than life head of Scotland’s oldest actors’ agency, Pat Lovett acquired a deserved reputation as a straight-talking champion and protector of actors and their interests to …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:12PMFew British composers ranged so widely or so freely across generic boundaries as Richard Rodney Bennett. Equally adept and at home in the concert hall, cinema, on television and in the cabar…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:11AMThursday, December 20, 2012
Six leading benefactors of the arts have been awarded the Prince of Wales’ Medal for Arts Philanthropy in a ceremony in London today. Launched in 2008, the medals recognise individuals who…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMMonday, December 17, 2012
A new report on the use of digital technology to boost fundraising and encourage philanthropy in the arts sector has been published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Democratis…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:47PMMonday, December 10, 2012
The number of philanthropic donations to charitable causes worth £1 million or more reached their highest level in five years during 2010/11, although their overall value has fallen, accor…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:04AMFriday, December 7, 2012
In 1974, John Hefin created the drama Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley) with the playwright Gwenlyn Parry. Originally broadcast on BBC Wales and subsequently on S4C, almost four decades lat…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:19AMThursday, December 6, 2012
The UK’s film and television industries are to benefit from a new £6 million investment in training announced by chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne in yesterday’s Autumn Stateme…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:19AMThursday, November 29, 2012
Theatres in London’s West End are set to benefit from a new coach parking scheme introduced by Westminster City Council. Space for 24 new coach bays have been created in Kingsway within me…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:05AMTuesday, November 20, 2012
The son and grandson
of comics, Clive Dunn was to find fame himself in comedy in the unlikely guise of a doddering veteran of the Sudan and the Great War turned butcher who patriotically …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:49AMRobert Poulton’s standing as a stalwart of the contemporary British opera scene acknowledged only his profile as one of the most popular and dependable singers of his generation. The descr…
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