Tuesday, November 20, 2012
Robert 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…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:28AMAs one half of the perpetually sparring Duckworths in Coronation Street, Bill Tarmey created one of primetime television’s most popular onscreen partnerships with Liz Dawn for more than th…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:07AMFriday, November 9, 2012
Actor Bill Tarmey, who played Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street for 31 years, has died at the age of 71. According to a statement released by his family, he passed away yesterday morning i…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMTuesday, November 6, 2012
AEG Live has been awarded the contract to operate live concerts in London’s Hyde Park following Live Nation’s decision to withdraw from the bidding process. The decision by the venue’s…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:19AMThursday, November 1, 2012
The opera singer Robert Poulton has been killed in a car crash in Sussex on October 30. He had been due to perform in Glyndebourne Opera’s touring production of Rusalka at the Theatre Roya…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:28AMTuesday, October 23, 2012
Ireland’s national theatre company, the Dublin-based Abbey Theatre, has announced a partnership with the National University of Ireland Galway to make its historic 109-year-old archive ava…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:08AMThursday, October 18, 2012
Belfast’s Titanic Studios has opened two new film and television production studios at a cost of £8.3 million. The new stages add an additional 42,000 sq ft to the existing 70,…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:16AMFriday, October 5, 2012
Promotion of the UK’s first City of Culture has been thrown into disarray after Derry City Council seized part-control of the company charged with running the year-long event. The council …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:22AMWednesday, September 26, 2012
Share trading in the Music Festival Group, the Vince Power-owned promoter of summer music festivals, has been suspended as the company prepares to enter administration.The post Vince Power&#…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PMShare trading in the Music Festival Group, the Vince Power-owned promoter of summer music festivals, has been suspended as the company prepares to enter administration.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:11AMMonday, September 24, 2012
Global entertainment, music and sports giant AEG is under threat of being broken up following billionaire owner Philip Anschutz's announcement that the conglomerate is for sale.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:46AMMonday, September 3, 2012
Comic Jimmy Tarbuck has led the tributes to Max Bygraves following the legendary entertainer's death at home in Australia at the age of 89.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:43AMThursday, August 30, 2012
Actor-turned-playwright Abbie Spallen is to succeed David Ireland as the Lyric Theatre Belfast's new writer-in-residence.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:57AMFriday, August 24, 2012
The Tony Award-winning American playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang has been announced as the recipient of theatre's richest prize, the biennial $200,000 Steinberg Distinguished Play…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:24AMTuesday, August 14, 2012
This year's Manchester Comedy Festival has been cancelled and the future of the 11-year-old event seems uncertain following the withdrawal of funding by Manchester City Council.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMFriday, August 3, 2012
Belfast's £18 million city-centre Metropolitan Arts Centre has announced an adaptation of Oliver Jeffers' The Incredible Book Eating Boy as part of its first autumn season.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:16AMThursday, July 26, 2012
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is to provide funding of £150,000 to help the region's performers and companies take their work to international audiences.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:07PMWednesday, July 25, 2012
Ireland's capital city is to be the focus of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, the first to be programmed by artistic director Willie White.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMThursday, July 12, 2012
Arts Council England is to provide £750,000 to support English arts companies wishing to collaborate with organisations in Derry/Londonderry during the city's tenure as the UK's first …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:37PMTuesday, June 19, 2012
The actor, director and writer Victor Spinetti has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:31AMMonday, June 11, 2012
The HMV Group has announced the £32 million sale of leading London concert and comedy venue, the Hammersmith Apollo, to Stage C, which is jointly owned by subsidiaries of the American …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:26AMFriday, June 1, 2012
New productions by Field Day Theatre Company and Hofesh Shechter have been announced as part of Derry/Londonderry's UK City of Culture celebrations in 2013.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:22AMThursday, May 24, 2012
The winners of the 33rd Arts & Business Awards "offer a blueprint to a new generation of engagement" between arts organisations and supporters from the business sector, claim organisers of t…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:25AMWednesday, May 23, 2012
Belfast's Lyric Theatre has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to tourism during its first year of operations in the newly announced Northern Ireland Tourism Awards.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:53AMMonday, May 21, 2012
Director Peter Hall, actor Laurence Olivier and playwright Harold Pinter are among the names included on a BBC Radio 4 list of figures who "have had a significant impact on lives in these is…
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:30AMWednesday, May 16, 2012
Sir Roy Shaw, secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain during one of its most turbulent periods, has died at the age of 93.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMMonday, May 14, 2012
Michael Ockwell has been announced as Dennis Hall's successor as chief executive at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:26AMThursday, May 10, 2012
Dublin's Abbey Theatre is to close for nine weeks during the summer following the discovery of asbestos in its main auditorium.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:19AMWednesday, May 9, 2012
A former finance director and head of IT at the Royal Academy of Music have been charged with stealing more than £630,00 between them in unrelated deceptions.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:18AMWednesday, May 2, 2012
Arts Council England spent more than £588 million of public money in support of the arts in 2010/11 - down from £625 million in 2009/10 - according to its newly published annual …
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMDublin's Focus Theatre has gone dark on the eve of its 50th anniversary in May 2013.
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