Tuesday, May 29, 2018
Peter Byrne’s early ambition was to be a heavyweight tragic actor but, as he told The Stage: “I realised I was too
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In a generation of Irish playwrights who achieved international recognition by chronicling a country in rapid, often convulsive, transition from centuries-old entrenchment
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With a career in the military, the diplomatic service, as deputy controller of the National Film Theatre and as a novelist behind
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In later years, Edith MacArthur was regarded as the grande dame of Scottish theatre. It was a position she also enjoyed with
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Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, Pamela Sholto demonstrated an early ability in dance. She studied ballet with the Russian prima ballerina Lydia Lopokova
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:00PMBy the time he had left school, John Stride had already played Macbeth, Antony and Hamlet. His early promise – spotted at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:36AMTuesday, May 1, 2018
Kevin Colson was a star in his native Australia before he came to London in the mid-1960s. He left behind a burgeoning
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:00PMAlex Beckett will be best remembered as the inept PR executive Barney in two biting BBC satires on institutional incompetence, Twenty Twelve,
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Neil Shand was one of the most successful comedy writers of the past half-century, the joker of choice for successive generations of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMAs one of the co-founders of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and its subsequent incarnation as the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, north London,
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When Dennis ‘Slim’ Ramsden announced his retirement (prematurely, as it proved) in 2001, The Stage hailed him as “one of the West
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Arts organisations in Northern Ireland have been left reeling by new funding cuts that will see almost half of the province’s regularly-funded
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By the age of nine, Bill Maynard was earning more than his father performing in clubs and on the variety circuit. Before
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In the largely unsung role of costume supervisor, Stephanie Arditti – who described her job as “getting the designs off the paper,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:00AMOriginally trained as a dancer, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dance aged nine and making her professional debut at
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMRegarding himself as a “jobbing actor”, John Hart Dyke was seldom out of work in a long career in which he forged
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A prank birthday present of ballet lessons led Scott Ambler into a career in which he forged a memorable partnership with choreographer
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A familiar face on television for more than three decades, Carmel McSharry was an actor of considerable charm and capability with a
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Michael Green was one of the great, if now largely overlooked, English humorists whose The Art of Coarse Acting proved a wickedly
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:27PMJo Beddoe was an unsung champion of regional theatre who steered Scotland’s 7:84, Liverpool’s Everyman and Playhouse theatres and London’s Battersea Arts
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMMonday, March 12, 2018
Ken Dodd became notorious for allowing his one-man shows to regularly spill over into the early hours of the morning. Audiences –
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:20PMComedian and entertainer Ken Dodd has died at the age of 90. His death on March 11 was confirmed by his publicist,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:17AMWednesday, March 7, 2018
Royce Ullah’s sole brush with fame came as Salim in AR Rahman’s Bombay Dreams, the lavish Bollywood-inspired musical with a book by
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMEmma Chambers made much of characters who seemed to have, in the nicest possible way, a slender grasp of reality. As the
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Belfast’s Lyric Theatre and Prime Cut Productions were the big winners at this year’s Irish Theatre Awards, winning four categories including best
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Actor-turned-agent Derek Keller – affectionately known as ‘Bo’ – was a mainstay of Brighton’s theatre scene, where the offices of his agency
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John Blackmore had something of the Midas touch about him, rescuing several leading regional theatres from the brink of closure and restoring
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:43AMKenneth Haigh was the original ‘angry young man’. As the recalcitrant Jimmy Porter in John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger at the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMA fortnight before former contributor to The Stage John G Temple became Coronation Street’s 21st producer in March 1985, the BBC launched
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMTuesday, February 20, 2018
John Blackmore, who led flagship regional theatres in Manchester, Bolton, Newcastle, Leicester and Lancaster, has died at the age of 77. His
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A review into claims of inappropriate behaviour and abuse of power by former Gate Theatre boss Michael Colgan has found the allegations
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