Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Tributes have been paid to the actor Larrington Walker, who has died aged 70. Lenny Henry, who co-starred with the Jamaican-born Walker
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Playwright Ann Jellicoe, a prominent female voice in the generation dominated by “angry young men” who transformed British theatre in the late
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMPlaywright Bernard Pomerance, author of the Tony award-winning The Elephant Man, has died at the age of 76. His death on August
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Hailed by the News of the World as “the face of 1967” and favourably likened to his compatriot Richard Burton, Hywel Bennett
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Thomas Meehan, winner of three Tony awards for the books to Annie, The Producers and Hairspray, has died at the age of
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No entertainer stamped his personality on prime-time television with such authoritative energy and charismatic zeal as Bruce Forsyth. In every decade from
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:53AMHomePlace in Bellaghy, where the lauded poet is buried, is about to celebrate its first birthday. Michael Quinn reveals how the former fortified
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Born into a theatrical family – her father was the actor Jack Watling, her mother Patricia Hicks – Deborah Watling will be
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Tributes have been paid to the Tony award-winning performer Barbara Cook, who has died at the age of 89. A regular on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMThe theatre and opera director Lee Blakeley has died at the age of 45. His death on August 5 of a heart
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Robert Hardy’s success on film and television overshadowed a theatrical career that never quite realised the potential his early stage appearances had
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Robert Hardy, best known for television’s All Creatures Great and Small and his portrayals of Winston Churchill, has died at the age
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The future of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland could be under threat if a review of arm’s-length bodies by the region’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:04AMA prolific playwright who inherited Arthur Miller’s mantle as the leading American playwright of his generation, Sam Shepard drilled into the dark
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AMMonday, July 31, 2017
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and a major figure in contemporary American theatre, has died at the age of 73. His
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:11PMWednesday, July 26, 2017
New plays by Stacey Gregg, Sebastian Barry and Belinda McKeon are to feature in the 60th Dublin Theatre Festival alongside playwright Enda
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMThere weren’t many areas of the arts and broadcasting in Scotland that Richard Findlay wasn’t involved with or that didn’t benefit from
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Four major UK and Irish theatre premieres have been announced as headline events in this year’s Belfast International Arts Festival. The festival’s
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An agent operating in Northern Ireland has been banned from the business for 10 years, following investigations into complaints from a number
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:05PMWednesday, July 19, 2017
Peter Austin was one of theatre’s unsung backroom stars as manager of West End venue the Prince Edward Theatre and administrator of Littlestar,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:51AMDavid Dean created costume designs for some of the greatest choreographers and directors of the last half-century, held important positions with the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMAt just 5ft 2in tall and weighing 20 stone, for a time in the 1970s Carol Lee Scott advertised herself in The
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:44AMIn leading teaching posts with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:39AMFor adults of a certain age, Brian Cant was the personification of children’s television in an era long before the thin gruel
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Migration, trade and climate change all featured on the agenda of this year’s Theater Der Welt. Michael Quinn finds out how it
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMFunding of the arts in Ireland is to be revamped by new guidelines that promise to broaden access and provide greater stability
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Reviewing a Manchester University student performance of Christopher Marlowe’s Edward II in 1964, The Stage singled out Knight Mantell’s Mortimer as “a
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A maverick figure who used theatre and poetry to engage with emerging political and social concerns, Heathcote Williams was often anarchically irreverent
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:18AMTuesday, July 4, 2017
Two of Ireland’s leading opera companies are to merge to form a new national company, in a move described as “a major
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:32PMThe playwright, poet and political activist Heathcote Williams has died at the age of 75. He had been ill for some time
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With funding slashed over the past decade, Michael Quinn looks at the consequences for Northern Irish arts organisations, from companies feeling the
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