Thursday, June 29, 2017
With funding slashed over the past decade, Michael Quinn looks at the consequences for Northern Irish arts organisations, from companies feeling the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:00AMJill Martin’s place in theatre history was secured in 2001 when she became the only actor to appear in all three West
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 02:00AMWednesday, June 28, 2017
In an era before Australian soap operas became a seemingly permanent fixture on televisions worldwide, Lyn James found herself as the star
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:59AMMonday, June 26, 2017
Galway’s O’Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance has been voted Ireland’s favourite building in a poll conducted by the Royal Institute
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:34AMThursday, June 22, 2017
Plans have been approved by Dublin City Council to demolish the former Andrews Lane Theatre. The city-centre venue has been sold for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:39AMWednesday, June 21, 2017
The proportion of women writing new plays for Ireland’s stages has increased by just 2% in the past decade, claims a new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:48AMSophie Partridge was a dynamic performer, writer, broadcaster and political campaigner. Born with brittle bone syndrome, she proved as tireless as she was
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMNorthern Ireland’s arts organisations have entered their second decade of successive annual funding cuts with the announcement of further reductions of up
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:11AMTuesday, June 20, 2017
AR Gurney was one of the most prolific American playwrights of his generation, producing almost a play per year alongside two musicals,
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:50AMMonday, June 19, 2017
Ireland’s new Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has announced the creation of a Department of Culture “with a budget to match” as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:57AMWednesday, June 14, 2017
Helen Pringle, who has died from cancer at the age of 50, was a tireless advocate of theatre as a force for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMTuesday, June 13, 2017
With a voice that sounded like it had been knitted from homespun wool, Peter Sallis found fame late in life as the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:41AMFriday, June 9, 2017
The actor, playwright and political campaigner Sophie Partridge has died at the age of 48. Her death on June 5 was confirmed
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMThursday, June 8, 2017
The Irish theatres that receive the most public funding are the worst at achieving gender balance in their work, according to a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:51AMTuesday, June 6, 2017
When John Noakes joined the BBC’s flagship children’s programme Blue Peter in 1967, the Beatles were in their pomp and the sober
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:39AMRoy Barraclough’s television fame as theatrical agent-turned Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street, and as the affectedly haughty Cissie to
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:33AMThursday, May 25, 2017
As artistic director of Kneehigh in the decade to 2005 and founder in the same year of the Redruth, Cornwall-based WildWorks, Bill
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, May 19, 2017
Northern Ireland’s only dance degree course has closed as part of a wider reorganisation of Ulster University. The move follows an internal
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:21AMAs a script editor, producer and head of the BBC’s series and serials department, Michael Wearing was responsible for such era-defining programmes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMTuesday, May 16, 2017
Geoffrey Bayldon might well have found fame earlier than he did. In 1963 he was offered the role of the first Doctor
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:02AMThursday, May 11, 2017
Geoffrey Bayldon, best known as television’s Catweazle and the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge, has died aged 93. His death on May 10
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:09PM Belfast’s Lyric Theatre has announced the first four writers to participate in its inaugural New Playwrights Programme. Seamus Collins, Erica Murray, Vittoria
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:18AMWednesday, May 10, 2017
The director general of Ireland’s national broadcaster RTE has called for the creation of a €15 million (£12.6 million) development fund for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:24AMRarely out of work in a career that spanned seven decades, Moray Watson found his way into the West End soon after
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMA familiar face on television for more than 50 years, the actor Ann Beach, whose career included time at Theatre Royal Stratford
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 04:00AMFriday, May 5, 2017
A stalwart of Scottish theatre, Sean Scanlan found fame on television as Shug, the affected Anglocentric uncle to Gregor Fisher’s Glaswegian grotesque
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMMoving effortlessly between stage and screen, Christopher Morahan’s 60-year career earned him a reputation as a writer’s director. An often fierce figure
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:21AMThursday, April 27, 2017
Tributes have been paid to the Irish actor and campaigner for disability rights Donal Toolan following his death at the age of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:42PMAfter his mother died when he was two, Parv Bancil moved from his native Tanzania to London with his father. The experience
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMWednesday, April 26, 2017
Michael Bogdanov will be remembered as the director against whom the self-appointed morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse launched a venomous tirade in 1980
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:30AMThursday, April 13, 2017
Tim Pigott-Smith’s sudden death at the age of 70 has robbed British theatre of one of its most intelligent and intuitive actors.
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:58AM 
