Of all the celebrations marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death last year, for many of a certain age none will have
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMDespite its setting in Nazi-occupied France and gleeful revelling in wartime irreverence, double entendres, homophobia and racial caricatures, David Croft and Jeremy
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:23AMA self-styled ‘creative animateur’, Michel Julian spent his life committed to advocating, enthusing and enabling involvement in theatre. Born in Bedford in
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:26AMPlaywright Rosemary Jenkinson has been appointed artist-in-residence at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast. The writer, who was born in Belfast, succeeds composer
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:16AMActor Gorden Kaye, best known as hapless cafe owner Rene in ’Allo ’Allo!, has died aged 75. Although he found fame on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:50PMBorn into a wealthy banking family, well connected in business and a practising professor of philosophy, Calvin Rand was also one of
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:23AMBorn into a performing family – his parents were both actors and his uncle was Wilfrid Lawson – Bernard Fox made his
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:30AMThe extra second added to clocks as 2016 turned into 2017 served only to heighten expectations in Hull of what the new
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 05:00AMFor a generation of filmgoers, Deddie Davies will be forever remembered as Mrs Perks, wife of Bernard Cribbins’ station porter, in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:10AMLiz Smith’s rise to stardom was all the more remarkable for it coming so late – she was nearly 50 when Mike
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:55AMPlaywright Anne Devlin and dancer Oona Doherty have been announced as recipients of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland’s highest accolade, worth
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:20AMAlthough he appeared in only three episodes of the long-running prison television sitcom Porridge, it was as the menacing convict Harry Grout
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMIn a career spanning nearly 50 years, and during which he seldom seemed to be out of work, Bernard Gallagher was a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMBorn in Cardiff and a graduate of the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama, Jackie Skarvellis was a committed champion, as
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:00AMPaying tribute to Andrew Sachs, his Fawlty Towers co-star John Cleese described him as “a truly great farceur”. As the hapless Spanish
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:47AMReviewing a revival of his play Alterations at Theatre Royal Stratford East in 1986, the then editor of The Stage Peter Hepple
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:35AMTheatre and opera director Walter Sutcliffe has been announced as the new artistic director of Northern Ireland Opera. Sutcliffe, a former staff
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:02PMActor Peter Vaughan, who found fame as menacing convict Harry Grout in Porridge, has died at the age of 93. His death
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:08AMAndrew Sachs, best known for his role as the hapless Spanish waiter Manuel in television’s Fawlty Towers, has died at the age
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 06:39AMAs stage manager for leading venues in the regions and London, Bill Hetterley was well placed to see a succession of variety
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:00AMOften described as Ireland’s Chekhov, William Trevor’s reputation far exceeded his own modest description of himself as a “short-story writer who likes
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 09:09AMFor more than 40 years, Pierre Picton was one of the most popular circus performers in Britain. As Pierre the Clown, he
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:00AMIn the 1970s, Margaret Ashcroft secured her place in television history by becoming the first female actor to simultaneously have leading roles
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:12AMFor 20 years until his retirement earlier this year, Richard Anthony Baker brought a wealth of experience, unmatched authority and boundless passion
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:52AMSeldom, it seemed, out of work, John Carson was long one of the most familiar faces and voices on British television and
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 07:46AMTogether with David Croft, Jimmy Perry helped define British television comedy for a quarter of a century. The pair’s first hit, Dad’s
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:00AMColin George’s decision to champion a thrust stage in Sheffield’s new Crucible Theatre in 1971 was one of the most controversial theatre
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 08:23AMOver the course of 23 years on the cobbled stones of Coronation Street, Jean Alexander transformed Hilda Ogden, the skivvy with a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:10PMOne of the most prolific directors of his generation, Howard Davies’ name attached to a project offered audiences a guarantee that a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:16PMThe long-serving, seemingly inexhaustible compere and host of The Stage’s Showcall Showcases – a key talent-scouting event for the light entertainment industry
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:25PMHoward Davies, a former associate director with the National Theatre, Royal Shakespeare Company and Almeida Theatre, has died at the age of
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