Wednesday, June 29, 2016
As general administrator of the National Theatre in the second half of the 1970s, Peter Stevens played a crucial behind-the-scenes role in
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Belfast International Arts Festival has suffered a second major funding blow, after the Ulster Bank announced it was to end its role
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Theatre producer Michael Salmon has been sentenced to 18 months in jail after pleading guilty to four counts of fraud totalling nearly
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As head of music for the Royal Shakespeare Company for 37 years, Guy Woolfenden was a prolific and highly influential composer who
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As the creator of a string of zeitgeist-grabbing sitcoms dealing with class, family, feminism and Liverpool, Carla Lane was one of the
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Michael Colgan is to step down as artistic director of Dublin’s Gate Theatre after more than 30 years in the role. The
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In an article marking Peter Shaffer’s knighthood in 2007, the actor Simon Callow (who had created the role of Mozart in his
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Petra Davies, who has died at the age of 85, was a familiar face on television for more than four decades. She
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For a generation of theatregoers, the appearances of Japanese director Yukio Ninagawa’s visually spellbinding amalgams of East and West brought an exotic
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As a director, producer and head of BBC television comedy from 1983-90, Gareth Gwenlan demonstrated a Midas touch on a string of
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Best known as the rebel leader Roj Blake in Terry Nation’s cult sci-fi series Blakes 7, Gareth Thomas was a seasoned television
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Although he emerged as part of a generation of playwrights who collectively acquired the epithet of ‘angry young men’, Arnold Wesker’s voice
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It was a mark of the affection in which Ronnie Corbett was held as one of the best-loved entertainers of the last
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Arts organisations in Northern Ireland have been warned of new funding cuts ahead of a planned 5.7% reduction to the Arts Council
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Shakespeare’s Globe has reported record income of £23 million in 2015, and has claimed audience numbers at its South Bank home account
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Just 9% of the £34.3 million awarded by Arts Council England’s Strategic Touring Programme over the past five years went to London
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Together with his wife and on-stage assistant, “the lovely Debbie McGee”, Paul Daniels dominated television light entertainment schedules in the 1980s. He
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:26AMMagician Paul Daniels, one of television’s biggest stars in the 1980s, has died aged 77. His death was confirmed by his son
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Michael White’s propensity for gambling made him a natural-born producer even if it also led, in time, to the bankruptcy court. White’s
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The composer Peter Maxwell Davies, a former master of the Queen’s music, has died at the age of 81. His death earlier
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Druid Theatre Company has won a record five prizes in this year’s Irish Times Theatre Awards. The company won its awards for
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:16PMMichael White, one of the most charismatic theatre figures of the last half-century and producer of more than 100 shows including Oh!
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As the creator of Coronation Street, Tony Warren transformed television drama and established the template for countless successors. His achievement was all
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:26PMLouise Plowright was managing a shoe shop when, aged 28, she decided to become an actor and trained as a mature student
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As the foul-mouthed, hygienically challenged Father Jack in the hit 1990s television comedy Father Ted, Frank Kelly found a role that came
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Coronation Street creator Tony Warren has died at the age of 79. His death on March 1 was announced this morning on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:18PMAs a much-loved and respected teacher and director at the Central School of Speech and Drama for nearly 20 years, John Roberts
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Playwright Samuel Beckett, prima ballerina Margot Fonteyn and comedian Tommy Cooper are to be featured on commemorative blue plaques, in a raft
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Belfast’s Lyric Theatre is to mark the centenaries of the Battle of the Somme and the Easter Rising in Dublin in a season
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As artistic director of London’s Westminster Theatre from 1975-90 and a prominent writer of several productions there, Hugh Steadman Williams played a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 11:06AMPeter Wood was part of the generation of Oxbridge-graduate directors who transformed British theatre in the 1960s. Equally at home with classical
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