Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Peter 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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A new report by Northern Ireland’s Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure has called for greater spending on the arts from other
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In one of her last theatre designs – a revival of The Tempest co-produced by Improbable, Northern Stage and Oxford Playhouse in
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A Brechtian at heart, William Gaskill made eloquent platforms for change of the Royal Court Theatre, London, and the Joint Stock Theatre
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Stage and screen actor Frank Finlay has died at the age of 89. His death at home on January 30 was announced
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 03:14PMWith a powerful, saturnine presence on stage and steady, devouring eyes that hinted, in close-up, at darker passions beneath, Frank Finlay’s career
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With a hypnotically lugubrious voice that sounded like caramel drenched in molasses and hinted at darker, more dangerous depths, Alan Rickman became
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West End star Fra Fee has launched a series of workshops that will be led by names including Ciaran Hinds and Jenna
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As a director (and latterly a producer), Don Leaver left his mark on some of the most iconic drama and comedy series
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:03PMAt his peak in the 1970s, Robert Stigwood was the impresario with the Midas touch, as one project after another in the
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:31PMBryony Brind was just 21 when she experienced that most quintessential of theatrical fables coming true: becoming an overnight star. Having joined
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Despite appearances with the Royal Shakespeare Company, the Royal Court and in the West End, Nicholas Smith will be best remembered as
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Nick Weir is a man on a mission. “I want the cruise industry to be the home of the best entertainment on
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Director Luc Bondy was born into an artistic family: his mother a dancer manque, his father a literary editor and his grandfather
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As the prim, prudish, pontificating spinster Edna Birch in television’s Emmerdale, Shirley Stelfox policed the moral health of the fictional Yorkshire village
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Singer-songwriter Duke Special has been announced as artist-in-residence for the Lyric Theatre, Belfast. Special will write a musical version of Mark Twain’s
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Robert Chetwyn was one of the most gifted directors of his generation, with a range that encompassed high farce, contemporary tragedy and
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Shirley Stelfox, familiar to millions of television viewers as sharp-tongued spinster Edna Birch in ITV’s Emmerdale, has died aged 74. Her death
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 01:20PMAnthony Valentine all but cornered the market in debonair but dangerous villains on television for a large part of the 1960s and
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Actor Nicholas Smith, best known as the bumptious store manager Mr Rumbold in television’s Are You Being Served?, has died at the
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Actor Anthony Valentine, who found fame in television dramas Colditz and Raffles, has died at the age of 76. His death on
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Although Keith Michell became indelibly associated with the character of Henry VIII (whom he played on stage, television and film), he was
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As an admired voice coach and dialect teacher, Julia Wilson-Dickson worked with some of the most famous actors of her generation on
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:46PMAmong many firsts in a career that spanned three continents and six decades, Saeed Jaffrey could claim to be the first Asian
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Although the limelight was kinder to his older brother, Donald, Leon Sinden enjoyed a career of comparable length, flourishing particularly in Scotland,
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If the celebrity status enjoyed by some of his peers passed Albert Hunt by, he nonetheless remained at the centre of a
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 12:36PMLights in theatre marquees on Broadway are to be dimmed in memory of Irish playwright Brian Friel next month. The playwright was
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British television had never before seen a character like Alf Garnett when he first appeared in a one-off BBC Comedy Playhouse in
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Shadow culture minister Michael Dugher has criticised the current government’s approach to the arts and culture as “completely counterproductive”. The comments came
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When, after more than a decade playing the diffident, decidedly unconfrontational wages clerk and lay preacher Ernie Bishop in Coronation Street, Stephen
SOURCE: The Stage Registration at 10:15AMPetrus Bertschinger trained in stage and production management at the Central School of Speech and Drama and after graduating in 1984 quickly
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