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Back from the dead: The animatronic comeback
Animatronics may have been overtaken by CGI in films, but it’s making a comeback in live shows, explains Sonny Tilders, dinosaur creator and director of Global Creatures
Chit Chat: Funeral chic with a twist
On to a very different type of grand dame of the stage - last week the passing of Danny La Rue was marked with a private funeral in north west London to celebrate the life of the late drag star. And, it would appear, female impersonators have their very own way of paying their last respects.
TV review
It is possible to have too much macabre weirdness in one programme.
Radio review - drama
John Barrowman gives every sign of having the kind of Lycra personality that expands to fit the space available. So I expected him, as top bod in the Cardiff-based extraterrestrial unit, to take centre stage in Torchwood: Asylum, to inhabit the role, to be all flashing eyes and teeth (despite this being radio), to make it Tiger Bay meets Sunday Night at the London Palladium.
Chit Chat: The Jackson distraction
The other notable passing of the last few weeks - well, probably the decade, really - has, of course, been Michael Jackson.
Chit Chat: Complaints when Judi speaks rudely
Tabard was amused to read recent reports that “almost every time” Dame Judi Dench swears on film, the British Board of Film Classification receives complaints.
Memories of Michael
Michael Jackson played an unprecedented seven sell-out concerts at Wembley Stadium on The Bad Tour in summer 1988, putting him in the Guinness Book of Records.
Don’t rely on a cunning stunt
Using shock tactics at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe is less likely to garner publicity in this desensitised media age, argues PR guru Mark Borkowski
Spiro’s inspired roles
Currently starring as Beatrice in Much Ado About Nothing in Regent’s Park, Samantha Spiro talks to Nick Smurthwaite about the varied roles she has performed over her career, from impersonating Barbara Windsor to playing Fanny Brice in the musical Funny Girl
Experiencing theatres
A K Bennett-Hunter picks some moments from the recent Theatres Trust conference
Focus: Live Nation
Michael Quinn takes a look at the company’s history, its current situation and increasing interest in live music, plus the portfolio of UK theatres it is putting up for sale
Chit Chat - What’s in a name?
One section of the cultural community, however, which appears to have no problem calling a spade as a spade, so to speak, are London’s gay theatre makers.
Chit Chat - Conditioning in modern art
The Tory’s shadow arts team has done rather a good job at ingratiating itself to the cultural sector over the last year or so. Indeed, its charm offensive has been never more apparent than in the last month, when Conservative minister for culture Ed Vaizey has been seen one day cropping up at a National Campaign for the Arts conference and another in a feature interview for The Grauniad, of all places.
Radio review - light programme
For those delighting in a trip back to the halcyon era when TV advertisements weren’t CGI enhanced and full of deadly dull bank employees singing about mortgages, Radio 4’s Bill Mitchell, The Man Who Wrestled Pumas. Probably, was a great, albeit too brief look at a man whose voice was more gravel laden than the M1’s hard shoulder.
TV review
Ozzy (Brian Cox) is not the kind of gangster to let the minor inconvenience of being in prison stop him from taking care of his illicit business interests outside.
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Backstage
- Diverse design
- ADLIB Audio supplied sound for the Love Music Hate Racism Festival 2009,…
- Orb control
- Zero 88 has announced a series of training days in the UK, offering users…
- Oasis of light
- Oasis’ Dig Out Your Soul world tour is currently using more than 140 i-Pix…
- Life on Mars
- The BFI’s Southbank Gallery has gone 3D, via a new, immersive video…
- Electric excitement
- Stage Electrics will be among the exhibitors at the first Excite! - the new…
Obituaries
- Irene Richmond
- The daughter of pioneering cinema owners, Irene Richmond was to appear in…
- Charles Russell
- The theatre impresario, costumier, actor and pioneer of Noel Coward’s career…
- Doris Barry
- Like her sister, Dame Alicia Markova, Doris Barry began her working life as a…
- Babs Adams
- It was whilst writing her autobiography, Parade of Clowns, that Babs Adams…
- Terence Alexander
- Tall, handsome, suave and sophisticated, the priesthood was Terence…
Letters
- Ageist against Arlene
- Two recent news items about the programme Strictly Come Dancing have drawn my…
- Archives are the answer
- My grateful thanks to your columnist, Ian Herbert, for his generous review of…
- Remembering Patrick
- Sorry to hear of Patrick Newley’s death, and at no age at all. I always…
- Reliving the summer of '69
- I am organising a 40 year reunion of drama performers course graduates who…
- Keeping up with the Joneses
- In his book Sullivan and his Satellites, which was published in 1978, Alan…
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