StageTalk’s Graham Wyles has been taking a closer look at Bath’s wonderful children’s theatre, the egg, and meets Kate Cross one of the most influential theatre administrators you may never have heard of. She was the driving force behind the creation of the theatre and has been its sole executive director.
Read MoreOn Sunday, 9th April the Theatre Bath Bus officially flung open its doors to the public for the first time. This unique mobile performance venue, which took over a year to complete, was entirely funded by the local community. When the doors opened at noon it was flooded with people eager to see the finished product.
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The Board of The Everyman Theatre Cheltenham has announced that they are appointing Mark Goucher as their Chief Executive. Goucher (50), who will continue to run his independent production company alongside his duties at the theatre, is an established independent West End and Touring producer of 25 years’ standing.
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In a career spanning six decades Audrey was equally adept at comedy and serious drama, becoming a regular and popular character actor in rep at Bath’s Theatre Royal, Birmingham Rep, Cheltenham Everyman and Bristol Old Vic. In the 1980s, she worked at the National Theatre and appeared, in 1982 with Peter O’Toole in Man and Superman before making her final stage appearance at the Bristol Old Vic in 1985.
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The death has been announced of Michael Napier Brown the actor, director, and playwright who was the chief executive and artistic director of the Royal Theatre in Northampton for over 20 years after having started his directorial career in Cheltenham. . . he decided to become a director and wrote to Malcolm Farquhar who was artistic director at the Everyman Theatre in Cheltenham . . .
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The Royal Shakespeare Company announces today that Gregory Doran’s production of Arthur Miller’s 1949 Pulitzer Prize-winning play DEATH OF A SALESMAN will transfer to the Noël Coward Theatre in London’s West End, following its run in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon. The entire Stratford cast, led by Antony Sher and Harriet Walter has received recent critical acclaim and will transfer for a ten week run from 9 May until 18 July 2015.
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