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... August 12 at the Kings Theatre with Variety by the Grid Iron Theatre Company, which chronicles the death t.hroesd of variety theatre in Scotland. One of the world’s great theatre companies, the Vienna Burgtheater returns to Edinburgh with a production ...

Published: Friday 05 July 2002
Newspaper: Belfast News-Letter
County: Antrim, Northern Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 83 | Page: 30 | Tags: none

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... Great British Design Quest shortlist. the winner of which is announced on March 16 Matthew Sweet explores the National Variety Theatre in Blackpool and composer Osvaldo Gohiov I , scusses h, music. 657142 12.20 BBC News 24. 897272 2.00 Learning Zone. 6119562 ...

Published: Saturday 11 February 2006
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 359 | Page: 159 | Tags: none

MAN MVO MONDAYM MARCH 200111 VIZ • V Classifieds RAVEL Scene set for New York star

... Oscar-nominated Robert De Niro prowls the mean streets of the East Village obsessing about 12- year-old Jodie Foster. The Variety Theatre on 3rd Avenue in the East Village is the scene of De Niro's first date with Foster (he takes her to see a porno flick) ...

Published: Monday 26 March 2001
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 390 | Page: 38 | Tags: none

s✓' .; • FRIDAY 'By tradition, Friday night starts in The Norsehoe Bar of The Shelboume Hotel. The same people

... singing. ave a 'A show? With Jack Cruise's and Maureen Potter's Summer Shows gone, Dubliners are missing out on Taoiseach, variety theatre. Rebecca Storm or a Bishop Julian Cleary would make for a good night in The Olympia. and a Queen' 'A drink after in The ...

Published: Friday 09 May 2003
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 465 | Page: 83 | Tags: none

TONIGHT'S TV HIGHLIGHTS

... audiences all his life. Pulling Strings tracks the career of the man behind the wonderful Lambert Puppet Theatre through variety theatre, radio, early television and back to the theatre in Monkstown which he and his family set up over 30 years ago. 4$ TUESDAY ...

Published: Tuesday 13 January 2004
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 490 | Page: 48 | Tags: none

•06 • • • now mount rehearsed readings berant comedy ... and a painfully includes an overheard story in his

... Arts Fes- The play Varietychronicles the Also as part of the mid-summer tival and the National Theatre, death throes of variety theatre in festival in the southern capital, which has resulted in the produc- Scotland, and is directed by Ben Meridian theatre ...

Published: Sunday 09 June 2002
Newspaper: Sunday Tribune
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 770 | Page: 58 | Tags: none

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... Porridge a life of obscurity where hang- thing else. Well you know, obscurity for many years, so it now following suit and variety theatre, George ing out the washing is the there are other jobs apart can be done. Wiley (his real name) kept highlight of the ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 2007
Newspaper: Evening Herald (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1121 | Page: 12 | Tags: none

Royalty leads tributes for the biggest Goon of them all

... his semiautobiographical novel Twice Brightly. the story of a young Welsh comedian struggling to make his name in the variety theatre. He was a regular contributor to Punch, and his magazine articles were collected under the title Goon for Lunch (which ...

Published: Thursday 12 April 2001
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1093 | Page: 16 | Tags: none

REVIEW

... Marino, price €12.95 DILLY DAILY at 'Lilly Lally'. It's a lovely play by Hugh Leonard about bygone days in the Dublin variety theatre featuring characters reminiscent of Maureen Potter and Jimmy O'Dea. Starring Barbara Brennan (above). Every day (except ...

Published: Sunday 26 January 2003
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1988 | Page: 57 | Tags: none

screen and tears off it on their visit to Cobh

... wonderfully graceful dance outside the saloon in Way Out West. Meanwhile, they made trips to Europe, and performed in variety theatres. Their adoring fans turned out by the thousand. Their most cherished moment came not on stage, however, but when the ...

Published: Sunday 06 January 2002
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 421 | Page: 67 | Tags: none

Cora Goffin

... Cora Goffin became the primary breadwinner for her mother, grandmother and three unmarried aunts. She began touring the variety theatres in her first dramatic role as The Little Prince, an adaptation of Shakespeare's King John. Her first starring role was ...

Published: Sunday 20 June 2004
Newspaper: Sunday Independent (Dublin)
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Article | Words: 600 | Page: 29 | Tags: none

HANOVER GARDENS, SALFORD '4l4tL 11.11111 How a gruffish Corkman went from drags to riches

... marked that year when he appeared before Queen Elizabeth at the annual royal performance. Throughout the 60s, he packed variety theatres, breaking box-office records, and was a leading entertainer on television. By 1970, when he performed in a long-running ...

Published: Tuesday 02 June 2009
Newspaper: Irish Independent
County: Dublin, Republic of Ireland
Type: Illustrated | Words: 820 | Page: 15 | Tags: none