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... Veteran actor SIR JOHN MILLS holds his trophy after winning the 1992 Critics Circle Award for distinguished service to the Arts. Sir John, 84, made his first stage appearence in 1929 in the chorus for the London Hippodrome show. The Five O'Clock Girl. Knighted in 1976, his screen roles include his 1971 Oscar winning performance in Ryan's Daughter. ...
... take in a little local colour at Chappel and Wakes Colne station in Colchester. Arnold Ridley's vintage thriller, which he wrote in 1925, long before the real Home Guard had been thought of, let alone the Dad's Army comedy series in which he enjoyed an autumnal success, is opening the autumn season at the Mercury and will run until August 23. Eight stage hands are busy each night, recreating ...
... Camp pathos from VAUGHAN WILLIAMS, GERED WINDLE and PETER TAMM as the Insinuendos at Old St Paul's Church, Jeffrey Street. ...
... Centre's five day festival of puppetry, film, television and video which The Puppet Centre is organising from March 3 to 7. ...
... Truly Madly Deeply, which was orignally made for BBC2's Screen Two season. JULIET STEVENSON (left) was named best actress, with her co-star ALAN RICKMAN (right) best actor, while the film's writer and director, Anthony Minghella, took the award for most promising newcomer. Although the film is still being shown in some cinemas. Truly Madly Deeply can be seen in the current season of Screen Two ...
... IAN TASKER has a strange, surreal Shakespearean experience PAUL BRADLEY as Horatio, PETER GUINNESS as Hamlet and GAVIN HARDING as Marcellus in a scene from 'Hamlet'--slightly speedier than standard Shakespeare. ...
... a gun on them. DEBBIE-ANNE WITTER with Just Another Boring Old Bugger On Stage at the Tabard. Written by Brian Rix's son, Jonathon, the platform reading, performed for three nights, tells of an old man who holds a school assembly hostage while he 'bores them' with his life story, etc, etc until he's dragged away by the police. ...
... this year's pantomime. Cinderella, has been extended for an extra week until January 28. Bookings have already reached the £250,000 mark with the first night still seven weeks away, and the production looks certain to be the most successful pantomime in the theatre's history and extra box office staff have been brought in. ...
... rating drama serial Coronation Street and met Bettabuys stalwart Vera Duckworth (played by ELIZABETH DAWN, centre). Under the guiding hand of MATTHEW CORBETT (right), Sooty is going back to his northern roots-- he first appeared on BBC Manchester's entertainment show Talent Tonight-- with Sooty & Co, a new programme for Children's ITV. Featuring his partners in crime Sweep and Sue, the show ...
... Putting a pep in your step-LOU RAWLS ...
... last week for the new agreement between the union and theatre management. The signing was also amended by members of the Swet and Equity teams who hammered out the agreement, among the SWET's chief negotiator Michael Codron and Verity Hudson, the Society president. ...
... record nevertheless, for being the star of the biggest money making show in the history of seaside theatre. His show at the North Pier, Blackpool, took a phenomenal £1¾ million during its run, which was attended by nearly half a million people. The award, made by First Leisure Corporation, followed the recent presentation to Russ and Freddie Starr of gold discs after smashing the one million ...