Barbara Windsor, star of Carry On films and EastEnders, dies at 83 | Barbara Windsor | The Guardian
Dame Barbara Windsor, best known for her roles in EastEnders and the Carry On films, has died aged 83, her husband Scott Mitchell has said.Mitchell said in a statement: “It … Continue reading
Did You Know…? Peg Woffington and David Garrick | Rogues & Vagabonds
Did you know that the Irish actress Peg Woffington [c 1718 to 1760] was once the mistress of David Garrick [1717 to 1779] and that they lived together in London at No … Continue reading
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Did You Know…? BRADFORD’S OWN • 2006
Miss Marie Studholme as Lady Madcap 1905 © Sarah Vernon at Fine Art America Did you know just how many theatre people have come from Bradford and the surrounding area? … Continue reading
Did You Know…? JANACEK’S SPECTRE AT WILTON’S • 2006
Did you know about the outcry caused by the première of Brian Friel’s Performances at the Gate Theatre in Dublin? “I’d love to see fisticuffs in the bar at Wilton’s,” … Continue reading
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Did You Know…? BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND… • 2006
Did you know that Terence Rattigan originally wanted Margaret Leighton or Celia Johnson to play the part of Hester Collyer in the first production of The Deep Blue Sea, a … Continue reading
Did You Know…? ORIGINS OF THE BADDELEY CAKE • 2006
Did you know about the origins of the Baddeley Cake? When the 18th century actor Robert Baddeley collapsed and died in his dressing room at the Theatre Royal, Drury Lane, … Continue reading
![Theatre World cover showing Sybil Thorndike (L) & Edith Evans (R) in Waters of the Moon at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, 1951] © Sarah Vernon](https://roguesandvagabonds.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/theatre_world014.jpg?w=155&h=110&crop=1)
Did You Know…? | DAME SYBIL THORNDIKE: An Indefatigable Dame • 2008
Did you know that when John Gielgud was arrested for soliciting in 1953 – the basis for critic Nicholas de Jongh’s play, Plague over England, the then landlord of the famous … Continue reading
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Did You Know…? REFUSING HONOURS • 2004
‘I’m putting the phone down now, goodbye,’ said Alan Bennett when, following the leaked document that revealed last month that many notable people in various fields had turned down honours … Continue reading
Did You Know…? Arthur Lloyd’s Immensikoff
Immensikoff: a large overcoat; coined by the music-hall star Arthur Lloyd who called himself Immensikoff and appeared on stage in such a coat to sing, c.1868, his hit ‘The Shoreditch … Continue reading
Did You Know…? CHRISTOPHER FRY 18th December
Christopher Fry: Selected Plays Did you know that the late playwright Christopher Fry was born Christopher Harris in Bristol one hundred and seven years ago on 18 December 1907? He was … Continue reading
Did You Know…? The Skin of Our Teeth • 2004
As David Lan’s revival of Thornton Wilder’s Pulitzer prize-winning play, The Skin of Our Teeth, begins its run at the Young Vic [27-02-04], with David Troughton as George Antrobus, Maureen Beattie as … Continue reading
Did You Know…? • MARIE LLOYD – from the writer to the costermonger
Did you know that the death of music hall performer Marie Lloyd in 1922 struck T S Eliot as “the most important event which I have had to chronicle [in The Dial … Continue reading
Did You Know…? British Music Hall Society
Did you know that The British Music Hall Society (BMHS), founded by Ray Mackendar and Gerald Glover, and its official journal, The Call Boy, have been going for 50 years? The first edition … Continue reading
Did You Know…? Peg Woffington and David Garrick
Did you know that the Irish actress Peg Woffington [c 1718 to 1760] was once the mistress of David Garrick [1717 to 1779] and that they lived together in London at No … Continue reading
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