76 stories by "Liz Arratoon"
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Actor, singer, musician and writer Matthew Floyd Jones is best known as the male half of cabaret duo Frisky and Mannish, but he also appears as solo charÂacters, including Ruth Less. A fo…
One of The Stage's longest-standing and most prolific contributing editors and dance specialists " and my friend " Kevin Berry died on August 12, aged 68, having been diagnosed with a brain …
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Having studied acting, mime, acrobatics and dance in Rome, Italian-American Floriana Frassetto co-founded the pioneering performance troupe Mummenschanz in 1972. The company has toured the w…
Singer/songwriter Natasha Kazmierski trained in performing arts at Italia Conti Academy of Theatre Arts in London. Her first contract was "an absolute dream" " she spent almost a year perfor…
Gentleman juggler Tom Gaskin has circus in his blood. At 14, he started as a spotlight operator and ring boy at Great Yarmouth's Hippodrome Circus. A former National Centre for Circus Arts s…
Clown Emile Delbosq comes from a circus dynasty. His parents are Jane Delbosq and Jean Paul Santus and his sister is foot juggler Germaine Delbosq. Having appeared internationally for most o…
As well as heading her own five-piece band, multi-instrumentalist Charlotte Glasson is a member of prog-rock band Three Friends, and is in demand as a session musician. She has played worldw…
Chanteuse Xara Vaughan has had an interesting life " childhood stardom, teenage rebellion, dancing at Stringfellows and joining a punk band after a spell in a Nepalese nunnery all add to her…
MD, multi-instrumentalist and composer Robert Lee has written scores for many theatre shows and produced two full-length musicals. He plays with various bands including Herbie Treehead's Dis…
Australian circus artist Alice Muntz joined the Flying Fruit Fly Circus at eight and stayed for 10 years, specialising in aerials and diabolo, and also did a technical traineeship at Hot Hou…
Welsh actress, singer, cabaret and music hall performer Lowri-Ann Richards trained at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and also has an MA in actor coaching from Central School of S…
Udderbelly, Southbank Centre, London: When juggling is just about numbers it can be a bit mechanical, but here the numbers - including two women, four tea sets, seven men, nine chairs and 80…
Having made her West End debut at 10, dancer/singer Becky Stone is a child of the stage. Her professional training started at Sylvia Young Theatre School at 11, when she appeared on the Chil…
Roundhouse, London: Coming from the creative team behind the international smash Cantina, and with a line-up including some of Australia's top circus artists, plus live onstage music fr…
Comedy monster Red Bastard was created by top US bouffon Eric Davis, with input from Deanna Fleysher and Sue Morrison. Eric appeared in Cirque du Soleil's Iris, won the 2010 NY Downtown Gold…
Circus artist Germaine Delbosq has an exceptional circus background, being descended from multiple generations of performers on both her mother Jane Delbosq's side and her father Jean Paul S…
Actor Martin Atkinson, who comes from Norfolk, trained in performing arts/acting at City College Norwich. He spent two years in TIE then joined Blunderbus children's theatre company in 2012,…
Trained in ballet, musical theatre and acting, Laurie Hagen appeared in roles including a plate and napkin in Beauty and the Beast. Then she switched to burlesque. A regular on the capital's…
Actor Sophie Russell trained in performing arts at Middlesex University and L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Arts et Techniques du Theatre in Paris. She's worked extensively in theatre for c…
National Centre for Circus Arts, London: While the circus industry - both traditional and contemporary - heads towards saturation point, with everyone and their granny wanting to have a go, …
Roundhouse, London: Having already sat through James Thierree's turgid ramblings this week, how refreshing to see a show that is so entertaining. Mistakenly translated as the wolf pack,…
Sadler's Wells, London: After a four-year absence from London, director/performer James Thierree returns with Compagnie du Hanneton's fifth and biggest show to date. After the one-man R…
Hawth, Crawley: In the same part of the Venn diagram as Tap Dogs and Stomp, the key word in Tap Factory is 'factory' - and in this factory, they produce tap dance and drumming. But…
