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Gateway Theatre (Chester)
file:Gateway_Theatre_-_geograph.org.uk_-_833193.jpg, Gateway Theatre, alt=Gateway Theatre The Gateway Theatre was a small producing and receiving theatre in the city of Chester, England, which opened in 1969 and closed in 2007. Gateway Theatre Matthew Kelly was the theatre's stage manager during the 1970s and John Caird (director), John Caird was the assistant stage manager. Well-known performers who appeared at the Gateway included James Bolam, Sinead Cusack, Les Dennis, Patricia Hodge, Penelope Keith, David Suchet and Dennis Waterman. The venue closed in 2007,BBC News: Final curtain for Chester theatre (accessed 10 June 2017) [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gateway Theatre - Geograph
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Patricia Hodge
Patricia Ann Hodge (born 29 September 1946) is an English actress. She is known on-screen for playing Phyllida Erskine-Brown in '' Rumpole of the Bailey'' (1978–1992), Jemima Shore in '' Jemima Shore Investigates'' (1983), Penny in '' Miranda'' (2009–2015) and Mrs Pumphrey in '' All Creatures Great and Small'' (2021–present). Hodge made her West End debut in 1972, and the next year, starred in the West End production of '' Pippin'' directed by Bob Fosse. Hodge has received two nominations for the Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Musical, and in 2000, she won the Olivier Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in the play ''Money''. Hodges' other screen credits include the 1983 film '' Betrayal'', the 1986 TV adaptation of '' The Life and Loves of a She-Devil'', and the TV film '' Hotel du Lac'' (1986). For her role in ''Hotel du Lac'', Hodge received a nomination for the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress. Early life Hodge was born in Cleethorpes, Lincolnshi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatres In Cheshire
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows technical terminol ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Storyhouse
Storyhouse is a large, mixed-use cultural building in Chester, England, which opened in May 2017. The complex includes a theatre, cinema, restaurant and the city library. It is housed in the remodelled 1936 Odeon Cinema, a grade-II-listed building, together with a newly built extension to hold the theatre auditorium. History The Odeon cinema opened in Chester on 3 October 1936. It was designed in the Art Deco style by Robert Bullivant, under the leadership of Harry Weedon, with a total auditorium capacity of over 1600 seats. While most Odeons of that time were faced in ceramic tiles, red brick was used in Chester to respect its historic setting, near both the cathedral and the Victorian town hall. In 1976 the Odeon was converted to a three screen cinema; two more screens were added in 1991. The main internal fabric and proscenium arch remained intact. The building was listed Grade II by Historic England, then English Heritage, in 1989. The Odeon closed in 2007 and remained un ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lea Anderson
Lea Anderson MBE is a British choreographer and artistic director. She co-founded The Cholmondeleys and The Featherstonehaughs dance companies with Teresa Barker and Gaynor Coward, at which she has choreographed over 100 works. She was appointed Member of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding valuable service in a wide range of useful activities. It comprises five classes of awards across both civil and military divisions, the most senior two o ... (MBE) in the 2002 Birthday Honours. Key collaborators include: *Sandy Powell - costume design, *Steve Blake - composer, *Drostan Madden - composer, *Chris Nash - photography, *Simon Corder - lighting/stage design, *Simon Vincenzi - costume and staging design, *Tim Spooner - costume design, *Emma Fryer - costume design, *Jo Stendall - executive producer. Anderson's style has been described as ''" ...this most accessible of choreographers (feeds) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dennis Waterman
Dennis Waterman (24 February 1948 – 8 May 2022) was an English actor and singer. He was best known for his tough-guy leading roles in television series including ''The Sweeney'', ''Minder (TV series), Minder'' and ''New Tricks'', singing the theme tunes of the latter two. Waterman's acting career spanned 60 years, starting with his childhood roles in film and theatre, and adult roles in film, television and West End theatre. He was known for the range of roles he played, including drama (''Up the Junction (film), Up the Junction''), horror (''Scars of Dracula''), adventure (''Colditz (1972 TV series), Colditz''), comedy (''Fair Exchange (TV series), Fair Exchange''), comedy-drama (''Minder''), musical (''Windy City (musical), Windy City'') and sport (''The World Cup: A Captain's Tale''). He appeared in 29 films, the last being released in 2020. Early life and education Waterman was born on 24 February 1948, as the youngest of nine children to Rose Juliana (née Saunders) an ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Suchet
Sir David Courtney Suchet ( ; born 2 May 1946) is an English actor. He is known for his work on stage and in television. He portrayed Edward Teller in the television serial '' Oppenheimer'' (1980) and received the RTS and BPG awards for his performance as Augustus Melmotte in the British serial '' The Way We Live Now'' (2001). International acclaim and recognition followed his performance as Agatha Christie's detective Hercule Poirot in ''Agatha Christie's Poirot'' (1989–2013), for which he received a 1991 British Academy Television Award for Best Actor nomination."The Actor Behind Popular 'Poirot" '''', 25 March 1992. [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Penelope Keith
Dame Penelope Anne Constance Keith (''née'' Hatfield; born 2 April 1940) is an English actress and presenter, active in film, radio, stage and television and primarily known for her roles in the British sitcoms '' The Good Life'' and '' To the Manor Born''. She succeeded Lord Olivier as president of the Actors' Benevolent Fund after his death in 1989, and was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire (DBE) in the 2014 New Year Honours for services to the arts and to charity. Keith joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1963, and went on to win the 1976 Olivier Award for Best Comedy Performance for the play '' Donkeys' Years''. She became a household name in the UK playing Margo Leadbetter in the sitcom ''The Good Life'' (1975–78), winning the 1977 BAFTA TV Award for Best Light Entertainment Performance. In 1978 Keith won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actress for '' The Norman Conquests''. She then starred as Audrey fforbes-Hamilton in the sitcom ''To the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Les Dennis
Leslie Dennis Heseltine (born 12 October 1953) is an English television presenter, actor and comedian. He presented '' Family Fortunes'' from 1987 to 2002. Early life Dennis was born as Leslie Dennis Heseltine on 12 October 1953 in the Liverpool suburb of Garston. His mother worked in a factory while his father, who worked in a betting shop after serving in the Royal Navy during the Second World War, was listed as a football player on the books of Liverpool FC but did not play for the first team. He lived in the suburb of Speke for a while and attended the Stockton Wood and Joseph Williams primary schools, before going to Morrison Rose Lane Secondary Modern school in Allerton. From 1967 he went to Quarry Bank Comprehensive. Dennis left there in June 1972 with an A-level in Art and failed History and English Literature. He had a weekend job in the men's clothing store Burton whilst still at school, and started as a stand-up comedian in working men's clubs. Career Early ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Theatre
Theatre or theater is a collaborative form of performing art that uses live performers, usually actors to present experiences of a real or imagined event before a live audience in a specific place, often a Stage (theatre), stage. The performers may communicate this experience to the audience through combinations of gesture, speech, song, music, and dance. It is the oldest form of drama, though live theatre has now been joined by modern recorded forms. Elements of art, such as painted scenery and stagecraft such as lighting are used to enhance the physicality, presence and immediacy of the experience. Places, normally buildings, where performances regularly take place are also called "theatres" (or "theaters"), as derived from the Ancient Greek θέατρον (théatron, "a place for viewing"), itself from θεάομαι (theáomai, "to see", "to watch", "to observe"). Modern Western theatre comes, in large measure, from the theatre of ancient Greece, from which it borrows tec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Bolam
James Christopher Bolam (born 16 June 1935) is an English actor. He is best known for his roles as Terry Collier in '' The Likely Lads'' and its sequel ''Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?'', Jack Ford in ''When the Boat Comes In'', Roy Figgis in '' Only When I Laugh'', Trevor Chaplin in '' The Beiderbecke Trilogy'', Arthur Gilder in '' Born and Bred'', Jack Halford in ''New Tricks'' and the title character of Grandpa in the CBeebies programme '' Grandpa in My Pocket''. He also played the serial killer Harold Shipman in the ITV drama '' Shipman'' and portrayed Harold Wilson in the BBC documentary ''The Plot Against Harold Wilson''. For ''When the Boat Comes In'', Bolam was twice nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 1977 and 1978 and in 1995 he was nominated for the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor for ''Glengarry Glen Ross'' at The Donmar Warehouse. Life and career Bolam was born on 16 June 1935 in Sunderland, County Durham. His fathe ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
