Stage is set for RSC
IT HAS been said that the substantial Sir Cameron Mackintosh has to telephone his office to check how many theatres he owns, so it should be no surprise that he can afford to spare a West End venue for the Royal Shakespeare Company.
Yesterday it was announced that Stratford-based company had signed a five-year deal to present a season of plays in a theatre owned by Sir Cameron's company Delfont-Mackintosh.
The deal follows the RSC's return to the West End (to the Delfont-Mackintosh Albery Theatre) with four tragedies which played to 87-per cent houses.
For the 2005/2006 season, the company will be at the Novello Theatre with four comedies - Michael Boyd's production of Twelfth Night, Nancy Meckler's The Comedy of Errors, Dominic Cooke's As You Like It and Greg Doran's A Midsummer Night's Dream - currently playing in Stratford.
The new season will also see the continuation of the pounds-5 ticket scheme for 16 to 25-year-olds, making a selection of seats (not just the cheapest ones) available to young people. Public booking for the season will open on October 1. The RSC box office number is 0870 609 1110.
Reid bares his soul
THOSE who have heard Terry Reid tend to revere him highly.
As they include Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, Keith Richards, Roger Daltrey and Aretha Franklin - all of whom have praised him to the skies - their opinions are probably worth consideration. Famously, the blue-eyed British soulman turned down invitations to join both Led Zeppelin and Deep Purple before his twentieth birthday, having performed professionally since he was 15.
This summer, The Legendary Terry Reid, to give him his accustomed title, has been booked to appear at the Glastonbury Festival. Before all that, however, he is appearing in Scotland, firstly at The Famous Bein Inn, to give it its accustomed title, in Glenfarg on June 30 and then at Laurie's Bar in Glasgow's King Street on July 2.
Tickets for each gig are pounds-14.
Fine day for knight
ON SUNDAY afternoon, the Orchestra of Scottish Opera, under the baton of Sir Richard Armstrong, continues its St Andrew's series at St Andrew's in the Square, Glasgow, with the same programme on Tuesday evening at St Andrew's and St George's in Edinburgh.
A fine diverse summer programme includes the Overture to Iolanthe, Geoffrey Emerson arrangements of Glazunov, Faure and Handel for winds, pieces by Sally Beamish and Sibelius, and two by Mozart. Tickets are, as usual, a bargain pounds-5 from the Theatre Royal box office.
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