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3 days ago | 
ca.style.yahoo.com | Michael Coveney
John Gale became director of the Chichester Festival theatre in the 1980s, rescuing it from near collapse with a rigorous policy of classic comedies and star-casting.Photograph: Nobby ClarkThe elegantly rumbustious West End theatre producer John Gale, who has died aged 95, made his name and his fortune when, in 1971, he produced the longest-running comedy of all time, No Sex Please, We’re British, by Alistair Foot and Anthony Marriott.
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1 week ago | 
fpa-trends.com | Michael Coveney
How AI/ML Will Transform FP&A May 6, 2025 AI/MLis increasingly part of our everyday lives. In the same way that mobile phones, the Internet, and apps have transformed communication and shopping habits, AI/ML is transforming the way organisations function, touching every business process along the way. That change includes FP&A and the role it plays in supporting management.
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3 weeks ago | 
fpa-trends.com | Michael Coveney
Combining AI Insights and Human Expertise to Transform FP&A April 24, 2025 In today's rapidly evolving business landscape, organisations are increasingly turning to Artificial Intelligence (AI), Machine Learning (ML) and Generative AI to gain a competitive advantage. For FP&A professionals, the convergence of AI with human intelligence is essential to address complex financial challenges and drive strategic decision-making.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
Ebullient, pugnacious, larger than life. No single adjective is sufficient to describethe tumultuous, impossible talent of the director Mike Bradwell, who has died aged 76. The success of the Hull Truck Theatre company that he founded in 1971 led, eventually, to the great success of Hull’s year as the European city of culture in 2017.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
No one who saw Clive Revill, who has died aged 94, on stage or screen thought he was anything less than a superb actor. However, for one who enjoyed such a distinguished career, he was surprisingly little known to the general public. It was as though he operated under the radar. He was twice nominated for a Tony award on Broadway, worked three times in startlingly different productions with the great stage director Peter Brook, and twice with the film director Billy Wilder.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Michael Coveney
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
The start of postwar theatre in London was signalled by the birth of the Old Vic school in the rubble of the bombed theatre in Waterloo in 1948 and the reopening of the Old Vic itself in 1950. The actor Lee Montague, who has died aged 97, was a founding student at the school and “walked on” in Twelfth Night, the first professional production in the postwar era at the Vic. His subsequent stage career included Old Vic seasons separated by 10 years.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Michael Coveney
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Michael Coveney
Michael Ratcliffe, who has died aged 89, was the former theatre critic of the Observer. He was one of the last of the “man of letters” breed of journalist who encompassed all the arts, with experience, erudition and a regard for the great tradition, especially in Europe, but an open, expansive and always analytical attitude to innovation. Most of his work was that of a literary editor and critic.
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2 months ago | 
msn.com | Michael Coveney
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