1.   A couple of moments do flag, but Millennium artistic director John Gunn mostly keeps his actors moving briskly through their paces.

2.   The age of those mighty, entrepreneurial artistic directors has probably come to an end.

3.   The artistic director announced that a new play would be staged next month.

4.   The play will be produced by Roland Jaquarello, former artistic director at the Lyric, who is now a freelance in London.

5.   Artistic director Michael Barnes revealed today that the Opera House, devastated by a terrorist bomb in May, will only be refurbished partially by the re-opening date.

6.   Artistic director Christopher Gable has injected it with a new lease of life and brought it to a completely different audience.

7.   Also on board is Mats Liljeforsa, who conducted the orchestra at the Royal Palace and is artistic director of the Royal Baltic Festival.

8.   Although Kevin McKenzie, artistic director of Ballet Theater, considers Richardson a great dancer, he did not think he was ready for Romeo.

9.   Although nominally just music director, Chung was given a lavish new contract by Berge and has assumed many of the functions of artistic director.