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Corona Theatre School (formerly Corona Academy) was founded in 1950 as a performing arts academy, operating in the region of west London. After the retirement of its owner, Rona Knight, it reopened as Ravenscourt Theatre School in 1989.
Feb 11, 2013 · Corona Theatre School in Hampton, south-west London, is down £25,000 a month after its main donor pulled out due to ill health. Parents of the 32 children who attend the school found out on...
Many of today’s entertainment stars were trained in Chiswick in a stage school, founded and run for over sixty years by Chiswick residents, Rona Knight and her family. William P Roe has comprehensively researched the history of the Corona Stage Academy and talked about it to the Brentford and Chiswick Local History Society in 1996.
The original school Corona Academy in Hammersmith (which I attended) closed when Rona Knight retired. She agreed that a new school (Ravenscourt Theatre School) could take over on the strict understanding that the name "Corona" would never be used in the future.
Sharon Haywoode is an English singer, dancer and entertainer, best known for the 1986 UK Top 20 hit single, "Roses," which she recorded under the name Sid Haywoode. Born in London, Haywoode trained from an early age at London's Corona Stage Academy, later modeling, dancing and acting before...
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Born in Watford, Hertfordshire, the son of actor and entertainer Davy Kaye, Kaplan 'Kap' Kaye trained at the Corona Stage Academy. His television debut was as Young Scrooge in an adaptation of A Christmas Carol (1958), part of the Tales from Dickens series.
Children from The Corona Stage School is known for The Bible in Vision (2012), Festival (1963) and The Arthur Haynes Show (1956).
