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Thursday, January 2, 2014

Business News: Lion King was highest grossing Broadway show in 2013 by Michael Quinn

Long-running musical The Lion King was the most successful show on Broadway in 2013, taking almost $97 million (£58.7 million) in ticket sales in its 16th year on the Great White Way. The…

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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

News: Cats choreographer Gillian Lynne and producer Michael Codron among New Year honours by Michael Quinn

Stars of theatre, television and the concert hall have been recognised in a New Year honours list that sees choreographer Gillian Lynne and actors Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury appointe…

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Saturday, December 28, 2013

News: French director arrested after arts funding protest by Michael Quinn

A theatre director has been arrested in Paris after driving his car into the gates of the French president's official residence. Italian-born Attilio Maggiulli said he had deliberately crash…

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Tuesday, December 24, 2013

News: Comedy agent Addison Cresswell dies by Michael Quinn

Addison Cresswell, the agent and producer who was named the most powerful man in comedy last year, has died at the age of 53. With his company Off the Kerb, Cresswell represented many of the…

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Monday, December 23, 2013

Business News: ENO box office up 18% in 2012/13 by Michael Quinn

Increased performances and audience numbers together with a 71% increase in income from sponsorship and donations gave English National Opera a 12% boost in total income to just over £40 …

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Friday, December 20, 2013

Production News: Harry Potter to be adapted into stage play by Michael Quinn

Harry Potter creator JK Rowling has announced she is to co-produce a new stage play featuring the early years of the boy wizard with producers Sonia Friedman and Colin Callender. In an annou…

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Wednesday, December 18, 2013

Production News: Ivor Novello's final musical to premiere at Finborough by Michael Quinn

Ivor Novello's last musical, Valley of Song, is to receive its professional world premiere at the Finborough Theatre in January as part of the venue's Celebrating British Music Theatre serie…

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Monday, December 16, 2013

Obituaries: Peter O'Toole by Michael Quinn

Eight times Oscar nominated and an international star on both stage and screen, Peter O'Toole was one of the most gifted and charismatic actors of his generation. Tall, blond, piercingly blu…

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News: Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre faces local funding cuts by Michael Quinn

The future of Guildford's Yvonne Arnaud Theatre has been thrown into doubt with news that the Surrey town's borough council has proposed to reduce, and possibly end, its funding for the venu…

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News: Belfast MAC cancels performance after bomb explosion by Michael Quinn

Police in Northern Ireland have issued an appeal for witnesses after a bomb explosion close to Belfast's Metropolitan Arts Centre on Friday night led to the cancellation of a performance by …

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Sunday, December 15, 2013

News: Peter O'Toole dies aged 81 by Michael Quinn

Peter O'Toole, who announced his retirement from acting in July last year, has died at the age of 81. His death in London's Wellington Hospital on Saturday evening after a long illness was r…

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Saturday, December 14, 2013

Analysis & Opinion: Cutting-edge investment by Michael Quinn

Michael Quinn investigates the benefits of crowdfunding websites

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Friday, December 13, 2013

Business News: Encore Tickets sold to private equity buyer by Michael Quinn

Encore Tickets, the UK's leading independent supplier of tickets for theatres, visitor attractions and restaurants, has been sold by current backers ISIS Equity Partners to the private equit…

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Thursday, December 12, 2013

Obituaries: Anne Barton by Michael Quinn

Anne Barton was one of the most formidable scholars of her generation. She offered revealing new insights into the work of Byron, Ben Jonson and Shakespeare, and was equally perceptive about…

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News: Newcastle culture fund yet to attract any donations by Michael Quinn

A £600,000 Cultural Investment Fund created by Newcastle City Council to attract match funding for the arts from private donors has failed to attract any money since its launch in July. T…

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Wednesday, December 11, 2013

Obituaries: Malcolm Morrison by Michael Quinn

After graduating from Rose Bruford College in 1964 and enjoying an active career as a director and teacher, Malcolm Morrison returned to the Kent training academy to become its head of actin…

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News: Andrew Lloyd Webber confirms Joseph film adaptation by Michael Quinn

Plans for a film version of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat have been confirmed by the show's composer. In an interview on BBC’s The One…

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Analysis & Opinion: Trials and tribute acts by Michael Quinn

A recent European court ruling highlights how musical homage can mean walking a legal tightrope. Michael Quinn investigates

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Tuesday, December 3, 2013

News: Five shows break Broadway records in Thanksgiving week by Michael Quinn

Five Broadway theatres reported new house records for income from ticket sales for performances leading up to last weekend's Thanksgiving celebrations. Great White Way veteran The Lion King …

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Friday, November 29, 2013

News: Professionals actos Lewis Collins dies by Michael Quinn

Lewis Collins, best known as the swaggering tough-guy cop Brodie in the hit 1970s crime series The Professionals, has died at the age of 67. His death at his home in Los Angeles on Wednesday…

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Monday, November 25, 2013

Business News: Southbank reports "satisfactory" results for 2012/13 by Michael Quinn

Increased ticket sales and sponsorship helped London's Southbank Centre post a marginal 1.3% increase in income to £42.6 million in the year to the end of March, helping to compensate for…

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Thursday, November 21, 2013

Obituaries: Annette Kerr by Michael Quinn

Few people could claim to be a confidante of the obsessively private, prickly and sharp-tongued Kenneth Williams. Fewer still to have received a marriage proposal from him. Annette Kerr enjo…

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News: Legacy plans unveiled for Derry-Londonderry post City of Culture year by Michael Quinn

Northern Ireland's culture minister Caral Ni Chuilin has announced the formation of a new company with a £2 million budget to build on the legacy of Derry-Londonderry's year as the UK's f…

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Obituaries: Noel Harrison by Michael Quinn

Indelibly associated with the Oscar-winning song The Windmills of Your Mind, Noel Harrison had been performing the Michel Legrand-penned theme to the 1968 film The Thomas Crown Affair just h…

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Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Obituaries: Barbara Hicks by Michael Quinn

Considered by Mel Brooks to be the funniest person he'd ever met, and a member of both the early English Stage Company at the Royal Court and the inaugural National Theatre company, Barbara …

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Business News: ITV Studios reveals 11% revenue increase by Michael Quinn

ITV Studios, the commercial broadcaster's in-house production and acquisition arm, saw revenues increase by 11% to £555 million in the nine months to September 11. Growth in ITV's online,…

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Friday, November 15, 2013

Business News: Bristol Old Vic reveals plans for front of house refurbishment by Michael Quinn

The Bristol Old Vic " the UK's oldest continually working theatre " has revealed plans for a "stunning and dramatic" £12 million refurbishment of the grade I-listed venue's front of house…

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Wednesday, November 13, 2013

News: Tender process for Belfast's Lyric may have been "rigged", report finds by Michael Quinn

The tender process for the £11 million contract to re-build Belfast's Lyric Theatre may have been "rigged and manipulated" a report by the Northern Ireland Assembly's spending watchdog ha…

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Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Obituaries: Anthony Vivis by Michael Quinn

As a renowned translator of contemporary German plays, the contribution of Anthony Vivis to popularising one of the most vibrant and searching strands of 20th-century theatre did much to enr…

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Tuesday, October 29, 2013

Production News: Adelaide Festival 2014 to host four world premieres, Robert Lepage and Denis O'Hare by Michael Quinn

The 2014 Adelaide Festival will include four world premieres, 29 Australian premieres and 1,000 performers from 29 countries with theatre and dance to the fore. It will be the second program…

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Friday, October 25, 2013

News: Derry-Londonderry City of Culture venue to be demolished by Michael Quinn

A £4 million concert space built to house concerts during Derry-Londonderry's City of Culture celebrations is to be demolished in January at a cost of nearly £450,000. The decision to …

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