922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
A recipient of Tony and BAFTA awards, Roy Dotrice had two other claims to fame " or, at least, to longevity and
Bobby Knutt was already a name on the northern club circuit and in summer season variety shows when he found wider "
Tributes have been paid to Peter Plouviez, the former general secretary of Equity, following his death on October 5, aged 86. In
The chair of the Arts Council of Ireland has described a 5% increase in the organisation's funding for 2018 as "a huge
In a stage career that spanned six decades, Benjamin Whitrow was a supporting actor of consummate elegance who proved time and again
As the opinionated, left-wing "Scouse git" son-in-law to Warren Mitchell's Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part, Tony Booth was the
The Belfast International Arts Festival is Northern Ireland's largest annual arts event and one of the region's oldest celebrations of live performance.
From gobby machinist to preening landlady of the Rovers Return, Liz Dawn's 34 years in Coronation Street made her one of the
It would have been enough to have been known as the man who launched Barbra Streisand's career, but Barry Dennen was himself
Dublin Fringe Festival has announced the appointment of Ruth McGowan as its new festival director. McGowan, who will take up the post
Few actors win the freedom of their birthplace, but such was Michael Twomey's contribution to theatre in Cork, Ireland's second-largest city, that
When it opened in 1982, the Barbican Centre in the heart of the City of London was Europe's largest arts centre. Such
As storyline editor and scriptwriter on Coronation Street for a 15-year period from 1983, Tom Elliott shaped the fortunes of ITV's flagship
Barry Dennen, who played the master of ceremonies in the West End premiere of Cabaret and created the role of Pontius Pilate
The actor and political activist Tony Booth, who found fame in Till Death Us Do Part, has died aged 85. His death
Peter Whalley earned a place in television lore as the most prolific writer for ITV's long-running soap opera Coronation Street, contributing 600
Thomas Meehan was a master flatterer who carved a successful and lucrative career by translating the work of others into a raft
Although her contemporaries regarded her as a social realist, Ann Jellicoe was always quick to refuse that description of plays that dealt
Best known in the UK as an opera director of imagination and visual flair, Lee Blakeley was a rising star of musical
As co-founder of the Foco Novo theatre company, Bernard Pomerance helped shape Britain's alternative theatre movement in the early 1970s, but he
Tributes have been paid to the actor Larrington Walker, who has died aged 70. Lenny Henry, who co-starred with the Jamaican-born Walker
Playwright Ann Jellicoe, a prominent female voice in the generation dominated by “angry young men” who transformed British theatre in the late
Playwright Bernard Pomerance, author of the Tony award-winning The Elephant Man, has died at the age of 76. His death on August
Hailed by the News of the World as "the face of 1967" and favourably likened to his compatriot Richard Burton, Hywel Bennett
Thomas Meehan, winner of three Tony awards for the books to Annie, The Producers and Hairspray, has died at the age of
