922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
No entertainer stamped his personality on prime-time television with such authoritative energy and charismatic zeal as Bruce Forsyth. In every decade from
HomePlace in Bellaghy, where the lauded poet is buried, is about to celebrate its first birthday. Michael Quinn reveals how the former fortified
Born into a theatrical family " her father was the actor Jack Watling, her mother Patricia Hicks " Deborah Watling will be
Tributes have been paid to the Tony award-winning performer Barbara Cook, who has died at the age of 89. A regular on
The theatre and opera director Lee Blakeley has died at the age of 45. His death on August 5 of a heart
Robert Hardy’s success on film and television overshadowed a theatrical career that never quite realised the potential his early stage appearances had
Robert Hardy, best known for television's All Creatures Great and Small and his portrayals of Winston Churchill, has died at the age
The future of the Arts Council of Northern Ireland could be under threat if a review of arm’s-length bodies by the region's
A prolific playwright who inherited Arthur Miller's mantle as the leading American playwright of his generation, Sam Shepard drilled into the dark
Sam Shepard, the Pulitzer prize-winning playwright and a major figure in contemporary American theatre, has died at the age of 73. His
New plays by Stacey Gregg, Sebastian Barry and Belinda McKeon are to feature in the 60th Dublin Theatre Festival alongside playwright Enda
There weren't many areas of the arts and broadcasting in Scotland that Richard Findlay wasn't involved with or that didn't benefit from
Four major UK and Irish theatre premieres have been announced as headline events in this year's Belfast International Arts Festival. The festival's
An agent operating in Northern Ireland has been banned from the business for 10 years, following investigations into complaints from a number
Peter Austin was one of theatre's unsung backroom stars as manager of West End venue the Prince Edward Theatre and administrator of Littlestar,
David Dean created costume designs for some of the greatest choreographers and directors of the last half-century, held important positions with the
At just 5ft 2in tall and weighing 20 stone, for a time in the 1970s Carol Lee Scott advertised herself in The
In leading teaching posts with the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, the Royal Academy of Music and the Juilliard School
For adults of a certain age, Brian Cant was the personification of children's television in an era long before the thin gruel
Migration, trade and climate change all featured on the agenda of this year's Theater Der Welt. Michael Quinn finds out how it
Funding of the arts in Ireland is to be revamped by new guidelines that promise to broaden access and provide greater stability
Reviewing a Manchester University student performance of Christopher Marlowe's Edward II in 1964, The Stage singled out Knight Mantell's Mortimer as "a
A maverick figure who used theatre and poetry to engage with emerging political and social concerns, Heathcote Williams was often anarchically irreverent
Two of Ireland's leading opera companies are to merge to form a new national company, in a move described as "a major
The playwright, poet and political activist Heathcote Williams has died at the age of 75. He had been ill for some time
