922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
With funding slashed over the past decade, Michael Quinn looks at the consequences for Northern Irish arts organisations, from companies feeling the
Jill Martin's place in theatre history was secured in 2001 when she became the only actor to appear in all three West
In an era before Australian soap operas became a seemingly permanent fixture on televisions worldwide, Lyn James found herself as the star
Galway's O'Donoghue Centre for Drama, Theatre and Performance has been voted Ireland's favourite building in a poll conducted by the Royal Institute
Plans have been approved by Dublin City Council to demolish the former Andrews Lane Theatre. The city-centre venue has been sold for
The proportion of women writing new plays for Ireland's stages has increased by just 2% in the past decade, claims a new
Sophie Partridge was a dynamic performer, writer, broadcaster and political campaigner. Born with brittle bone syndrome, she proved as tireless as she was
Northern Ireland's arts organisations have entered their second decade of successive annual funding cuts with the announcement of further reductions of up
AR Gurney was one of the most prolific American playwrights of his generation, producing almost a play per year alongside two musicals,
Ireland's new Taoiseach (prime minister) Leo Varadkar has announced the creation of a Department of Culture "with a budget to match" as
Helen Pringle, who has died from cancer at the age of 50, was a tireless advocate of theatre as a force for
With a voice that sounded like it had been knitted from homespun wool, Peter Sallis found fame late in life as the
The actor, playwright and political campaigner Sophie Partridge has died at the age of 48. Her death on June 5 was confirmed
The Irish theatres that receive the most public funding are the worst at achieving gender balance in their work, according to a
When John Noakes joined the BBC's flagship children's programme Blue Peter in 1967, the Beatles were in their pomp and the sober
Roy Barraclough's television fame as theatrical agent-turned Rovers Return landlord Alec Gilroy in Coronation Street, and as the affectedly haughty Cissie to
As artistic director of Kneehigh in the decade to 2005 and founder in the same year of the Redruth, Cornwall-based WildWorks, Bill
Northern Ireland's only dance degree course has closed as part of a wider reorganisation of Ulster University. The move follows an internal
As a script editor, producer and head of the BBC's series and serials department, Michael Wearing was responsible for such era-defining programmes
Geoffrey Bayldon might well have found fame earlier than he did. In 1963 he was offered the role of the first Doctor
Geoffrey Bayldon, best known as television's Catweazle and the Crowman in Worzel Gummidge, has died aged 93. His death on May 10
Belfast's Lyric Theatre has announced the first four writers to participate in its inaugural New Playwrights Programme. Seamus Collins, Erica Murray, Vittoria
The director general of Ireland's national broadcaster RTE has called for the creation of a €15 million (£12.6 million) development fund for
â€Rarely out of work in a career that spanned seven decades, Moray Watson found his way into the West End soon after
â€A familiar face on television for more than 50 years, the actor Ann Beach, whose career included time at Theatre Royal Stratford
