922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
A stalwart of Scottish theatre, Sean Scanlan found fame on television as Shug, the affected Anglocentric uncle to Gregor Fisher's Glaswegian grotesque
Moving effortlessly between stage and screen, Christopher Morahan's 60-year career earned him a reputation as a writer's director. An often fierce figure
Tributes have been paid to the Irish actor and campaigner for disability rights Donal Toolan following his death at the age of
After his mother died when he was two, Parv Bancil moved from his native Tanzania to London with his father. The experience
Michael Bogdanov will be remembered as the director against whom the self-appointed morality campaigner Mary Whitehouse launched a venomous tirade in 1980
Tim Pigott-Smith's sudden death at the age of 70 has robbed British theatre of one of its most intelligent and intuitive actors.
When, at the height of his success in the 1970s, The Stage described Duggie Chapman as the "Delfont of the North", it
The son of German-Jewish parents who fled the Nazis to England at the outbreak of the Second World War, Michael Tuchner became
Although Jane Freeman will forever be associated with the redoubtable cafe owner Ivy in Roy Clarke's long-running The Last of the Summer
A fine singing voice and quick-witted stage presence honed by six shows per day at London's legendary Windmill Theatre took Barry Martin
A Yorkshire coal miner's son, sometime professional rugby league player, student of the Slade School of Fine Art and teacher, David Storey
Plans to create a "Greek style" open-air theatre in Dublin using stonework from the city's original Abbey Theatre building have been announced.
Tributes have been paid to the child actor turned leading variety promoter and producer Duggie Chapman, who died on April 1, a
John Forgeham carved something of a niche on television playing gruff, opinionated characters bolstered by machismo and exuding an alluring sense of
Ken Bennett-Hunter was one of the most experienced and well-respected figures in British theatre over the last half-century. Had he been an
The playwright and Booker prize-winning novelist David Storey has died aged 83. His death on March 27 was confirmed in a statement
Derek Walcott decided to become a poet at the age of eight and published his first poem at 14 " to find
A seasoned performer on stage and screen, Tony Haygarth was a character actor of enormous resource and variety, whose lived-in face and
Ken Bennett-Hunter, a former president of the Theatrical Management Association and long-time contributor to The Stage, has died at the age of
The Nobel Prize-winning poet and playwright Derek Walcott has died at the age of 87. His death earlier today (March 17) at
Drama programmes dominated the BBC's iPlayer catch-up service in February 2017, taking a clean sweep of all top-20 places in the list
A singer-songwriter and pianist who eventually became a priest, Peter Skellern's most famous song was the 1972 hit single You're a Lady.
Tributes have been paid to actor Tony Haygarth following his death on March 10, aged 72. His death was confirmed by his
One of the most innovative directors of his generation, Philip Saville was responsible for a number of television firsts and the era-defining
An aspiring journalist who turned her theatregoing "hobby" into a successful career as one of the leading casting directors of her generation,
