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Actor Sean McKee, best known for his role as Jamie Henderson in the Channel 4 series Brookside, has died at the age
More than 30 of Northern Ireland's leading arts organisations have been told to plan for additional spending cuts of up to 10%
Few British performers have straddled the worlds of pop music, prime-time television and pantomime with such unaffected, easy-going aplomb as Cilla Black.
Last seen on stage in Polly Stenham's Hotel at the National Theatre in 2014, Tom Beard was an actor in his prime.
Robin Phillips, a former Royal Shakespeare Company director and ex-artistic director of the Stratford Festival Theatre in Ontario, has died at the
The immediate future of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland has been secured with a £300,000 grant from
Enda Walsh's first opera and the Irish premiere of National Theatre hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will
Theodore Bikel, who created the role of Captain von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, has died
As artistic director of Glasgow's Citizens and Leicester's Haymarket theatres, Michael Meacham played a significant role in raising the profile and standing
Elizabeth MacLennan's comfortable childhood in Glasgow and privileged education was far removed from the attitudes and ambitions of 7:84, the radical socialist
For successive generations of British television audiences from the early 1960s to the middle of the 1980s, Val Doonican presented a softer,
Val Doonican, a mainstay of television light entertainment from the 1960s to the mid 1980s, has died at the age of 88.
As niche markets go, championing forgotten music theatre gems and courtly masques of the English Baroque was territory ripe for revisiting when
As the dapper, unflappable and bowler-hatted John Steed, Patrick Macnee became one of the most recognisable and iconic actors of his generation,
Jill Hyem was an actress and writer who co-created the popular radio serial Waggoner's Walk and later became a prominent television writer,
Patrick Macnee, best known for playing John Steed in The Avengers, has died aged 93. His death yesterday (June 25) at his
Record audience numbers and box office receipts boosted the Royal Opera House's income by 12% to £125.7 million, its annual report reveals.
Ron Moody, best known for his performance of Fagin in Lionel Bart's Oliver!, has died at the age of 91. A latecomer
A stalwart of Scottish theatre for more than 30 years, Jake D'Arcy found wider fame in a string of comedies, notably as
Belfast's newest theatre and arts space could be forced to close just three years after opening if it fails to secure £1
Christina Reid was a leading light among a small group of Northern Irish playwrights who emerged in the 1980s to document the
Richard Johnson, a member of the inaugural Royal Shakespeare Company, has died at the age of 87. His death on June 6Â after
Terry Sue-Patt was the first pupil to be seen onscreen in the BBC's hugely popular school serial Grange Hill. As the small
A popular and highly regarded stalwart of theatre in the north-east of England, Jackie Fielding's association with the Mill Dam theatre in
A regular face on television, often as a figure of stern authority, Peter Howell was also a more varied figure on stage
