922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
As the indulgent mother in the Oxo commercials that ran for 16 years from 1983, Lynda Bellingham became one of the most familiar faces on television. The familial jollity of the 30-second dr…
Belfast's Grand Opera House is to review an access scheme for disabled customers, following evidence that it is being abused by people pretending to have disabilities. Launched in September …
Mark Shenton, former theatre critic of the Sunday Express, has lost his employment tribunal against the paper for unfair dismissal and sexual discrimination. The tribunal ruled that Shenton …
Actor and broadcaster Lynda Bellingham has died less than a month after revealing she had decided to refuse chemotherapy treatment for colon cancer. A statement released by her agent Sue Lat…
The son of Gypsy-peasant stock, Yuri Lyubimov stood at the centre of Russia's theatrical life for much of the second half of the last century. As founder, in 1964, of the Moscow-based Tagank…
British talent and programmes dominate the newly announced nominations for this year's International Emmy Awards, with Olivia Colman up for best actress for her turn in Broadchurch. In total…
For a time in the 1970s, hardly a week went by without Lynsey de Paul's music being heard on radio and television. One of the most popular songwriters in her bubblegum and glam-rock heyday, …
The Soho Theatre is facing a substantial fine after pleading guilty to two charges under health and safety  legislation for an accident that left a stagehand paralysed for life. The incid…
In an age when female presenters were conspicuously rare on radio, Sheila Tracy made broadcasting history when she became the first woman newsreader on Radio 4 in 1974. By then she had been …
The National Theatre generated record-breaking income of £100 million in 2013/14, with ticket sales from NT Live screenings to cinemas at home and abroad increasing 179% from £2.4 mill…
Ian Price was that rarest and luckiest of actors, one who was seldom out of work until illness forced an early end to a busy theatre and television career. Born in Penarth, South Wales, afte…
Graham Theakston will be best remembered for his gripping direction of Paula Milne's 1995 drama serial The Politician's Wife. Starring Juliet Stevenson as the loyal spouse who discovers her …
London's Southbank Centre is set to receive £4.9 million from the Heritage Lottery Fund towards a planned £25 million repair and maintenance programme. The announcement of the "earmark…
Together with Stanley Baxter, Angus Lennie formed one of the great pantomime dame partnerships of the last century and became the stuff of Scottish theatre legend. The easy, reflex reciproci…
Dublin's Bord Gais Energy Theatre has been sold for €28 million (£22 million) to a husband-and-wife team, who are believed to have outbid organisations including Live Nation and Amb…
Donald Sinden was part of Britain's theatrical landscape for more than six decades. He made a distinguished contribution to Shakespearean theatre and boasted one of the most impressive lists…
The Scottish comedian turned actor Angus Lennie has died at the age of 84. The Glasgow-born performer began as a comic on the variety circuit before making the transition into acting. In the…
Born into a showbusiness family, Bill Kerr made his stage debut in his native South Africa before he was out of nappies. More than eight decades later, he was still performing. In the interv…
John Bardon, best known for his 15-year spell as Jim Branning in EastEnders, has died at the age of 75. His death follows a long period of illness in the aftermath of a severe stroke…
Donald Sinden, a star of stage and screen for more than six decades, has died at the age of 90 following a long struggle with cancer. His death was confirmed in a statement by his…
Owen McCafferty has been appointed playwright-in-residence at the Lyric in Belfast. The Belfast-born writer is the third playwright to take up the position since the Lyric re-opened in 2011 …
Clare Cathcart's entry on the ulsteractors.com website begins with a now poignant assessment of the County Fermanagh-born actress as "cogent but undervalued". A graduate of the University of…
Clare Cathcart, the Northern Irish actress known for her roles in television's Call the Midwife, Doctors and New Tricks, has died at the age of 48. Her death at home in Brighton yesterday wa…
If the film career promised by her sparkling debut in the 1949 comedy Whisky Galore! never quite materialised, Gabrielle Blunt found theatre and television more productive arenas throughout …
Sandy Wilson's reputation as a leading popular British composer and lyricist rests firmly on two musicals: his phenomenally successful pastiche of the 1920s, The Boy Friend; and Valmouth, ad…
