922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
The son of an actress mother and playwright father, Maximilian Schell made his own acting debut at the age of three in one of his father's plays. Born in Austria but raised in Switzerland af…
London arts management consultancy Bonnar Keenlyside has been appointed by the Irish Arts Council to conduct a review of the Abbey Theatre's operations. The move follows the leaking of an in…
Philip Seymour Hoffman was best known to a wider audience as a screen actor of remarkable intensity and vividness. Nominated three times for a best supporting actor Academy award, he lifted …
Women account for more than three-quarters of the UK's arts sector workforce and more than half of all employees are aged 25-34, according to the results of a survey by the artsHub website. …
Three people have been arrested by West Yorkshire Police and a major inquiry is underway following allegations of significant fraudulent activity at the Leeds Grand Theatre and Opera House. …
Jimmy Fay has been announced as the Lyric Theatre, Belfast's first executive producer. The newly created role follows what theatre management have described as "an extensive review of operat…
A Northern Irish borough council has reversed its ban on the Reduced Shakespeare Company's The Bible: the Complete Word of God (Abridged), allowing scheduled performances in Newtownabbey's T…
A Northern Ireland theatre has cancelled performances of the Reduced Shakespeare Company's latest production, The Bible: The Complete Word of God (abridged) following protests by evangelical…
Mark Wigglesworth is to succeed Edward Gardner as music director of English National Opera from September 2015. The move follows Gardner's departure from the London Colisseum after more than…
The Abbey Theatre in Dublin is failing to meet expectations that its productions are of "world class" standard, an independent report has concluded. The damning assessment was made by a thre…
Alexandra Bastedo's final screen appearance in 2008 in two episodes of the BBC's perpetually grim soap opera EastEnders was the unlikeliest of swansongs for an actress who found fame as the …
Although perpetually associated with two of the most dim-witted characters ever to grace a British television sitcom, Roger Lloyd Pack was an actor of immeasurably greater intelligence, vers…
Nigerian-Irish playwright Bisi Adigun has been awarded €75,000 (£62,000) in Ireland's High Court over claims that he had been defamed in an article in the Sunday Tribune newspaper i…
Jimmy Hardwick, the long-serving pianist at favourite London theatreland restaurant, Joe Allen in Covent Garden, has died after a short illness at the age of 88. After playing on the restaur…
Roger Lloyd Pack, who became a household name as Trigger in Only Fools and Horses and as Owen Newitt in The Vicar of Dibley, has died aged 69. His death from pancreatic cancer on Wednesday...
Richard Brett, widely regarded as one of the most innovative and influential theatre engineers of his generation, has died at the age of 74. Diagnosed with lung cancer in 2012, his health ha…
For more than two decades, Claire Grove was one of the most imaginative and insightful producers in the BBC's radio drama department. Deftly balancing the popular and the serious, she was re…
Suffolk Coastal District Council has been criticised for spending £30,000 on Felixstowe's Spa Pavilion Theatre in the year since its withdrawal of funding forced the venue to close. A cou…
Limerick's year-long programme as Ireland's first national City of Culture has been thrown into disarray just days into its 2014 tenure with the loss of its chief executive, artistic directo…
With an A-list hinterland of comic talent signed to his Off the Kerb agency that he promoted with a relentless, often ruthless, efficiency in countless television programmes through his Open…
Long-running musical The Lion King was the most successful show on Broadway in 2013, taking almost $97 million (£58.7 million) in ticket sales in its 16th year on the Great White Way. The…
Stars of theatre, television and the concert hall have been recognised in a New Year honours list that sees choreographer Gillian Lynne and actors Penelope Keith and Angela Lansbury appointe…
A theatre director has been arrested in Paris after driving his car into the gates of the French president's official residence. Italian-born Attilio Maggiulli said he had deliberately crash…
Addison Cresswell, the agent and producer who was named the most powerful man in comedy last year, has died at the age of 53. With his company Off the Kerb, Cresswell represented many of the…
Increased performances and audience numbers together with a 71% increase in income from sponsorship and donations gave English National Opera a 12% boost in total income to just over £40 …
