A £4 million concert space built to house concerts during Derry-Londonderry's City of Culture celebrations is to be demolished in January at a cost of nearly £450,000. The decision to …
Plans have been revealed for a new £12 million Performing Arts and Technology Innovation Centre in Northern Ireland. Funded by the Department for Employment and Learning, the 3,650 square…
The first British production of a new musical based on the hit 1970s television show Happy Days has launched an appeal for £250,000 from private investors through crowdfunding platform Se…
The body managing Derry-Londonderry's City of Culture programme has been rocked by a third resignation from its governing board in less than a month. Ana Leddy, a former head of radio for Ir…
Funding for Ireland's arts sector has been cut by 7% in the country's newly-announced Budget for 2014. The higher-than-inflation fall marks the sixth successive year of cuts in arts funding …
Hailed by Ireland's minister for arts Jimmy Deenihan as "the pre-eminent stage actress of her generation and beloved of theatre audiences", Susan Fitzgerald's long association with Dublin's …
Few broadcasters straddled the worlds of pop music and politics with the same convivial ease, elegance and apparent effortlessness that distinguished the near 60-year career on radio and tel…
Best known for his eminently singable compositions for church choirs, Peter Aston was also a much-admired conductor, teacher and musicologist, writing widely on music from the 16th to the 19…
The son of slot machine inventor William Bryan, George Bryan developed Drayton Manor, Staffordshire, from a dilapidated military training base built on the site of the former home of prime m…
An enthusiastic amateur actor with the Dumbarton People's Theatre, Robert Trotter made the transition on to the professional stage via national service in the Royal Navy and teaching, eventu…
Members of the cast and crew of a Northern Irish theatre company were arrested at a Belfast airport earlier this week following the discovery of live ammunition in their luggage. Twelve bull…
Theatre was the third most popular attraction for audiences in Northern Ireland over the past year according to figures newly released by the Department of Culture, Arts and Leisure. The ann…
As principal bass with English National Opera for a decade and a half following his 1980 debut in Aida, Richard Angas was a popular and potent force on the stage of the London Coliseum. Duri…
Originally an organ student at Ely Cathedral and subsequently a choral scholar at King's College, Cambridge, John Whitworth was a pioneering British countertenor at the centre of the re-emer…
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland and Belfast City Council have partnered to launch a new three-year funding scheme worth £900,000 aimed at supporting collaborations between cultural o…
Robert Robson, artistic director of the Lowry arts centre in Salford, died suddenly on Friday (September 6) the age of 58. A former artistic director of Cumbernauld Theatre, director of Glas…
David Frost was 24 when he found fame in 1962 as the host of television's pioneering satirical review programme That Was The Week That Was. Impeccably calm and confident in front of a camera…
As the cantankerous Cockney matriarch Lou Beale in EastEnders, Anna Wing stamped a dour authenticity on a programme that began with the discovery of a dead body and rarely allowed itself to …
Nobel laureate poet and playwright Seamus Heaney died this morning at the age of 74. Heaney died in the Blackrock Clinic in Dublin at 7.30am shortly before he was due to undergo an operation…
Actor and director Gerard Murphy has died from prostate cancer at the age of 52. His agent Lynda Ronan said he died at home yesterday after "battling courageously with cancer for two and a h…
David Howard's later behind-the-scenes career eclipsed onstage achievements that included admired solo roles in a seven-year spell " at the direct invitation of Ninette de Valois " with the …
The Brighton Philharmonic Orchestra has avoided closure and the cancellation of its 2013/14 season after a public appeal for funds led to pledges of more than £72,000 in less than two wee…
The bass singer Richard Angas, best known for his frequent appearances in the title role of Jonathan Miller's much-revived production of The Mikado for English National Opera, has died aged …
German ticketing giant CTS Eventim, Europe's leading online and call-centre entertainment ticket retailer, saw group revenues increase by 21.6% to €312.3 million (£266.8 million) in…
Foreign visitor numbers and the amount they spent in the UK reached their highest levels in five years during the first six months of 2013, according to new figures released by the Office fo…