922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
A leading light in Scotland's thriving amateur choir scene, Jean Reid Graham was herself an admired soprano whose stewardship of the West Dumbartonshire-based Dalvait Singers spanned four de…
Mel Smith found fame as the deadpan, jug-faced straight man to Rowan Atkinson, Gryff Rhys Jones and Pamela Stephenson in the now classic Not the Nine O'Clock News. He cemented his place in t…
Glyndebourne Festival Opera saw box office income rise to record levels in 2012 with almost 96% of all available seats sold generating £15.5 million. The figure was equivalent to nearly t…
ITV saw group revenues rise by 2% to £1.3 billion in the first six months of 2013, as the commercial broadcaster's fortunes continued to improve under chief executive Adam Crozier. The im…
The BBC's commercial division, BBC Worldwide, returned substantially less money to the Corporation in 2012/13 than in the previous year despite seeing sales increase 2.8% to £1.1 billion.…
The second youngest of six sisters, five of whom found fame towards the end of the 1970s as the unabashedly middle-of-the-road pop act the Nolans, Bernie Nolan was also the second to leave t…
Actor Anna Wing, best known as EastEnders' vinegar-tongued matriarch Lou Beale, has died at the age of 98. According to her agent, Wing passed away on July 7. A graduate of Croydon Drama Sch…
Kris Nelson has been announced as the new director of the annual Dublin Fringe Festival. A Montreal-based producer and curator, he replaces Rosie Goan who is departing after five years manag…
The Old Vic has reported a much improved year in 2012, turning in a loss of £120,000 compared to a deficit of almost £1.7 million in the year before. The improved figures came despite …
Reports that the Ambassador Theatre Group was to be put up for sale by principal shareholder Exponent Private Equity have been denied by ATG. Claims that Exponent were planning to sell off A…
A stalwart of concert hall and opera house " for which he amassed a repertoire of more than 100 roles " for much of the latter half of the last century, baritone Thomas Hemsley came...
Ticketmaster, the world's largest online ticket retailer, has announced further expansion in Europe with the launch of a branded wesbite platform in Austria. The move comes just days after o…
Northern Ireland's culture minister Caral Ni Chuilin has been injured after being struck by a police land rover during a protest over a contentious Loyalist march in north Belfast. The incid…
Just three years after moving to the UK in 1974, Richard LeParmentier found himself in the first Star Wars film, playing a fascist space admiral who makes the nearly fatal mistake of critici…
Tall, slender with an aquiline nose, glinting eyes and a merry but menacing smile, Aubrey Woods was a natural and noticeable figure on stage and screen in a career that spanned five decades.…
To many of the fans who sustained a career that last year marked its 50th anniversary, Graham Walker was the linchpin of the Grumbleweeds, the comedy band that learned its trade on the North…
Engagement with the arts and culture is to be included for the first time as one of the measures used by government to calculate the UK's sense of well-being. The Office for National Statist…
The UK's entertainment and media market is expected to be worth £65.5 billion by 2017 with digital revenues driving growth of more than a fifth, a new report by analysts PricewaterhouseCo…
London's Royal Albert Hall has reported a record year for business in 2012 with operating income growing 4.3% to £16.8 million to produce an operating surplus of £4.5 million. The grad…
It wasn't just Steve Martland's never-changing fashion sense " jeans, Dr Martens and flat-top haircut " that earned him the dubious nickname of "the bad boy of classical music". His sound wa…
Graham Walker, co-founder of comedy band The Grumbleweeds, has died at the age of 68. Originally a two-piece band (with co-founder Robin Colvill) offering comedy songs and impressions, The G…
As the eternally disappointed, perpetually thwarted comedian Ted Bovis, Paul Shane was the grit in the oyster of Jimmy Perry and David Croft's Hi-de-Hi, set in a provincial seaside holiday c…
James Cameron, whose film credits include Titanic and Avatar, is to direct a worldwide broadcast of Swan Lake from the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg in what is being described as "the f…
Eddie Braben, the writer who provided comedy duo Morecambe and Wise with some of ther most famous sketches, has died at the age of 82. The Liverpool-born writer passed away earlier today (Ma…
A record-breaking annual spend of almost £7 billion on the National Lottery's portfolio of games saw donations to the arts growing to £390 million in the year to the end of March. The …
