922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
Paul Shane, who rose to fame as the holiday camp comedian Ted Bovis in Jimmy Croft and David Perry's 1980s television comedy hit Hi-de-Hi! has died at the age of 72. The Rotherham-born miner…
Spending by overseas tourists in the UK hit a record high of just over £19 billion in the year to the end of March, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics. The...
An opera featuring a string quartet performing in four airborne helicopters, a dancing camel and 150 performers that was previously thought to be unstageable has received the opera and music…
Private sector support for arts and cultural organisations in England increased by 7.6% in 2012 to £660.5 million, but regional organisations saw their support falling as London's share o…
Sean Caffrey was part of a generation of actors that came out of Northern Ireland in the 1960s to find prominence on British television. He made his small-screen debut in Boy in the Smoke in…
Spare Tyre Theatre Company and Streetwise Opera are among the winners of the 2013 Arts & Business Awards celebrating partnerships between arts and cultural organisations and the business…
Channel 4 made a loss of £27 million in 2012 " its first in four years " despite exceeding its annual sales target of £1 billion for the second successive year. The "planned deficit" w…
Dermot McLaughlin, chief executive of the Temple Bar Cultural Trust in Dublin, has been suspended "with pay and without prejudice" following concerns about his role in offering €100,00…
An Irish Employment Appeals Tribunal has found against a director and company of actors who made a claim for lost earnings against Dublin's Tivoli Theatre following the early closure of thei…
If anyone working in British theatre over the past half-century could claim to have been a renaissance man, it was surely Patrick Garland, whose multifaceted life included spells as a poet, …
Digital Theatre, the company that provides filmed theatre and opera productions on demand, has signed a deal with YouTube enabling the video site to offer paid access to its content. The mov…
Richard Wakely, the former managing director of the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, has been announced as the new director of the Belfast Festival at Queen's. Wakely brings with him to Northern Irela…
A festival focusing on and for people aged 60 and over is to be launched in June by the Belfast-based multi-artform company Kaleidoscope, in a partnership with the city's Waterfont Hall. The…
Planned events in Derry-Londonderry's City of Culture programme are under threat of cancellation following lower than expected income from sponsorship and ticket sales. The disappointing fig…
Four audience members have been injured in a pepper spray attack in Dublin's Tivoli Theatre when a man jumped on stage and started using the chemical repellent without warning. The attack oc…
The four-year-long UK-wide Cultural Olympiad marking London's hosting of the Olympic and Paralympic Games in 2012 attracted an audience of 43.4 million " 25.8 million outside of the capital …
Four in ten people think UK businesses have a duty to support the arts sector through corporate sponsorshop and more than a third say wealthy individuals should offer more financial support …
The Edinburgh Fringe Festival has signed a new three-year sponsorship deal with Deuchars IPA that extends a partnership begun in 2010 to the end of the annual event's 2015 season. The new ar…
Digital Theatre has created the first dedicated on-demand television channel providing access to filmed theatre productions in a partnership with telecoms provider TalkTalk. The Digital Thea…
Circus Space, the UK's national centre for circus arts, is to receive £600,000 over the next three years following a pledge of support by the American philanthropist Aileen Getty. The don…
With a private fortune estimated at £825 million, Cameron Mackintosh is the highest-ranking creative talent listed in this year's Sunday Times Rich List. Mackintosh added £100 million …
Two very different Irish-themed projects within a year of each other gave the character actor Milo O'Shea the breakthrough he had been hankering after for almost 30 years. As the cuckolded L…
Director Patrick Garland has died at the age of 78. A statement released by his wife, actress Alexandra Bastedo, said he died in Worthing Hospital on Saturday April 20, following a long illn…
Norman Collier was a leading light in the generation of comics who learnt their trade on the often gruelling Northern club circuit and later found fame on television in the 1970s. More famil…
As a founding member of psychedelic pioneers Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers found himself ahead of his time and at odds with himself. Disenchanted with the limelight and despite the band's succes…
