922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
Bass player Rick Huxley co-founded the Dave Clark Five in 1958 and remained with them until they disbanded 12 years later. At their peak, the group had enough pop clout to knock the Beatles …
What a difference a year makes. Rewind to the start of 2012 and the fear of what lay ahead " the double whammy of the Diamond Jubilee and the Olympic and Paralympic Games and their...
Few are the actors whose passing is marked by the dimming of lights in the West End. Richard Griffiths was one of those, the tribute placing him in a select pantheon whose numbers include Ol…
Frank Thornton's ability to turn stiff-backed pomposity to exquisite comic effect gave him an enviable profile in two long-running television comedies that kept him in public view for half a…
Actor Milo O'Shea has died in New York after a short illness at the age of 86. Early success on stage in his native Dublin followed him to the UK where he made a notable...
Simon Callow talks to Michael Quinn about the thrill of getting to the core of such an important figure in The Man Jesus and why he is excited to return to the city of Belfast where he gave …
Richard Griffiths, winner of Olivier and Tony awards and star of stage hit The History Boys, has died at the age of 65. His death followed complications arising from heart surgery at the Uni…
Responsible for scripting some of the most intelligent Hollywood films of the past four decades, Alan Sharp's writing career began on British television in 1963 with Funny Noises with Their …
Actor Clive Mantle has had a part of an ear bitten off in an attack in Newcastle in the early hours of Sunday morning. The incident occurred at 4.30am in a Travelodge hotel in the...
Variety was a defining characteristic of a career that took Robin Sachs from winning a prize for diction at RADA to fame on cult American television shows Babylon 5 and Buffy the Vampire Sla…
Kenny Ball was in the vanguard of the trad jazz boom that swept through Britain in the early 1960s. Together with Chris Barber and Acker Bilk, he forged a new sound and profile for jazz...
Frank Thornton, best known as Captain Peacock in the long-runnng televison comedy Are You Being Served?, has died at the age of 92. A statement issued by his agent said that he passed away a…
Bob Godfrey received his first Academy award nomination for his 1972 short Kama Sutra Rides Again, based on the ancient Sanskrit sex manual. Sex was a theme he returned to in 1980 with Dream…
Raymond Cusick was the cause of countless nightmares for generations of children he never met. In 1963, for the first series of what was to become a perennial teatime television favourite, h…
John Kerr was 23 when he won a Tony award for his performance as a troubled prep school student in Robert Anderson's Tea and Sympathy. It was his second gong in as many years, winning...
Belfast City Council is to increase its spending on the arts by 27% after agreeing a £4.1 million funding package for more than 50 companies and venues as part of a new three-year support…
For a generation of television viewers, Derek Batey is indelibly inked into their memories as the convivial host of the soft-centred marriage quiz Mr and Mrs. Sporting a sculpted blond bouff…
Gerry Hambling's death the day after film director Alan Parker received his BAFTA fellowship was a poignant coda to a career worthy of the man's finesse in sculpting films that offered as mu…
Gavin Wallace played several crucial roles over three decades in supporting and raising the profile of contemporary Scottish writers, most significantly as the head of literature in the Scot…
Eamon de Buitlear was a double pioneer in his native Ireland, establishing himself in the 1950s as a musician in the vanguard of the rediscovery of Irish traditional music, and, in the follo…
Billed as the 'Champagne Soprano', Lizbeth Webb managed the transition from wartime radio star and dance-band vocalist to the West End with all the sparkling elegance her sobriquet suggested…
Productions of plays by Tom Murphy have won five of the 13 categories in this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, with Druid Theatre Company's career-spanning trilogy " Conversations on…
Protests against the Royal Shakespeare Company's renewed partnership with energy giant BP are to continue, with organisers the Reclaim Shakespeare Company launching a public petition calling…
Energy giant BP has been announced as the project partner for the Royal Shakespeare Company's £5 ticket scheme for 16-25-year-olds. The partnership renews the relationship between the two…
Details of a new awards initiative for opera have been announced, with the inaugural prize-giving ceremony to be held in London on April 22. The International Opera Awards have been conceive…
