922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
Lesley Fitz-Simons was a prominent face on daytime television during her 20-year, 118-episode residency as the melodrama-afflicted Sheila Ramsay in STV's long-running serial Take the High Ro…
Arts Council England and national tourist board VisitEngland have announced a new partnership aimed at boosting cultural tourism. The three-year arrangement will see the two organisations co…
Peter Mountain's early musical career was fraught with challenges that required determination and courage as well as talent. Born into a musical family, he secured a scholarship to the Royal…
With a lifetime spent working for the BBC and an impeccable track record in current affairs, Alasdair Milne was the first producer to be appointed as the Corporation's director general in 19…
Arts and cultural organisations within the City of London, the capital's financial and business centre, generated £225 million of net value to the Square Mile in 2011/12 and supported mor…
BBC television and radio shows have triumphed in a public vote to find the best comedy programmes of 2012 organised by website comedy.co.uk. In all, the BBC lifted 12 of the 14 available awa…
Belfast's Lyric Theatre is to present three world premieres and see the return of Simon Callow to the city where he began his acting career in its newly announced spring/summer season progra…
A former Welsh National Opera principal oboist has been awarded £73,000 compensation by an industrial tribunal which found he had been unfairly dismissed by the company after a long-runni…
The submission process to find the UK's second City of Culture in 2017 has been launched today by arts minister Ed Vaizey. The announcement comes just days after Derry-Londonderry officially…
Live theatre online rental and downloads distributor Digital Theatre has secured £750,000 investment from the Ingenious Ventures Media Opportunities Fund, the private equity division oper…
John Carol Case's contribution to English vocal music over the past half-century and more extended well beyond the 21 years he sang in the Bach Choir's annual performance of the St Matthew P…
As the larger than life head of Scotland's oldest actors' agency, Pat Lovett acquired a deserved reputation as a straight-talking champion and protector of actors and their interests to beco…
Few British composers ranged so widely or so freely across generic boundaries as Richard Rodney Bennett. Equally adept and at home in the concert hall, cinema, on television and in the cabar…
Six leading benefactors of the arts have been awarded the Prince of Wales' Medal for Arts Philanthropy in a ceremony in London today. Launched in 2008, the medals recognise individuals who h…
A new report on the use of digital technology to boost fundraising and encourage philanthropy in the arts sector has been published by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport. Democratis…
The number of philanthropic donations to charitable causes worth £1 million or more reached their highest level in five years during 2010/11, although their overall value has fallen, a…
In 1974, John Hefin created the drama Pobol y Cwm (People of the Valley) with the playwright Gwenlyn Parry. Originally broadcast on BBC Wales and subsequently on S4C, almost four decades lat…
The UK's film and television industries are to benefit from a new £6 million investment in training announced by chancellor of the exchequer George Osborne in yesterday's Autumn Statement…
Theatres in London's West End are set to benefit from a new coach parking scheme introduced by Westminster City Council. Space for 24 new coach bays have been created in Kingsway within metr…
The son and grandson 
of comics, Clive Dunn was to find fame himself in comedy in the unlikely guise of a doddering veteran of the Sudan and the Great War turned butcher who patriotica…
Robert Poulton's standing as a stalwart of the contemporary British opera scene acknowledged only his profile as one of the most popular and dependable singers of his generation. The descrip…
As one half of the perpetually sparring Duckworths in Coronation Street, Bill Tarmey created one of primetime television's most popular onscreen partnerships with Liz Dawn for more than thre…
Actor Bill Tarmey, who played Jack Duckworth in Coronation Street for 31 years, has died at the age of 71. According to a statement released by his family, he passed away yesterday morning i…
AEG Live has been awarded the contract to operate live concerts in London's Hyde Park following Live Nation's decision to withdraw from the bidding process. The decision by the venue's manag…
The opera singer Robert Poulton has been killed in a car crash in Sussex on October 30. He had been due to perform in Glyndebourne Opera's touring production of Rusalka at the Theatre Royal,…
