922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
Ireland's national theatre company, the Dublin-based Abbey Theatre, has announced a partnership with the National University of Ireland Galway to make its historic 109-year-old archive avail…
Belfast’s Titanic Studios has opened two new film and television production studios at a cost of £8.3 million. The new stages add an additional 42,000 sq ft to the existing 7…
Promotion of the UK's first City of Culture has been thrown into disarray after Derry City Council seized part-control of the company charged with running the year-long event. The council ha…
Share trading in the Music Festival Group, the Vince Power-owned promoter of summer music festivals, has been suspended as the company prepares to enter administration.The post Vince Power&#…
Share trading in the Music Festival Group, the Vince Power-owned promoter of summer music festivals, has been suspended as the company prepares to enter administration.
Global entertainment, music and sports giant AEG is under threat of being broken up following billionaire owner Philip Anschutz's announcement that the conglomerate is for sale.
Comic Jimmy Tarbuck has led the tributes to Max Bygraves following the legendary entertainer's death at home in Australia at the age of 89.
Actor-turned-playwright Abbie Spallen is to succeed David Ireland as the Lyric Theatre Belfast's new writer-in-residence.
The Tony Award-winning American playwright and librettist David Henry Hwang has been announced as the recipient of theatre's richest prize, the biennial $200,000 Steinberg Distinguished Play…
This year's Manchester Comedy Festival has been cancelled and the future of the 11-year-old event seems uncertain following the withdrawal of funding by Manchester City Council.
Belfast's £18 million city-centre Metropolitan Arts Centre has announced an adaptation of Oliver Jeffers' The Incredible Book Eating Boy as part of its first autumn season.
The Arts Council of Northern Ireland is to provide funding of £150,000 to help the region's performers and companies take their work to international audiences.
Ireland's capital city is to be the focus of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, the first to be programmed by artistic director Willie White.
Arts Council England is to provide £750,000 to support English arts companies wishing to collaborate with organisations in Derry/Londonderry during the city's tenure as the UK's first …
The actor, director and writer Victor Spinetti has died at the age of 82 from pancreatic cancer.
The HMV Group has announced the £32 million sale of leading London concert and comedy venue, the Hammersmith Apollo, to Stage C, which is jointly owned by subsidiaries of the American …
New productions by Field Day Theatre Company and Hofesh Shechter have been announced as part of Derry/Londonderry's UK City of Culture celebrations in 2013.
The winners of the 33rd Arts & Business Awards "offer a blueprint to a new generation of engagement" between arts organisations and supporters from the business sector, claim organisers of t…
Belfast's Lyric Theatre has been recognised for its outstanding contribution to tourism during its first year of operations in the newly announced Northern Ireland Tourism Awards.
Director Peter Hall, actor Laurence Olivier and playwright Harold Pinter are among the names included on a BBC Radio 4 list of figures who "have had a significant impact on lives in these is…
Sir Roy Shaw, secretary general of the Arts Council of Great Britain during one of its most turbulent periods, has died at the age of 93.
Michael Ockwell has been announced as Dennis Hall's successor as chief executive at the Mayflower Theatre, Southampton.
Dublin's Abbey Theatre is to close for nine weeks during the summer following the discovery of asbestos in its main auditorium.
A former finance director and head of IT at the Royal Academy of Music have been charged with stealing more than £630,00 between them in unrelated deceptions.
Arts Council England spent more than £588 million of public money in support of the arts in 2010/11 - down from £625 million in 2009/10 - according to its newly published annual …
