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Dublin's Focus Theatre has gone dark on the eve of its 50th anniversary in May 2013.
A £180,000 award from the Big Lottery Fund is to be used to create six new performing groups in Northern Ireland aimed at involving participants aged 60 and over.
The Northern Ireland Executive has awarded an additional £12.6 million to organisers of next year's City of Culture programme in Derry/Londonderry.
The director of Northern Ireland's largest arts event, the Belfast Festival at Queen's, has resigned after less than six months in post.
America's leading weekly entertainment news publication Variety and its online operations are to be sold by current owners Reed Business Information.
Almost £8,000 owed to two actors by a leading Northern Irish talent agency has been recovered following a prosecution led by the Department for Employment and Learning.
A World Actors Forum originally planned to take place in Dublin in 2014 will now be staged in the city next year, Ireland's deputy prime minister Eamon Gilmore has revealed.
The songwriter Robert B Sherman has died at the age of 86.
Actor Philip Madoc has died at the age of 77.
Oxford University is to receive a £26 million donation to establish student scholarships in the humanities from Mica Ertegun, a New York-based interior designer and widow of Atlantic R…
Davy Jones, the British-born child actor-turned-pop star with The Monkees, has died at the age of 66.
Inaugural productions by two of Northern Ireland's leading theatre and opera companies have been recognised in the 2012 Irish Times Theatre Awards.
English National Opera is to launch a global online talent search for new composers, writers and filmmakers in an initiative seeking to "create the future of opera".
The Northern Ireland Assembly has given a one-year reprieve to the Laganside Arts Grant with a one-off cash injection of £250,000 less than a week after announcing it was to close in M…
Operating losses at the Cork Opera House almost trebled in 2010/11 to more than €825,000 (£692,000) following a drop of more than a fifth in revenues to €3.84 million (&pou…
David Kelly, one of Ireland's most recognisable and successful actors, has died at the age of 82.
Act Productions, co-producers of West End shows Legally Blonde the Musical and Flare Path, and Prosper Capital LLP have launched a new "innovative" theatre investment scheme.
EMI, the last of Britain's recording labels to be able to claim a global reach, is to be split up and sold in its 80th-anniversary year to French and Japanese competitors.
Ambassador Theatre Group has launched "the UK's biggest theatre membership scheme".
The Society of Ticket Agencies and Retailers has re-branded and re-launched its "industry kitemark" scheme to combat the problem of ticket fraud and rogue retailers.
Laurence Olivier Awards sponsor MasterCard has launched a new campaign offering its credit, debit and pre-paid card users "one of a kind experiences" and exclusive offers for London's theatr…
West End Theatre Bookings has been sold to Encore Tickets, the UK's largest independent ticket wholesaler, for £10.9 million by its Cheshire-based owners Holidaybreak.
