922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
A founder member of Belfast's Lyric Theatre, Sam McCready was the invigorating renaissance man of Northern Ireland's theatre scene as it battled
Sylvia Kay was a familiar television face during the heyday of studio-based television drama in the 1960s and 1970s and went on
Sidonie Darrell " known as Sidi " made her stage debut at the age of three and went on to become a
David Ponting presented his one-man show Dylan Thomas, the Man and the Myth, more than 700 times on both sides of the
Time and talent thrust Albert Finney into the vanguard of a new generation of British actors on stage and screen. Drawn from
Clive Swift will be best remembered as the henpecked husband to Patricia Routledge’s painfully snobbish wife Hyacinth Bucket (“pronounced Bouquet!”) in Roy
If any producer could claim to have had the Midas touch, it was Duncan C Weldon. Responsible for more than 700 classic
Tributes have been paid to the theatre producer and former administrator Duncan C Weldon who has died at the age of 77.
On her website, Jennie Buckman described herself as "acting coach, playwright, activator", that last epithet pointing to her increasing engagement with political
As Battery Sergeant-Major Williams in David Croft and Jimmy Perry's It Ain't Half Hot Mum, Windsor Davies' booming voice could be heard
Born in British Guiana (now Guyana), Thomas Baptiste came to London in 1950 to study agriculture but instead became a leading figure
When she made her London stage debut in 1970, Carol Channing came trailing glory as a Tony award-winning Broadway veteran of 20
If Bernard Lloyd never achieved the celebrity of some of his peers, it wasn't for the lack of exposure or ability. A
Barbara Kirby came late to acting, leaving behind a promising career in the Metropolitan Police as an executive officer in internal investigations
Michael Wild was the nearly man of British musical theatre in a career that saw him produce more than 40 such works.
A popular, instantly recognised face on the streets of his native Dublin, Jer O'Leary was admired as much for his political activism
Johnny Hart, who has died aged 75, learned magic from a library book and went on to become the Magic Circle's first
More than 300 Irish actors, writers and directors have signed a letter to Dublin's Abbey Theatre, accusing its current leadership team of
Guy Hutchins was a writer and storyteller whose work for young audiences explored generational and inter-cultural issues using masks, mime, puppets, dance
Comedy doyenne June Whitfield was a stage actor of considerable promise before finding fame working alongside a veritable who's who of British
Ralph Koltai, who has died at the age of 94, was the most influential stage designer in British theatre in the second
A prolific writer, Janet Paisley was an accomplished poet, novelist and playwright who won the Peggy Ramsay award in 1996 for her
Having worked with Alan Ayckbourn at the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, on My Very Own Story in 1993 and again in the
Having shown herself to be a classical actor of promise with the Bristol Old Vic and Old Vic in the first years
As the novelist Jack Sugden newly returned home to take over the eponymous Emmerdale Farm in ITV's pioneering lunchtime soap, Andrew Burt
