922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
In his 25-year stewardship of London's Open Air Theatre, David Conville transformed the venue into an essential fixture in the capital's theatre
Twenty years after its first outing at Belfast's Lyric Theatre, Paul Boyd's colourful helter-skelter ride down a rabbit hole into Wonderland returns
In his native Canada,Douglas Rain was revered as a classical actor of stature, having been a member of the founding company of
John Bluthal was known to successive generations of television viewers from the 1960s onwards for his appearances in Never Mind the Quality,
Brian Kirk's first theatre job, as a novice flyman at London's Palace Theatre in 1968 working on David Heneker's Stanley Baxter-starring musical
Ntozake Shange's For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf was only the second play by a black woman
Few figures championed regional theatre in Britain in the second half of the last half century so steadfastly or successfully as John
As the Royal Court Theatre's international director for more than 20 years, Elyse Dodgson introduced British audiences to writers and plays from
As the actor Rio Fanning and writer Michael Robartes, the son of Irish playwright AP Fanning led a double life " one
In a turbulent half-century, Belfast's Lyric Theatre has survived bombings, irate resignations and a costly rebuild. Michael Quinn looks at how the
Cicely Berry’s influence on the speaking of text, on the physicality of actors’ vocal performances and the central importance of a body-and-mind
A chance encounter and a small act of kindness reverberates in the lives of three women to transformative effect in Marie Jones'
Together with his writing partner Alan Simpson, Ray Galton was a titan of radio and television comedy with the era-defining Hancock's Half
When she moved to Scotland in 2005, the Brisbane-born dancer and choreographer Janis Claxton brought with her a formidable can-do attitude that
Dudley Sutton was lately famous as the tweed-suited, beret-wearing Tinker Dill, roguish sidekick to Ian McShane's antiques dealer Lovejoy for eight years
State support for the arts in the Republic of Ireland will reach its highest level in more than a decade in 2019,
The agent Janet Glass was a formidable but graceful champion of overlooked plays, agitating for new work, and a devoted, indefatigable defender
In the landmark 1976 adaptation of Robert Graves' I, Claudius, Sheila White was involved in one of British television's most controversial scenes
For a generation of television viewers, John Line will be remembered as the dashing Dr Andrew Shaw who set pulses racing in
With a career spanning six decades, Margaret D'Arcy, who has died at the age of 100, was the doyenne of Northern Irish
Best known as the villainous Servalan in Terry Nation's cult sci-fi classic Blake's 7 (1978-81) and eponymous monster in Hammer Horror's The
If Stephen Jeffreys' relationship with the West End was never quite what he deserved, fringe companies and regional venues were quick to
With a voice of sirenic silkiness, a permanent pout, eyes that enticed and a mane of mesmerising brunette hair, Fenella Fielding was
Liz Fraser will be best remembered as the dizzy blonde who appeared in various guises in the early Carry On films in
Female playwrights made up 28% of content by living writers at the National Theatre in 2017/18, despite the organisation’s ongoing target of
