922 stories by "Michael Quinn"
Belfast City Council has thrown its weight between a campaign calling for increased arts funding in Northern Ireland. A motion tabled by
Together with his sister, Suma, Johnny Lamonte became one of the most popular speciality acts on the post-war variety circuit, a master
Stephen Doncaster's influence on British theatre design extended beyond his admired tenures in Pitlochry and Nottingham, and at the Royal Court in
Belfast’s Lyric Theatre has expanded its new playwrights programme to include six writers in the scheme’s second year. Launched in 2017 with
William 'Bill' Perrie came late and by accident to theatre and dance, but he went on to become a soloist with the
Peter Byrne's early ambition was to be a heavyweight tragic actor but, as he told The Stage: "I realised I was too
In a generation of Irish playwrights who achieved international recognition by chronicling a country in rapid, often convulsive, transition from centuries-old entrenchment
With a career in the military, the diplomatic service, as deputy controller of the National Film Theatre and as a novelist behind
In later years, Edith MacArthur was regarded as the grande dame of Scottish theatre. It was a position she also enjoyed with
Born in Edmonton, Middlesex, Pamela Sholto demonstrated an early ability in dance. She studied ballet with the Russian prima ballerina Lydia Lopokova
By the time he had left school, John Stride had already played Macbeth, Antony and Hamlet. His early promise " spotted at
Kevin Colson was a star in his native Australia before he came to London in the mid-1960s. He left behind a burgeoning
Alex Beckett will be best remembered as the inept PR executive Barney in two biting BBC satires on institutional incompetence, Twenty Twelve,
Neil Shand was one of the most successful comedy writers of the past half-century, the joker of choice for successive generations of
As one of the co-founders of the Wakefield Tricycle Company and its subsequent incarnation as the Tricycle Theatre in Kilburn, north London,
When Dennis 'Slim' Ramsden announced his retirement (prematurely, as it proved) in 2001, The Stage hailed him as "one of the West
Arts organisations in Northern Ireland have been left reeling by new funding cuts that will see almost half of the province's regularly-funded
By the age of nine, Bill Maynard was earning more than his father performing in clubs and on the variety circuit. Before
In the largely unsung role of costume supervisor, Stephanie Arditti " who described her job as "getting the designs off the paper,
Originally trained as a dancer, winning a scholarship to the Royal Academy of Dance aged nine and making her professional debut at
Regarding himself as a "jobbing actor", John Hart Dyke was seldom out of work in a long career in which he forged
A prank birthday present of ballet lessons led Scott Ambler into a career in which he forged a memorable partnership with choreographer
A familiar face on television for more than three decades, Carmel McSharry was an actor of considerable charm and capability with a
Michael Green was one of the great, if now largely overlooked, English humorists whose The Art of Coarse Acting proved a wickedly
Jo Beddoe was an unsung champion of regional theatre who steered Scotland's 7:84, Liverpool's Everyman and Playhouse theatres and London’s Battersea Arts
