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Thursday, November 12, 2015

Obituary: Petrus Bertschinger by Michael Quinn

Petrus Bertschinger trained in stage and production management at the Central School of Speech and Drama and after graduating in 1984 quickly

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Wednesday, November 4, 2015

Obituary: David Drew by Michael Quinn

David Drew’s 56-year-long association with the Royal Ballet was one of the longest in British dance. Born in London, his interest in

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Tuesday, November 3, 2015

Obituary: Peter Baldwin by Michael Quinn

Peter Baldwin will be best, and fondly, remembered as the bumbling, pompous travelling salesman Derek Wilton, one half of a quintessential Coronation

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Wednesday, October 28, 2015

Peter Baldwin dies, aged 82 by Michael Quinn

Peter Baldwin, a familiar face to a generation of television viewers as bumbling salesman Derek Wilton in Coronation Street, has died aged

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Tuesday, October 27, 2015

Obituary: Richard Davies by Michael Quinn

In a television era unabashed at employing cultural and racial stereotypes for easy and often dubious humour, Richard Davies grew accustomed to

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Thursday, October 8, 2015

Northern Ireland’s arts woes deepen with new funding cuts by Michael Quinn

Prominent arts organisations in Northern Ireland are bracing themselves for further cuts, after the Arts Council of Northern Ireland suffered an 8%

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Wednesday, September 23, 2015

Obituary: Robin Phillips by Michael Quinn

In the late 1970s, Robin Phillips revitalised the Stratford Festival Theatre in Ontario, Canada, bringing to it more than a dash of

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Monday, September 21, 2015

Bill Kenwright Productions posts drop in income for second year running by Michael Quinn

Bill Kenwright’s production company has reported a drop in income for the second successive year, to £24.03 million in 2014. The 23.8%

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Wednesday, September 16, 2015

Roland Rees by Michael Quinn

As co-founder (with playwright Bernard Pomerance and director David Aukin) of Foco Novo, Roland Rees was a leading figure in fringe and

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Wednesday, September 9, 2015

Joy Beverley by Michael Quinn

Together with her younger twin sisters, Teddie and Babs, Joy Beverley formed one of the most enduring British entertainment acts of the

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Jack Gold by Michael Quinn

Jack Gold graduated from University College London in 1954 with two job interviews far removed from his newly acquired degree in law

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Thursday, September 3, 2015

Jack Thorne and Conor McPherson feature in Belfast International Arts Festival by Michael Quinn

Belfast’s newest arts festival is to launch with 11 stage premieres including Roysten Abel’s acclaimed The Kitchen from Indian company Can and

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Saturday, August 29, 2015

Michael Stroud by Michael Quinn

Michael Stroud’s first experience of performing was in the exotic location of Dar es Salaam in Tanzania, where he had been posted

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Friday, August 28, 2015

Stephen Lewis by Michael Quinn

Lambasted by pundits but loved by the public, On the Buses was one of the most successful television sitcoms of the 1970s,

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Monday, August 24, 2015

Obituary: David Nobbs by Michael Quinn

In The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, a caustic satire on the numbing routine of middle-class suburban life disguised as a

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Wednesday, August 19, 2015

Obituary: George Cole by Michael Quinn

In a remarkable career spanning nine decades, George Cole maintained a high-profile presence on stage despite the demands of film and television

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Monday, August 10, 2015

Reginald Perrin creator David Nobbs dies by Michael Quinn

Tributes have been paid to Reginald Perrin creator David Nobbs, who has died at the age of 80. Nobbs began his career

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Northern Ireland theatres face immediate 10% funding cut by Michael Quinn

Theatres in Northern Ireland have warned of job cuts and reduced output following proposals for a 10% cut to their funding. Concern

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Obituary: Jonathan Ollivier by Michael Quinn

Jonathan Ollivier was one of the most expressive dancers of his generation, the imposing muscularity of his performances characterised by a distinctive

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Thursday, August 6, 2015

George Cole dies aged 90 by Michael Quinn

George Cole, who found fame as unscrupulous car dealer Arthur Daley in the hit television series Minder, has died at the age

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Wednesday, August 5, 2015

Brookside actor Sean McKee dies, aged 54 by Michael Quinn

Actor Sean McKee, best known for his role as Jamie Henderson in the Channel 4 series Brookside, has died at the age

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ACNI warns Ulster arts companies of extra cuts by Michael Quinn

More than 30 of Northern Ireland’s leading arts organisations have been told to plan for additional spending cuts of up to 10%

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Monday, August 3, 2015

Obituary: Cilla Black by Michael Quinn

Few British performers have straddled the worlds of pop music, prime-time television and pantomime with such unaffected, easy-going aplomb as Cilla Black.

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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Tom Beard by Michael Quinn

Last seen on stage in Polly Stenham’s Hotel at the National Theatre in 2014, Tom Beard was an actor in his prime.

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Tuesday, July 28, 2015

Tributes paid to former RSC director Robin Phillips by Michael Quinn

Robin Phillips, a former Royal Shakespeare Company director and ex-artistic director of the Stratford Festival Theatre in Ontario, has died at the

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Friday, July 24, 2015

£300k cash injection spells Happy Days for Beckett Festival by Michael Quinn

The immediate future of the Happy Days Enniskillen International Beckett Festival in Northern Ireland has been secured with a £300,000 grant from

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Thursday, July 23, 2015

Curious Incident premiere and Enda Walsh opera in Dublin Theatre Festival by Michael Quinn

Enda Walsh’s first opera and the Irish premiere of National Theatre hit The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time will

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015

Theodore Bikel dies, aged 91 by Michael Quinn

Theodore Bikel, who created the role of Captain von Trapp in the original Broadway production of The Sound of Music, has died

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Tuesday, July 14, 2015

Obituary: Michael Meacham by Michael Quinn

As artistic director of Glasgow’s Citizens and Leicester’s Haymarket theatres, Michael Meacham played a significant role in raising the profile and standing

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Tuesday, July 7, 2015

Obituary: Elizabeth MacLennan by Michael Quinn

Elizabeth MacLennan’s comfortable childhood in Glasgow and privileged education was far removed from the attitudes and ambitions of 7:84, the radical socialist

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Monday, July 6, 2015

Obituary: Val Doonican by Michael Quinn

For successive generations of British television audiences from the early 1960s to the middle of the 1980s, Val Doonican presented a softer,

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