Michael Quinn
@quinnfreelance.bsky.social
Theatre director, writer and editor.
Booklet Editor: National Symphony Orchestra, Ireland;
Associate Writer/Obituaries Editor: @thestage.co.uk
Programme consultant: @porticoards.bsky.social.
Booklet Editor: National Symphony Orchestra, Ireland;
Associate Writer/Obituaries Editor: @thestage.co.uk
Programme consultant: @porticoards.bsky.social.
It's freezing inside, never mind Baby, It's Cold Outside. Day 2 of rehearsals with Mary McGurk, Brian Markey, Michelle Wiggins & Jade O'Neill – suffering for their art for Bright Umbrella Theatre at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from Dec. 16-Jan. 4. Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
November 25, 2025 at 11:43 PM
It's freezing inside, never mind Baby, It's Cold Outside. Day 2 of rehearsals with Mary McGurk, Brian Markey, Michelle Wiggins & Jade O'Neill – suffering for their art for Bright Umbrella Theatre at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from Dec. 16-Jan. 4. Tickets: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Eyes down for a read through of Baby, It's Cold Outside on Day 1 of rehearsals – with Michelle Wiggins, Brian Markey, Mary McGurk and Jade O'Neill – for Bright Umbrella Theatre. At Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16-January 4. Tickets available now at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
November 24, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Eyes down for a read through of Baby, It's Cold Outside on Day 1 of rehearsals – with Michelle Wiggins, Brian Markey, Mary McGurk and Jade O'Neill – for Bright Umbrella Theatre. At Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16-January 4. Tickets available now at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
There's much more to know and find out, but Paul McCartney's 'oral history' of Wings (edited by Ted Widmer) is a valuable addition alongside @allankozinn.bsky.social and Adrian Sinclair's @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social and @lucaperasi.bsky.social's various delvings to Macca's post-
The Beatles life.
The Beatles life.
November 16, 2025 at 11:16 PM
There's much more to know and find out, but Paul McCartney's 'oral history' of Wings (edited by Ted Widmer) is a valuable addition alongside @allankozinn.bsky.social and Adrian Sinclair's @mccartneylegacy.bsky.social and @lucaperasi.bsky.social's various delvings to Macca's post-
The Beatles life.
The Beatles life.
Four weeks to go until Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside – with MaryMcGurk, Brian Markey, Michelle Wiggins and Jade O'Neill for Bright Umbrella Theatre – opens at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre, running until January 4. Christmas treat tickets on sale at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
November 16, 2025 at 12:12 AM
Four weeks to go until Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside – with MaryMcGurk, Brian Markey, Michelle Wiggins and Jade O'Neill for Bright Umbrella Theatre – opens at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre, running until January 4. Christmas treat tickets on sale at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
More than delighted to have PR genius Rachael Harriott –
@rachaelharriottni.bsky.social – on the team for Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 4. Booking now open at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
@rachaelharriottni.bsky.social – on the team for Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 4. Booking now open at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
November 7, 2025 at 8:20 PM
More than delighted to have PR genius Rachael Harriott –
@rachaelharriottni.bsky.social – on the team for Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 4. Booking now open at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
@rachaelharriottni.bsky.social – on the team for Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 4. Booking now open at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Glad to have caught Nicola McCartney's Faust-ish from Big Telly at the Lyric, Belfast for @belfastfestival.bsky.social. Funny, imaginative and cleverly pointed, with Jo Donnelly superb and strong support from Chris Robinson, Emma Rose Creaner and Claire Lamont.
November 6, 2025 at 10:43 PM
Glad to have caught Nicola McCartney's Faust-ish from Big Telly at the Lyric, Belfast for @belfastfestival.bsky.social. Funny, imaginative and cleverly pointed, with Jo Donnelly superb and strong support from Chris Robinson, Emma Rose Creaner and Claire Lamont.
Gear, fab biography of @ringostarrmusic.bsky.social paints a satisfyingly more complex portrait of the 'cute' Beatle, Ringo (@newmodernbooks.bsky.social). Fresh interviews and Tom Doyle's gently pointed commentary add to the appeal in a valuable new addition for any The Beatles library.
November 5, 2025 at 12:43 AM
Gear, fab biography of @ringostarrmusic.bsky.social paints a satisfyingly more complex portrait of the 'cute' Beatle, Ringo (@newmodernbooks.bsky.social). Fresh interviews and Tom Doyle's gently pointed commentary add to the appeal in a valuable new addition for any The Beatles library.
Completing the wonderful cast for Brenda Murphy's seasonal comedy-drama, Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company is Jade O'Neill. Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Booking now at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
November 3, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Completing the wonderful cast for Brenda Murphy's seasonal comedy-drama, Baby, It's Cold Outside, for Bright Umbrella Theatre Company is Jade O'Neill. Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Booking now at: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Looking forward to working with the wonderful Michelle Wiggins as Sally in Brenda Murphy's laugh-out-loud drama, Baby, It's Cold Outside for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Early booking recommended: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
October 31, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Looking forward to working with the wonderful Michelle Wiggins as Sally in Brenda Murphy's laugh-out-loud drama, Baby, It's Cold Outside for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Early booking recommended: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Second up for Brenda Murphy's classic Christmas comedy with a twist, Baby, It's Cold Outside, is Brian Markey as Joe. A thrill to be directing for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Early booking recommended: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
October 29, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Second up for Brenda Murphy's classic Christmas comedy with a twist, Baby, It's Cold Outside, is Brian Markey as Joe. A thrill to be directing for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre from December 16 to January 3. Early booking recommended: ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Delighted to announce the first of four fabulous cast members – Mary McGurk as Patsy – in Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside – not every Christmas birth is what you expect! – for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre, Nov. 24–Jan. 3. Book now: www.ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
October 27, 2025 at 11:53 PM
Delighted to announce the first of four fabulous cast members – Mary McGurk as Patsy – in Brenda Murphy's Baby, It's Cold Outside – not every Christmas birth is what you expect! – for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre, Nov. 24–Jan. 3. Book now: www.ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrella
Ian McEwan's future-set, post-catastrophe What We Can Know
(@jonathancape.bsky.social) is darkly dazzling; a cautionary tale about "the Derangement" of the preoccupations of the here
and now while all around moves towards chaos and loss.
(@jonathancape.bsky.social) is darkly dazzling; a cautionary tale about "the Derangement" of the preoccupations of the here
and now while all around moves towards chaos and loss.
October 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Ian McEwan's future-set, post-catastrophe What We Can Know
(@jonathancape.bsky.social) is darkly dazzling; a cautionary tale about "the Derangement" of the preoccupations of the here
and now while all around moves towards chaos and loss.
(@jonathancape.bsky.social) is darkly dazzling; a cautionary tale about "the Derangement" of the preoccupations of the here
and now while all around moves towards chaos and loss.
Sondheim's Follies surely inspired Kander & Ebb's "Razzle dazzle 'em and you've got a romance" on the strength of @niopera.bsky.social's whip-crack smart staging @ Grand Opera House Belfast. Three performances left: www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/fol... @sondheimiteuk.bsky.social @thesondheimhub.bsky.social
September 16, 2025 at 11:29 PM
Sondheim's Follies surely inspired Kander & Ebb's "Razzle dazzle 'em and you've got a romance" on the strength of @niopera.bsky.social's whip-crack smart staging @ Grand Opera House Belfast. Three performances left: www.goh.co.uk/whats-on/fol... @sondheimiteuk.bsky.social @thesondheimhub.bsky.social
The end of the beginning… Dummy has spoken. Huge thanks to Emma Dawson, Holly Hannaway, Brian McAvera, Louise Parker, Dylan Quinn, Chris Robinson, Keith Singleton, Katie Richardson, hosts Prime Cut Productions, and funder Arts Council NI, for making possible an incredible workshop and reading.
September 12, 2025 at 10:55 PM
The end of the beginning… Dummy has spoken. Huge thanks to Emma Dawson, Holly Hannaway, Brian McAvera, Louise Parker, Dylan Quinn, Chris Robinson, Keith Singleton, Katie Richardson, hosts Prime Cut Productions, and funder Arts Council NI, for making possible an incredible workshop and reading.
A stack of palettes, plates of biscuits, heaps of laughs and a huge heart in Keith Singleton's Shedman, delivered with gusto and grace. One more performance at @themacbelfast.bsky.social: themaclive.com/event/shedman
August 28, 2025 at 9:09 PM
A stack of palettes, plates of biscuits, heaps of laughs and a huge heart in Keith Singleton's Shedman, delivered with gusto and grace. One more performance at @themacbelfast.bsky.social: themaclive.com/event/shedman
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Full audition day for Brenda Murphy's Baby It's Cold Outside for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre. Delighted to be directing with such a welcoming company and venue. Never too early to book seats: www.ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrel...
August 15, 2025 at 8:13 PM
It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas… Full audition day for Brenda Murphy's Baby It's Cold Outside for Bright Umbrella at Belfast's Sanctuary Theatre. Delighted to be directing with such a welcoming company and venue. Never too early to book seats: www.ticketsource.co.uk/brightumbrel...
Looking forward to reading @ruairiconaghan.bsky.social's remarkable Lies Where It Falls (PlayDead Press). Having seen it on video and stage, I'm keen to see how it works on the page. Flattered to get a mention of thanks.
August 13, 2025 at 5:48 PM
Looking forward to reading @ruairiconaghan.bsky.social's remarkable Lies Where It Falls (PlayDead Press). Having seen it on video and stage, I'm keen to see how it works on the page. Flattered to get a mention of thanks.
Valuable new research by Arts Council Northern Ireland into the economic worth of the arts. Public spending of £13.27 million generated £24 million GVA for ACNI clients; 80% (£104 million) of the whole arts sector's GVA. I'd say that was money well spent. artscouncil-ni.org/resources/ec...
July 31, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Valuable new research by Arts Council Northern Ireland into the economic worth of the arts. Public spending of £13.27 million generated £24 million GVA for ACNI clients; 80% (£104 million) of the whole arts sector's GVA. I'd say that was money well spent. artscouncil-ni.org/resources/ec...
Published in 1939, Michael McLaverty's evocative first novel, the Rathlin Island/pre-Partition Belfast-set Call my brother back, is one the great Northern Irish novels. Seamus Heaney hailed it as being 'among the verifying texts of modern Ulster writing'.
July 25, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Published in 1939, Michael McLaverty's evocative first novel, the Rathlin Island/pre-Partition Belfast-set Call my brother back, is one the great Northern Irish novels. Seamus Heaney hailed it as being 'among the verifying texts of modern Ulster writing'.
Mountains of research magnificently distilled into @mylesdungan.bsky.social's Land Is All That Matters (@headofzeus.bsky.social), the violent 'Three-Hundred Year War' over soil and Ireland's sense of itself told with illuminating, entertaining clarity.
July 17, 2025 at 6:24 PM
Mountains of research magnificently distilled into @mylesdungan.bsky.social's Land Is All That Matters (@headofzeus.bsky.social), the violent 'Three-Hundred Year War' over soil and Ireland's sense of itself told with illuminating, entertaining clarity.
Sad to hear of Peter Ballance's far too early passing. I only worked with him once, when he played the younger version of Kenneth Griffiths' Len in Martin Lynch's Pictures of Tomorrow for Radio 3, but thought he was a fine and woefully under-appreciated actor.
July 10, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Sad to hear of Peter Ballance's far too early passing. I only worked with him once, when he played the younger version of Kenneth Griffiths' Len in Martin Lynch's Pictures of Tomorrow for Radio 3, but thought he was a fine and woefully under-appreciated actor.
A thrill to see @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social venture into long-form work with her compelling debut novel, The Benefactors. Dazzlingly structured, written with honesty, humanity, quietly angry compassion & a flair for the intimate and dramatic. Perfect material ripe for TV. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
July 2, 2025 at 9:48 PM
A thrill to see @wednesdayerskin.bsky.social venture into long-form work with her compelling debut novel, The Benefactors. Dazzlingly structured, written with honesty, humanity, quietly angry compassion & a flair for the intimate and dramatic. Perfect material ripe for TV. @sceptrebooks.bsky.social
100 freshly-minted thumbnail portraits of the good, the bad and the who? caught in the orbit of The Beatles' bright star: Stuart Maconie's enjoyable With a Little Help From Their Friends (@harpercollins.bsky.social). Hope @feldmanbarrett.bsky.social knows she gets a mention.
June 17, 2025 at 10:57 PM
100 freshly-minted thumbnail portraits of the good, the bad and the who? caught in the orbit of The Beatles' bright star: Stuart Maconie's enjoyable With a Little Help From Their Friends (@harpercollins.bsky.social). Hope @feldmanbarrett.bsky.social knows she gets a mention.
Life writ large in small-town, rural Ireland in Orla Mackey's affecting, beautifully realised debut novel, Mouthing (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social). A new name among Ireland's must-read novelists in the line of John McGahern and Donal Ryan.
June 5, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Life writ large in small-town, rural Ireland in Orla Mackey's affecting, beautifully realised debut novel, Mouthing (@penguinrandomhouse.bsky.social). A new name among Ireland's must-read novelists in the line of John McGahern and Donal Ryan.
Stunning recital from Notre-Dame de Paris organist Olivier Latry at @porticoards.bsky.social, complete with a remarkable 17-minute improvisation on three national anthems. David McElderry's organ sang out impeccably. Good to see so many in attendance for what amounted to a triumph for the venue.
June 1, 2025 at 5:24 PM
Stunning recital from Notre-Dame de Paris organist Olivier Latry at @porticoards.bsky.social, complete with a remarkable 17-minute improvisation on three national anthems. David McElderry's organ sang out impeccably. Good to see so many in attendance for what amounted to a triumph for the venue.