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Theatre: This restaging of David Mamet’s play about misogynistic Hollywood executives flips its characters’ sexes. Much of the impact gets lost in translation
David Mamet
Madonna played this preyed-on assistant on Broadway. Now a man is stepping into her shoes
Speed-the-Plow: Janet Moran flips the sexes in a new production of David Mamet’s play about casting-couch coercions
Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the age
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Brokentalkers and Truscott’s fruitful collaboration feels like a direct response to #MeToo
Harvey Weinstein: ‘I can make or break your career. So show me your breasts’
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Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
‘I’m asleep, and she turns up, a bit drunk. We both knew where it was going’
I’m listening to two young men doing what we think they are incapable of: having a meaningful conversation about consent
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The actor was arrested this month, accused of paying $15,000 to fix her daughter’s school test
Mile 22: Mark Wahlberg in an underwhelming glob of generic pulp
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Incantata: Paul Muldoon wrestles with grief at loss of former partner
Paul Muldoon’s long poem in memory of his former partner is premiering as a theatre piece at the Galway Arts Festival with a performance by Stanley Townsend
The Boy Downstairs: ‘When Harry Met Sally’ for millennials
Zosia Mamet shows a delicate comic touch in this hugely likeable New York rom-com
Bay Garnett: from 1990s thrifter to cutting edge stylist
Having cut her teeth on Cheap Date, a much-loved but short-lived DIY fashion magazine of the 1990s, Garnett now styles the likes of Kate Moss for British Vogue
‘When you cry, you really cry’: the emotional toll of stage acting
Actors often take their characters’ painful experiences – repeated night after night – with them off stage. Kate Fleetwood, Michelle Terry and Ben Miles explain how playing murderers, heroin addicts and monarchs marked them deep inside
Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye review: profit versus principles in the newsroom
An overload of stories makes it easy to lose sight of what is important
Conor McPherson: ‘Plays are stupid. You are supposed to feel them in your bones’
Conor McPherson’s talent as a playwright was precocious, but writing for a living was never part of the master plan
Mark O’Rowe on the power to shock – and feel
The plays of the ‘Howie the Rookie’ writer are dark, complex affairs. With his new work, ‘Our Few and Evil Days’, about to open at the Abbey Theatre, even he admits he doesn’t fully know what makes them tick
Lindsey Lohan confirmed to make West End stage debut in Speed-the-Plow
Troubled star to step into Madonna’s old shoes in David Mamet’s Hollywood satire
Aidan Gillen's life in movies
"I wouldn’t consider myself a film buff, really,” says the Irish star of Game of Thrones as he talks about his hand-picked selection of classic 1970s flicks screening in Cork
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