Written in clear-eyed anger: Harold Pinter’s anti-war poems
Slaughter in Ukraine sent me back to poems Pinter wrote about US-led invasion of Iraq
Slaughter in Ukraine sent me back to poems Pinter wrote about US-led invasion of Iraq
As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the actor talks about his career
He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, now he returns to stage as Cyrano
There has long been a myth that the role of James Bond swallows careers whole
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
While there are typically bleak comic diversions, there's an atmosphere of surreal gloom that is very much Kaufman’s own
From George Best to Christy Ring, theirs is an eye that picks up things others do not
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly
The author on watching Tom Hiddleston on stage, and how Andrew Scott influenced her new novel
My licence fee isn’t paying for The Wall with Danny Dyer – someone else has that pleasure
TV review: ‘The Interrogation of Tony Martin’ explores a shooting in Norfolk
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word
'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled
Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’
`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence
The gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out now
The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing
Elisabeth Moss stars in nightmarish vision of a future that doesn’t feel as far off as it once did
Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David Irving
You can’t keep the darkly comic writer from the theatre – hardly surprising for a ‘frustrated actor’. He talks about his play Autumn Royal
If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice
Dread that shaped Pinter’s play never materialises in this new production
Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it
Aidan Higgins: March 3rd, 1927 - December 27th, 2015
Author described as ‘the missing link between high modernism and the present’
From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives
Colin Welland: July 4th, 1934 - November 2nd, 2015
Friel established himself as an heir to the silences of Beckett and father to the tradition of monologue drama
An edited extract of the award-winning actor’s acceptance speech at the ‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards
Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Toby Frow’s production of Pinter’s 1960 play sticks too scrupulously to the text
With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels
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
Dora Bryan: February 7th, 1923 - July 23rd, 2014
The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth
Echo’s Bones a relatively minor work, but it’s pungent early Beckett
From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature
"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
In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia
The extension of information obsession to the field of intimacy ruins the mystery, poetry and suspense
Lia Williams tackled her role in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by researching Tennessee Williams – ‘because he is Blanche’
The veteran actor returns to Dublin to perform ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, in a role he has been developing for more than a decade
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices