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Hamilton in Dublin will be incredible. It has evidence of the Brits being at it again in spades
Seats are already very limited, but if you’re going or thinking of it, here’s a survival guide
Hamilton: ticket sales for Dublin shows break records as eager fans queue to secure seats
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre will host award-winning musical for a nine-week run in 2024
Andrew Garfield: ‘I needed to be with these freaks and lunatics’
Now starring in The Eyes of Tammy Faye the former web-slinger is tipped for an Oscar
Breda O’Brien: Women need to work with men who despise misogynist behaviour
Righteous anger should spur us to bring about change but also needs careful handling
Rita Moreno: ‘Was Brando a good lover? Oh, yes! Incredible’
The Hollywood veteran on West Side Story, dating Brando and Elvis Presley, and joy at 90
Broadway composer and lyricist Stephen Sondheim dies aged 91
Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, and composed Sweeney Todd
Lin-Manuel Miranda: ‘I do know what it is like to be a struggling songwriter’
The Hamilton creator reflects on his career and his debut film, Tick, Tick… Boom!
Tuning out: The strange case of the apparent death of the film musical
Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre
Emmys: The Crown, Ted Lasso and The Mandalorian lead nominations
Streaming services take most nominations, with 130 for HBO+ and 129 for Netflix
Donald Clarke: Sing it with me – the musical will outlive its boring detractors
It has been driven underground at times, but the form remains reassuringly resilient
Oscars 2022: My predictions for next year’s best-picture nominees
Donald Clarke forecasts how next year’s category may look as the industry creaks back into action
Golden Globes 2021: Who should win, who will win and are any of them Irish?
Wolfwalkers, Brendan Gleeson and Normal People could win in the controversy-hit awards
Kavanagh death mask and miniature Ming bowl to headline upcoming sales
Poet Patrick Kavanagh's death mask and portrait of campaigner Vicky Phelan are among auction highlights
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in October
Highlights include Rebecca, Emily in Paris, The Trial of the Chicago 7, David Attenborough: A Life on Our Planet
We are world masters of The Slag – but Niall Horan fans don’t get it
The Irish experts at expressing themselves through ironic aggression rather than sincere affection
Netflix: 10 of the best new shows and films to watch in July
Including The Old Guard, The Umbrella Academy, Unsolved Mysteries and Say I Do
So long, Coogan’s: Covid-19 wipes out a little piece of Irish America
The New York Irish pub had to shut its doors on St Patrick’s Day. Now they won’t reopen
Shutdown show-stoppers: Broadway and West End stars sing in these six home videos
Stars from Hamilton, Mamma Mia! and more perform hit songs to raise Covid-19 morale
Calm down online bores, colour-blind casting isn’t ‘woke’
With Dev Patel as David Copperfield, movies have caught up with theatre’s creative approach
Film 2020: The 50 films to watch out for
The best biopics, documentaries, cartoons, features and award favourites of the year
As Notre Dame burned, so too did a part of us
Jennifer O’Connell: You don’t have to have lived in Paris to have had a visceral reaction to seeing Notre Dame gutted
The Chrysler Building is for sale, but does anyone want it?
New Yorkers love the 1920s skyscraper but not so much as a workplace
Mary Poppins Returns: Emily Blunt is good, but the film is average-alidocious
Review: This sequel, which is practically a remake, lacks the zip of the original
Children’s books: what were the standout titles of the year?
Peter Donnelly’s ‘The President’s Cat’, Louise O’Neill’s ‘The Surface Breaks’ and more
‘Beat’: A rapping, rhyming throwdown to toxic masculinity
Fionntán Larney’s ‘Hamilton’-influenced hip hop musical theatre show is now an album
US protests over Trump’s ‘zero humanity’ immigration policy
Families Belong Together rallies take place in over 700 locations across the country
Bojack Horseman: not puns or pastiche, but great comedy pedigree
The Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long run
Tara Lee: a raw talent cooking up a music and acting career
She’s been in ‘Raw’, ‘The Fall’, ‘A Date for Mad Mary’ and stars in newfilm ‘Moon Dogs’, but the 22-year-old singer-songwriter from Donard didn’t always see herself as an actor
Oscars 2017 predictions: What should win, and what will win
‘La La Land’ or ‘Moonlight’? Emma Stone or Natalie Portman? Casey Affleck or Denzel Washington? Donald Clarke makes his predictions for Sunday night's Oscars ceremony
Oscars 2017: Our predictions for this year’s nominations
It’s the time of year when we accurately pick around 83 percent of the main nominations
Trump’s ‘Hamilton’ attack distracts from scandals, experts say
Decision to lash out at cast ridiculed as $25m Trump University story fades from news
Trump demands apology over the booing of Mike Pence
Vice president-elect booed at performance of a hit hip-hop musical in New York on Friday night
Leonard Cohen captured ‘essence of human life’, President says
Lissadell co-owner says 2010 concerts made up ‘one of most incredible weekends in my life’
Hamilton: Not your usual hip-hop musical about an American founding father
Hamilton, a show about ‘someone who embodies hip-hop’ – the all-but-forgotten Alexander Hamilton – is tipped to sweep the Tonys on Sunday
Puerto Rico at sea with US Congress over financial bailout
US territory in the Caribbean shares fiscal pain suffered by another island: Ireland
Ferdia Walsh-Peelo: Sing Street, Sundance... now back to school
He wowed Sundance and impressed at Audi Dublin International Film Festival – the teenage musician and actor is perfectly cast as director John Carney’s movie alter-ego
Les Miserables star Kyle Jean-Baptiste dies in fire escape fall
Actor was first African-American, and also the youngest to play lead role of Jean Valjean
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