‘We ask what happens when you have a life-threatening disease and only a few years to live,’ says the actor, who was diagnosed with MND last year
The Irish actor is taking on Lady Macbeth, perhaps the playwright’s darkest woman character, for the Royal Shakespeare Company
Sweeney success was later topped with critically acclaimed television series Minder
Waterman starred in TV show after he found fame as cop George Carter in The Sweeney
There’s no better time to rediscover the joy of travelling by train
She left the Chinese restaurant for Rada to become one of her generation’s best actors
The actor’s beloved stepdaughter, Nataasha van Kampen, died aged 28 in 2012
His frank new memoir describes a difficult childhood and names Hollywood ‘a***holes’
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
Throughout her long acting career Rigg retained the electric irony that made her such a phenomenon in the 1960s
As the actor turns 75, a look at her astonishing career in which she’s played cops, rockers, monarchs and murderers
Actor went from RSC and Pinter to stardom as Bilbo Baggins and as an android in Alien
Jimmy Smyth, Peter McGinnity and Jim Neilly remember the golden days
The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino
We must ensure the super rich don’t get a pass because they fling money at the arts
Chronic anxiety prevents him touring, but classical music offers an outlet
The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing
For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years
Still feisty and busy at 85, Sheila Hancock remains connected to the zeitgeist
Like its protagonist, Matilda the Musical is not afraid to be clever, while Beckett’s words are put to music in Gare Saint Lazare’s Here All Night at the Abbey and beyond
Roald Dahl’s novel may be 30 years old, but this adaptation from the Royal Shakespeare Company resonates chillingly
Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
People celebrating a female Doctor Who as a symbol of increasing gender equality have got it wrong
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
Century on from author’s birth, group’s goal is to make every child in the world a fan
This week on Róisín Meets . . . the actor talks open marriage and Waking the Feminists
Frank Finlay: August 6th, 1926 – January 30th, 2016
Donald Clarke on the late actor, a funny, warm man in person, who could never quite shake the whiff of brimstone on screen
Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer
Colin Welland: July 4th, 1934 - November 2nd, 2015
There’s a terrifying rage in her play ‘By the Bog of Cats’, which is reopening at the Abbey Theatre – and it’s an anger as old as the Greeks
Billie Whitelaw: June 6th, 1932 - December 21st, 2014
Tara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bear
Ahead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet company
Donald Sinden born 9 October 1923; died 11 September 2014
British actor had more than 70 credits for film and TV productions since late 1940s
Helen Mirren on traumas, triumphs and the biggest lie ever told about her
Actor who played role of Nursie dies in London care home
From the campus to the Peacock, all the world’s a stage for lecture series on the Bard
President tells of poignant moment when memories of IRA father flooded back
President leaves Windsor before concluding trip with visits to Stratford-upon-Avon and Coventry
President and his wife driven away from Heathrow in a maroon coloured Bentley flying an Irish tricolour
President’s visit follows the successful visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland in 2011
Cautious and couched, Emily Watson is an actor who exhibits reason and calm at every turn. So how did such a sober person find herself in such as dangerous business? “I was pretty bloody minded . . .”
The Shed, an intimate space at home to experimental theatre, seems like a venue designed to suit the times. At the heart of its success is Ben Power, a dramaturg, ‘shadowy figure’ and Shakespeare’s ‘remixer’
The continuing hegemony of the Abbey is hurting Irish theatre as a whole, and it is hurting the Abbey even more. First and foremost, artistic leadership must be restored to the organisation
Camille O’Sullivan gives the wronged Lucrece a powerful voice as Shakespeare’s text is condensed into 12 songs
Gerard Murphy - Born: October 14th, 1948; Died August 26th, 2013
Line-up includes new plays by Frank McGuinness and Eugene O’Neill, and a fresh translation of The Threepenny Opera
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
