West Side Story: An eye-opening production of a modern classic
Theatre: If you know the musical only from the 1961 and 2021 film versions, you’ll find Lonny Price’s staging a surprise
Stephen Sondheim
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Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy makes cameo at scandal free ceremony after Oscars chaos
West Side Story's Ariana DeBose: ‘I was enamoured with Rita Moreno’
The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake
West Side Story: Sondheim’s lyrics still crackle in Spielberg’s movie
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
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
Ian McKellen as Hamlet: Is ageism the last great barrier in the arts industry?
Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it
Zoom singalongs helping older people overcome pandemic isolation
The NCH’s Tea Dance Tunes on Zoom are bringing music into homes and care facilities
Adam Driver: ‘Acting is not glamorous in its making’
The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen
Marriage Story: A bitter divorce war with a surprisingly soft heart
Review: Scarlett Johansson has never been better and Adam Driver is equally good in Noah Baumbach’s breakup tale
The Belfast Ensemble brings its 3-day Bash to the Lyric Theatre
A retrospective celebration of the extraordinary canon of work in just two years
Irish Repertory Theatre: casting O’Casey’s shadow over Manhattan
To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy
David Shire: a Grammy in one fist, an Oscar in the other
The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
‘I’m pretty buzzing’: Irish actor Jessie Buckley wins best newcomer award in Britain
And Element Pictures scoop 10 prizes for ‘The Favourite’ at British Independent Film Awards
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’
Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry
‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatre
Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers
Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aim
Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve
A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
Imelda Staunton: The Irish dancing teacher slapped me. I thought ‘I’m never coming back’
Oscar-nominated actor on breaking through age barriers, Harry Potter and why she hates Irish dancing
Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakes
The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?
Lost in grandeur with Jean-Paul Gaultier in `The One'
The Friedrichstrasse ‘Palast’s’ latest spectacle, `The One', is an orgy of colour and style with costumes by French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier
Clinton calls half of Trump supporters ‘deplorables’
Democratic nominee rebuked by Trump camp following fundraiser comments
Ten of the best shows at the Edinburgh festivals
From Alan Cumming singing about Liza Minnelli to a heart-stopping play about depression, this year’s festival has had it all
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
Angela Lansbury: still a star at 90
The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life
Kid's Christmas: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf review at the Gaiety
Great fun for all ages
Can The Lir become one of best drama academies in the world?
The national academy produced its first trained actors this year; can it become one of the best drama academies in the world?
Way to Heaven/Assassins
Rough Magic’s Seeds double bill is perhaps the most auspicious and brilliant of the company’s culminations yet
‘I like feeling out of my depth’: how Jessie Buckley went from Kerry to the West End
Killarney’s Jessie Buckley is to share a stage with Jude Law in a West End production of ‘Henry V’. The experience has been terrifying and ‘completely liberating’
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