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
Harold Pinter
Patrick Stewart: ‘I had difficult patches... I’d drink alcohol until I passed out’
As he beams aboard another Star Trek adventure, the actor talks about his career
James McAvoy: ‘We can’t define ourselves by our relationship with England’
He came blazing out of Glasgow like a rocket, now he returns to stage as Cyrano
It’s no time to die for Daniel Craig the actor. How to have a post-Bond career
There has long been a myth that the role of James Bond swallows careers whole
Salman Rushdie: ‘I am stupidly optimistic – it got me through those bad years’
The novelist on strong women, ‘moral censorship’ and the ‘great wound’ of his life
Christopher Plummer never hid his dislike of The Sound of Music
Nobody combined charm and menace better than the late Canadian Oscar-winning actor
I’m Thinking of Ending Things review: Netflix’s brilliant, frustrating, daring Charlie Kaufman film
While there are typically bleak comic diversions, there's an atmosphere of surreal gloom that is very much Kaufman’s own
Sporting Poetry: Seeing far beyond the scoreboard
From George Best to Christy Ring, theirs is an eye that picks up things others do not
Mubi: online repertory cinema for a handful of change
Fancy a rotating visual feast of 30 arthouse movies monthly and all neatly curated?
George MacKay: ‘My influences? Conor McGregor and wallabies’
After his turn in 1917, the actor is tackling the role of iconic Australian outlaw Ned Kelly
Jane Casey: On My Culture Radar
The author on watching Tom Hiddleston on stage, and how Andrew Scott influenced her new novel
Who wants to be a TV game show genius?
My licence fee isn’t paying for The Wall with Danny Dyer – someone else has that pleasure
Muted drama ventures inside the mind of homeowner who killed an Irish Traveller
TV review: ‘The Interrogation of Tony Martin’ explores a shooting in Norfolk
Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
Why are artists intoxicated with Samuel Beckett?
Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word
Seven women allege abuse and harassment by Michael Colgan
'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled
Peter Hall: Director who shaped an era of British theatre
Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’
Darren Aronofsky: ‘My ego finds its way into all the films’
`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
Rellik: The TV show that gives you everything back except your time
The gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out now
Michael Longley: ‘Being 77 and three-quarters is the best time of my life’
The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing
The Handmaid’s Tale: A truly moving close-up of sex slavery
Elisabeth Moss stars in nightmarish vision of a future that doesn’t feel as far off as it once did
One for the Road review: A miniature study of terror and torture
Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
Rachel Weisz: ‘Holocaust denial didn’t affect me until the internet age’
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
Kevin Barry: ‘I love reading my work. I’m 98% ham’
You can’t keep the darkly comic writer from the theatre – hardly surprising for a ‘frustrated actor’. He talks about his play Autumn Royal
Bob Dylan’s Nobel: Better to have gone to a ‘complete unknown’?
If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice
The Birthday Party review: All talk, low action
Dread that shaped Pinter’s play never materialises in this new production
‘It’s a bit like country music, an ignored part of hidden Ireland’
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
Experimental writer championed by Beckett and Banville
Aidan Higgins: March 3rd, 1927 - December 27th, 2015
Acclaimed Irish writer Aidan Higgins dies aged 88
Author described as ‘the missing link between high modernism and the present’
Peter Crawley’s 2015: Gender and history get a stunning makeover
From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives
Versatile writer and actor known for left-wing views
Colin Welland: July 4th, 1934 - November 2nd, 2015
Brian Friel: The equal of Arthur Miller and Harold Pinter
Friel established himself as an heir to the silences of Beckett and father to the tradition of monologue drama
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