Trump play a timely reminder of hunger for political satire
London Letter: Mike Bartlett dominates capital’s stages with merciless eye for venal
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Coward and Mac Liammóir shared a secret, seldom-spoken language
London Letter: A new Noël Coward exhibition reminds us of carefully constructed, parallel lives
Shadow and Bone star Jessie Mei Li: ‘Fans will protect the books with their lives’
The actor is about to hit TV stardom as a girl with special powers in Netflix’s new fantasy
Judi Dench: ‘In my mind’s eye I’m six foot and willowy and about 39’
The actor on ghosts, Harvey Weinstein and definitely not being a British national treasure
The Capote Tapes: From impoverished childhood to cocaine-fuelled decline
‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
They should have called it Dylan McDermott’s Sex Garage
Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy
Jane Casey: On My Culture Radar
The author on watching Tom Hiddleston on stage, and how Andrew Scott influenced her new novel
What happened when Fleabag and, briefly, the Hot Priest came to a Dublin cinema?
Long queues at the Irish Film Institute for a live screening of Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s sell-out West End show
The Irishman: New trailer for Netflix movie starring Robert de Niro and Al Pacino
The trailer exists to reassure the millions who grew up with Mean Streets, Goodfellas, Casino and The Departed.
Can You Ever Forgive Me? Boozy, belligerent Melissa McCarthy shows she can act
Review: McCarthy and Richard E Grant excel in Marielle Heller’s decadent drama
Josephine Hart, writer and ‘heroine’ who inspired Herstory
Hart harnessed early tragedy to become a publisher, writer, poetry promoter and television producer
Barry Keoghan: ‘My mother would be pretty proud. And surprised’
Actor on making Famine film Black 47, becoming American and Dublin's sweet smell
Dylan Moran: ‘Smoking or breathing, one of them had to go’
Comedian on the ‘cult’ of Catholicism, his love of poetry and giving up fags and booze
Monica de Wichfeld: Chanel designer, gun-runner and rebel to the end
Extraordinary Emigrants: Fermanagh woman gathered intelligence on the Nazis for Britain
Finding the Headspace to celebrate brain health and dementia
Symposium in Trinity will look to discuss creative ways of treating illness
A warm conspiracy of disapproval: the table of six, the waitress and me
London Letter: Unfortunately, we ensured anguish was on the menu that day
Dame Ninette De Valois, the Wicklow woman who brought ballet to Britain
Extraordinary Emigrants: De Valois founded the company that became the Royal Ballet
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
How damaged is Kevin Spacey after response to abuse allegations?
Suspicions raised that actor timed his coming out as gay to deflect attention from claims
Entertainer and comedian whose success spanned multiple generations
Bruce Forsyth obituary: born February 22nd, 1928; died August 18th, 2017
Veteran actor best known for ‘Last of the Summer Wine’
Obituary: Peter Sallis. Born February 1st 1921; died June 2nd, 2017
New exhibition paints a picture of British queer life
London Letter: Tate Britain’s landmark show tells a story of courage, shame and sex
John Hurt obituary: Open-hearted and hysterically funny
In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett
Wolfgang Rihm can chat and compose at the same time
The German composer is a master of quite contradictory styles and his output runs to more than 400 works
Three steps to making employee motivation work
Engagement is key to employee happiness, says a workplace psychology expert
Acclaimed British actor Alan Rickman dies aged 69
Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer
Letter from Shanghai: City’s Jewish heritage blends glamour and compassion
Role of Chinese financial hub as a safe haven for Jews is being recognised
Remembering the artist Derek Hill
Englishman was granted honorary Irish citizenship by President Mary McAleese
I’m playing British characters on stage but I’ll always be Irish
Q&A with Irish actor Rory Fleck Byrne: ‘It took going abroad for me to realise how much Ireland has contributed to the world of theatre and film’
Third Person review: a cinema crash waiting to happen
Beautiful people have all the frickin’ problems in Paul Haggis glossy but superficial drama
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