The Glass Menagerie: Delicacy and tenderness but overwrought moments, too
Theatre: It is impossible not to try to guess what director Emma Jordan was aiming in terms of vocal style and script
Tennessee Williams
The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ vision slips away as comic hilarity replaces sexual seduction
Theatre: The harder this drama works to make Williams’ play accessible, the more ridiculous it seems
The Rose Tattoo: ‘There will be women in the audience cringing that these things are even talked about’
An inspired new production of The Rose Tattoo moves the setting of Tennessee Williams’s play from Italian America to an Irish halting site
Despite the troubles of the Trump years the US continues to offer so much
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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
English ‘chumocracy’: Boozy weekends and class disdain with the Camerons
London Letter: David Cameron has been embarrassed by a book about his inner circle
Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has made all familiar things strange
It should not take something as terrible as this to awake us to life’s inherent fragility
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Mia Gallagher’s speech to launch Alan McMonagle’s new novel at Hodges Figges
Tech Feels The Bern: Tech workers are strong support base for Sanders
Debates over whether innovation could thrive under Bernie Sanders presidency are a distraction
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
Kirk Douglas obituary: Ragman’s son who became a Hollywood superstar
Actor known for celebrated films like Spartacus and Paths of Glory died aged 103
Rip Torn, Men in Black and Larry Sanders Show star, dies aged 88
Star was nominated for six Emmys for his role as Artie on The Larry Sanders Show
‘I wrote a part for my husband. By the time filming was over, so was our marriage’
British writer Emma Forrest on her marriage break up and making her directorial debut with her film Untogether, which stars her ex husband
Italian film director Franco Zeffirelli dies at 96
Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays
Dominic Raab’s dodgy details not out of place in Tory race
London Letter: ‘Powerful and obnoxious odour of mendacity’ surrounds Boris Johnson
Faded Southern belles and pumped-up kicks: this week’s theatre highlights
The revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of wit
The Glass Menagerie review: A handsome but muted new production
The Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s play
Violent femme: Why Isabelle Huppert isn’t afraid of being scary
Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer
Seán Moncrieff: My computer broke. It’s like part of my house burned down
It’s almost impossible to function without an electronic device. They have left us powerless
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf review: Who’s afraid of this trashy takedown?
Dublin Theatre Festival: An acerbic, postmodern riff on Edward Albee’s classic
Tab Hunter, Hollywood heartthrob who hid sexuality, dead at 86
Hunter embodied the clean-cut image but was forced to deny his gay sexuality for years
Walton Goggins: ‘I’m very grateful Quentin Tarantino saw something in me’
The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III
Hubert de Givenchy obituary: couturier to Audrey Hepburn and Jackie Kennedy
Although Givenchy never lacked wealthy customers, he was uncomfortable with the extravagant showmanship of couture from the mid-1970s
Peter Hall: Director who shaped an era of British theatre
Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’
Rooney Mara: ‘Doing the Irish accent was terrifying’
The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’
David Begg: Millennials simply will not have enough to live on when they retire
Relying entirely on tax incentivised market solutions has not provided the pensions coverage or adequacy citizens need
‘It’s as if Saoirse Ronan was born in the theatre’ - Ivo van Hove
Ahead of a visit to Galway, the Belgian director reveals his vision for theatre, his admiration for Ronan and why he insists that actors tell him they love him
Something Unspoken review: A genteel depiction of fading Southern sadomasochism
The frustration is almost tantric in this new production of Tennessee Williams' play
Friends in media, politics gather for James Downey funeral
Journalist decided ‘he could wait no longer for government to be formed’, mourners told
‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’
Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre
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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