IT’S BEEN a long time since a script has topped the bestsellers list, but that’s just the kind of magic JK Rowling and her boy wizard can create.

Given wizardry is her forte, it comes as no surprise that JK Rowling’s particular brand of magic has extended to sales of a script inspired by one of her stories — Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two has become the fastest-selling script of all time.

USA: A 42-year-old skydiver with more than 18,000 jumps has made history by becoming the first person to leap without a parachute and land in a net instead.

JK Rowling will be able to breathe a sigh of relief after the first preview of Harry Potter And The Cursed Child was met with “whooping and cheering”.

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The film turned musical is back in Dublin where it all began, writes Padraic Killeen

Jo Kerrigan rounds up the best theatre offerings at home and abroad for the months ahead

Former Boyzone star Ronan Keating is making his West End debut playing a busker in hit musical 'Once'.

John Tiffany is in talks with J. K. Rowling to helm a Harry Potter play.

The hit Broadway adaptation of the acclaimed romantic film won eight Tony awards and is opening in Dublin tonight. Its writer Enda Walsh talks to Pádraic Killeen

President Michael D Higgins led tributes last night to the team behind an Irish musical which triumphed at the Tony Awards in New York.

President Michael D Higgins led tributes to the creators of an Irish musical which scooped eight Tony Awards.

The Broadway musical version of the love story Once, about a Dublin busker and Czech pianist, has gained the highest number of nominations for the 2012 Tony Awards.