Poet Paul Muldoon’s intensely intimate work, ‘Incantata’, is being re-imagined for the theatre and will premiere at the Galway Arts Festival, writes Marjorie Brennan.

Joe Carey owns The White Horse venue which will host the Ballincollig Winter Music Festival in the Cork suburb from January 25-28. A keen musician himself, he is also a member of the White Horse Guitar Club and Jodavino.

Al Pacino discusses his new film with Shilpa Ganatra , and also offers a solution for those who can’t afford the prices for his live appearance in Ireland

So the end came over tea and scones. That seems a rather genteel way to conclude the greatest career in Gaelic games rather than, say, a last, frenzied attack to overturn a two-point deficit, a desperate free launched into a hostile square.

GEORGE Best is sitting up in a hotel bed with a gorgeous blonde beside him, when the waiter arrives with a bottle of vintage champagne. The waiter looks at the former soccer star and asks: “George, where did it all go wrong?”

VICTORIA BECKHAM has admitted that her children didn’t think she had a “proper job” as she prepares to open her first clothing store in London.

Bookmakers are offering odds on Lindsay Lohan being axed from her latest role after her West End debut met with mixed reviews.

Don’t we all?

Hollywood actor and former child star Lindsay Lohan says she has put her troubled period behind her and is determined to win an Oscar.

Lindsay Lohan's credit card has been declined.

US actress Lindsay Lohan is to make her stage debut in London’s West End in a play about the movie business.

Starred Up ****

IT’S like déjà vu all over again.

Martin McDonagh took the theatre world by storm in 1996 following the premiere of his debut play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, in Galway.

As the Cannes Film Festival opens, Irish photographer John Minihan retraces the highlights of a career spent capturing some of Hollywood’s biggest names, and his Oscar party trip this year

As music legend awaits the final appeal of his murder conviction and Al Pacino plays him in a new film, Vikram Jayanti remembers Phil Spector’s tortured struggle between genius and monster

Actor Al Pacino said he decided not to meet record producer and convicted killer Phil Spector before portraying him in an movie – only to find he already had.

British actress Helen Mirren, who won an Oscar for her portrayal of Elizabeth II in The Queen, has been given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.

THERE are few actors in contemporary American theatre as well regarded as John Mahoney.

If I wasn’t an actor, I would love to have been the best saxophonist ever.

Pulitzer Prize- winning play Glengarry Glen Ross’s grasping salesmen are a metaphor of our times, says Padraic Killeen

Comedian Frankie Boyle will have shows in Cork and Dublin next December.

THE immortal words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock ‘n’ roll” launched music television (MTV) thirty years ago this summer on August 1, 1981.

Al Pacino is set to star as legendary record producer Phil Spector in a TV film to be written and directed by David Mamet, TV channel HBO said.

ACTOR and political activist Ron Silver, who won a Tony Award as a take-no-prisoners Hollywood producer in David Mamet’s Speed-the-Plow, died on Sunday at the age of 62.

Actor Jeremy Piven will face a union grievance committee today to defend himself against theatre bosses' complaints over his sudden departure from the David Mamet play 'Speed-The-Plow'.

Jeremy Piven has hit back at the producers of New York play 'Speed-the-Plow' after theatre bosses filed an official complaint over his departure from the show.

Jeremy Piven has blamed a "high mercury count" for the mystery illness that prompted him to abandon all upcoming performances for Broadway play 'Speed-the-Plow'.

A mystery illness has prompted doctors to order actor Jeremy Piven to "immediately" cancel all upcoming performances in ongoing Broadway play 'Speed-the-Plow'.

Kevin Spacey has been hailed for his work in London's West End at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.

After four years away from the screen Mamet returns with a film that is flawed and far from his usual brilliance … but, then, a Mamet film is always to be welcomed - however damaged it might be.

Jessica Alba is lining up a stint on the Broadway stage next year - in a bid to beat an actor's strike.

Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said today that he no longer cared about his movie career.

Hollywood star Kevin Spacey has vowed to put his theatre career before any big screen roles - and will appear on stage in January.

Jessica Alba was taught to act by husband-and-wife Hollywood stars William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman.

Kim Cattrall has confirmed that the highly-anticipated feature film version of Sex And The City is officially back on.

Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has taken a massive paycut to make her return to the London stage.

BRITISH playwright Harold Pinter, a master of sparse dialogue and menacing silences who has been an outspoken critic of the US-led war in Iraq, was the surprise winner of the Nobel literature prize yesterday.

Dawson’s Creek star Joshua Jackson is to appear in the West End.

You know that any film with Mamet’s name attached to it is going to be mature, sophisticated, thoughtful and a cut above the norm.

Kenneth Branagh, who stole the second Harry Potter film as the vain Gilderoy Lockhart, is a busy man these days.

Friends star Matthew Perry said he suffered from opening night jitters when he stepped on stage in London, where he is starring in David Mamet’s play Sexual Perversity in Chicago.

Why were Friends star Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria of The Simpsons making a scene in a London park recently?

Friends star Matthew Perry has told how his years of booze binges nearly killed him.

Friends star Matthew Perry is to make his world stage debut in the West End, it was announced today.

Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are to produce a new film written by David Mamet.

Sex And The City's Kim Cattrall is to play a lesbian on Broadway.

Madonna’s first stage performance for 13 years received mixed reviews from fans who queued in the rain to see the pop superstar.