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.
Wed, 18 Jul, 2018
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.
Thu, 04 Jan, 2018
Tue, 16 Feb, 2016
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
Fri, 22 May, 2015
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.
Thu, 26 Mar, 2015
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?”
Mon, 16 Mar, 2015
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.
Mon, 29 Sep, 2014
Bookmakers are offering odds on Lindsay Lohan being axed from her latest role after her West End debut met with mixed reviews.
Fri, 26 Sep, 2014
Don’t we all?
Wed, 24 Sep, 2014
Hollywood actor and former child star Lindsay Lohan says she has put her troubled period behind her and is determined to win an Oscar.
Sun, 14 Sep, 2014
Lindsay Lohan's credit card has been declined.
Wed, 20 Aug, 2014
US actress Lindsay Lohan is to make her stage debut in London’s West End in a play about the movie business.
Thu, 26 Jun, 2014
Starred Up ****
Sun, 23 Mar, 2014
IT’S like déjà vu all over again.
Sun, 02 Feb, 2014
Martin McDonagh took the theatre world by storm in 1996 following the premiere of his debut play, The Beauty Queen of Leenane, in Galway.
Fri, 17 Jan, 2014
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
Thu, 16 May, 2013
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
Sat, 30 Mar, 2013
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.
Sat, 05 Jan, 2013
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.
Tue, 17 Jul, 2012
If I wasn’t an actor, I would love to have been the best saxophonist ever.
Sat, 02 Jun, 2012
Pulitzer Prize- winning play Glengarry Glen Ross’s grasping salesmen are a metaphor of our times, says Padraic Killeen
Fri, 25 May, 2012
Comedian Frankie Boyle will have shows in Cork and Dublin next December.
Fri, 27 Apr, 2012
THE immortal words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock ‘n’ roll” launched music television (MTV) thirty years ago this summer on August 1, 1981.
Sat, 30 Jul, 2011
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.
Sat, 09 Oct, 2010
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.
Tue, 17 Mar, 2009
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'.
Thu, 26 Feb, 2009
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.
Mon, 19 Jan, 2009
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'.
Fri, 19 Dec, 2008
A mystery illness has prompted doctors to order actor Jeremy Piven to "immediately" cancel all upcoming performances in ongoing Broadway play 'Speed-the-Plow'.
Thu, 18 Dec, 2008
Kevin Spacey has been hailed for his work in London's West End at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards.
Tue, 25 Nov, 2008
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.
Fri, 26 Sep, 2008
Jessica Alba is lining up a stint on the Broadway stage next year - in a bid to beat an actor's strike.
Tue, 27 Nov, 2007
Hollywood actor Kevin Spacey said today that he no longer cared about his movie career.
Thu, 14 Jun, 2007
Hollywood star Kevin Spacey has vowed to put his theatre career before any big screen roles - and will appear on stage in January.
Sat, 02 Jun, 2007
Jessica Alba was taught to act by husband-and-wife Hollywood stars William H. Macy and Felicity Huffman.
Tue, 20 Mar, 2007
Kim Cattrall has confirmed that the highly-anticipated feature film version of Sex And The City is officially back on.
Wed, 20 Dec, 2006
Sex and the City star Kim Cattrall has taken a massive paycut to make her return to the London stage.
Sat, 15 Jul, 2006
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.
Fri, 14 Oct, 2005
Dawson’s Creek star Joshua Jackson is to appear in the West End.
Fri, 22 Oct, 2004
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.
Fri, 06 Aug, 2004
Kenneth Branagh, who stole the second Harry Potter film as the vain Gilderoy Lockhart, is a busy man these days.
Wed, 25 Jun, 2003
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.
Fri, 20 Jun, 2003
Why were Friends star Matthew Perry and Hank Azaria of The Simpsons making a scene in a London park recently?
Thu, 05 Jun, 2003
Friends star Matthew Perry has told how his years of booze binges nearly killed him.
Fri, 25 Apr, 2003
Friends star Matthew Perry is to make his world stage debut in the West End, it was announced today.
Mon, 10 Feb, 2003
Steven Soderbergh and George Clooney are to produce a new film written by David Mamet.
Wed, 04 Sep, 2002
Sex And The City's Kim Cattrall is to play a lesbian on Broadway.
Tue, 27 Aug, 2002
Madonna’s first stage performance for 13 years received mixed reviews from fans who queued in the rain to see the pop superstar.
Tue, 14 May, 2002
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