Aislín McGuckin has the wit and elegance to play the bored Natalya, whose life of stifling privilege is smashed by her desire for her son’s tutor, the 21-year-old Aleksei, in Turgenev’s play, A Month in the Country, says Padraic Killeen

THE National Theatre’s comedy One Man, Two Guvnors, currently on its biggest-ever tour, will reach Dublin’s Bord Gais Energy Theatre next week. If ever you needed a tonic to lift the gloom of winter, then this is most certainly it.

MUSIC NEWS: The Script’s Danny O’Donoghue and co have been busy touring, with Hot Press also reporting the band recently shot the video for their single ‘Superheroes’ in a township in Johannesburg.

The stage adaptation of the Irish film 'Once' has won two gongs at the Laurence Olivier Awards in London overnight.

The award-winning and commercially successful show hits Dublin, reports Jo Kerrigan

Award-winning West End play The Curious Incident Of The Dog In The Night-Time is moving to a new venue after the ceiling collapse at the Apollo Theatre which injured audience members.

GIVEN the weather we’ve been enduring here lately, you have to envy the Australian lifestyle. They can plan open air events with confidence, and if you were thinking of celebrating the first months of 2014 down under, then Sydney is the place to head for, where on Feb 1 you can enjoy Opera in the Domain free.

THE National Theatre’s staging of War Horse has been universally lauded as a thrilling, magnificent and moving epic.

It’s been a slow and steady rise to stardom for Damian Lewis. But now he’s hit the jackpot with an Emmy win for his role in Homeland. He talks to Craig McLean about fame, fatherhood and fan clubs.

Big Ben is to chime non-stop for three minutes to ring in the Olympic Games.

Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle is to return to the theatre, after being “distracted by film-making” for 15 years, to stage a new adaptation of 'Frankenstein', it was announced today.

Irish-born actor Harry Towb whose stage and screen career spanned more than 60 years has died, it was confirmed today.

A NEW board of the overhauled Abbey Theatre was announced yesterday by Arts Minister John O’Donoghue, in a move aimed at putting expertise in place to better manage the troubled national theatre.

THE Abbey Theatre has landed the biggest grant of its history with the Arts Council awarding it €25.7 million for the next three years.

THE Abbey Theatre is to have its massive debt of €3.3 million cleared by significant additional funding from the Department of Arts, it was announced yesterday.

A JUDGE has been appointed chairman of the Abbey Theatre as the century-old institution undergoes a major reform.

MINISTER for Arts, John O’Donoghue, will have greater control over running the Abbey Theatre after its shareholders voted overwhelmingly for his proposals to overhaul the theatre’s governance at the weekend.

The Advisory Council of the Abbey Theatre have voted to accept new governance proposals changing the way the theatre is run.