An acclaimed actress has quit a New York play, claiming co-star Alec Baldwin threw temper tantrums and punched a hole in a dressing-room wall.

The assistant director of the Traveller resource centre Pavee Point is one of two people being questioned by gardaí after being arrested during a protest in Dublin.

British actress Natasha Richardson will portray Tennessee Williams’s fragile, faded Southern beauty Blanche du Bois in a Broadway revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, opening next spring.