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The entertainment firm owned by one of Ireland’s most successful actresses, Saoirse Ronan, recorded profits of €111,677 in its first year in business.

While he awaits news on Love/Hate, Peter Coonan is keeping busy with stage and film roles, writes Padraic Killeen

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

THE Old Vic’s version of The Crucible, due to be sccreened soon in Irish cinemas, grabs you by the throat. Arthur Miller’s timeless classic was inspired by Senator Joseph McCarthy’s hunt for communists in 1950s America but is set amidst the hysteria of the 1692 Salem witch trials in New England.

Marilyn Monroe's love letters are going up for sale.

MUSIC NEWS: The inestimable Kate Bush has struck a blow for those of us Luddites who seethe with rage at the glowing blanket of smartphones held aloft at gigs.

Daniel Day-Lewis said he was "entirely amazed" to receive a knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours.

OVER the years, there have been many odes to the city that never sleeps.

Brendan Behan died 50 years ago today. Alan O’Riordan remembers his flawed brilliance

Celebrities from Graham Norton to Jeremy Irons uncovered their family trees in the hit TV series Who Do You Think You Are? As the live show opens in London, Bill Linnane delves into his own genealogical past.

At least one of four people arrested during an investigation of actor Philip Seymour Hoffman’s suspected fatal heroin overdose had the actor’s mobile phone number.

Learning to negotiate with your partner is an important skill.

STALWART of Cork theatre, Michael Twomey, is directing Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband to celebrate 50 years of the Everyman Theatre Company.

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Michael Hilliard Mulcahy’s play, Beyond the Brooklyn Sky, deals with the generation that emigrated from Ireland in the 1980s and returned, some without having fulfilled their dreams.

Marilyn Monroe had cosmetic surgery, her medical notes revealed.

Vivien Leigh’s archive — including letters sent to husband Laurence Olivier and diaries written until just before the Gone With The Wind star’s death — have been acquired by London’s Victoria and Albert Museum&.

In the play An Enemy of the People, one man stands for right, says Pádraic Killeen.

US actor Patrick Cronin returns to his Cork roots for an iconic role, says Colette Sheridan

A music memorabilia sale spanning 60 years will thrill fans, says Colette Sheridan

Daniel Day-Lewis said it is “daft” to refer to him as the best actor to have ever lived, despite his latest triumph making him the first man to win three best actor Oscars.

The Everyman Theatre launched its Spring 2013 programme in Cork yesterday evening.

…about Lincoln star Daniel Day-Lewis.

SHORTLY after the collapse of the Soviet Union, Russian President Boris Yeltsin allowed a small number of academics to poke around in the previously secret Communist Party and KGB archives.

Katie Holmes has revealed that her Broadway performances cause her sleepless nights.

An exhibition of Monroe memorabilia in Italy proves that the iconic actress was a modern-day Venus, says Daisy Goodwin

They both died in August.

Katie Holmes is returning to Broadway.

US author Ray Bradbury has died at the age of 91, after a career of writing everything from science fiction and mystery to humour.

These celebrity couples looked unlikely and the results proved they often were, reports Margaret Carragher

Set in 1692, The Crucible, Arthur Miller’s allegorical drama of witch hunts and hysteria, is still relevant today, says Colette Sheridan.

IN A GALLERY shop the other day, surrounded by Banksy prints and street artists that were so cutting edge that nobody but the gallery owner had heard of them, there were several prints of Marilyn Monroe by the pop art god Peter Blake.

FIANNA Fáil should have a read of Arthur Miller’s The Crucible, based on the Salem witch trials, before they complete the “trial” of Ivor Callely.

CATHERINE Zeta-Jones and Douglas Hodge were winners at the Tony Awards in New York, picking up gongs for best actress and best actor in a musical.

Scarlett Johansson has been nominated for a Tony award for her Broadway debut.

Joan Collins led tributes to John Forsythe, the actor who made his fortune as the scheming oil tycoon in 'Dynasty' and the voice of the leader of 'Charlie's Angels', who died after a year-long battle with cancer.

Lucy Liu is to make her Broadway debut.

Scarlett Johansson is set to make her Broadway debut as a 17-year-old girl.

Daniel Day-Lewis - who has held Irish citizenship since 1993 - looks set to relocate to the US after his writer/director wife Rebecca Miller spoke of her desire to leave their current home in Co Wicklow.

Katie Holmes' stint on Broadway has inspired her husband Tom Cruise to set his sights on the New York stage.

Romantic Tom Cruise missed wife Katie Holmes' 30th birthday on Thursday - but arranged for her to receive an onstage celebration and an enormous cake after her performance on Broadway.