A more mature Mark O’Rowe says his new play has eased off on the visceral approach that marked his earlier work, writes Liam Heylin.

Cillian Murphy has managed to make his name in Hollywood and maintain his film integrity. He talks to Shilpa Ganatra

MUSIC NEWS: Radiohead may have got some stick recently for playing in Israel, but Thom Yorke and co are back on more solid ground with the announcement of a 20th anniversary release of their classic OK Computer album.

Enda Walsh’s new play might have dancing, but his trademark air of menace is never far from the surface, its star Charlie Murphy tells Maria Rolston

After her fun-filled turn in Catastrophe, Cork actress Eileen Walsh returns home in the Abbey’s production of a Sean O’Casey classic, writes Padraic Killeen

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Which runs in Dublin's Olympia Theatre until this Saturday November 15.

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Despite returning as Siobhán in Love/Hate, actress Charlie Murphy’s focus right now is on her role in Mark O’Rowe’s star-studded new play, writes Pádraic Killeen

Jonathan deBurca Butler asks five culture vultures to give their recommendations for the final weeks of the summer so you don’t miss the best of what’s on offer

THE past 18 months have seen Mark O’Regan putting together some gallery of rogues on the Irish stage. In the Abbey Theatre’s Alice in Funderland he played an insidiously smug politician, the ‘Minister for All Your Needs’.

THOUGH he’s popularly known as ‘Nidge’ from RTÉ’s hit drama Love/Hate, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor has been a much admired stage actor for many years.

Heralded as Steven Soderbergh’s final movie, Side Effects (15A) opens up in sombre fashion, as psychiatrist Dr Jonathan Banks (Jude Law) attempts to treat a patient, Emily (Rooney Mara), with a combination of anti-depressants.

Dublin’s film festival mixes star power with an impressive roster of movies, says Pádraic Killeen

John Paul Murphy’s first play debuted off Broadway and is now on its way to Ballymun, says Pádraic Killeen

IN response to your editorial of June 19 dealing with the temporary closure of the Opera House in Cork and the question posed in it – “when did our national theatre – the Abbey – last bring a production to the south?” – the answer is September 2009, when the award-winning play Terminus, by Mark O’Rowe, was presented by the Abbey on the stage of the Everyman Palace Theatre.

A COMEDY thriller starring Brendan Gleeson and Cillian Murphy is set to begin filming in Dublin next month.

The Abbey Theatre and playwright Mark O’Rowe have scooped a prestigious award at the Edinburgh Festival in Scotland.

Colin Farrell today said it was a “great craic” to be in his native Ireland for the filming of his new film interMission.