Before Blue, Duncan James was focused on a career in musical theatre. He’s finally returning to his roots with a role in The Rocky Horror Show, he tells Esther McCarthy.

“Is it ever OK to rape someone?” asks Jay Conway, the scenery-chewing Irish-American Oscar-winner about to take the lead in a West End production of the new play by hot young Irish playwright Ruth Davenport.

The Cork actor won the award for his work in Martin McDonagh's "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" which ran in the West End last year.

The black comedy, which also starred Aiden Gillen, is the second play in McDonagh’s Aran Islands Trilogy.

The Arts Council has revealed it has withheld hundreds of thousands of euro in funding for the Abbey Theatre, amid concerns the venue’s direction has resulted in fewer opportunities for Irish artists.

The enormous success of Hamilton has underlined the enduring appeal of musical theatre. Marjorie Brennan selects the best shows of the year ahead.

It was the role he always dreamt of, and now Killian Donnelly returns to Ireland in a West End production as Jean Valjean, writes Esther McCarthy.

The musical tells the true story of 7,000 air passengers stranded in Newfoundland, Canada during the wake of 9/11.

Simone Collins is an actress from Dublin. She is playing Dorothy in Cork Opera House’s summer production of The Wizard of Oz (July 19 to August 26.

International opera star Rachel Kelly is coming home to sing at the Blackwater Valley Opera Festival. She talks to Cathy Desmond.

The Meath native began his career in Navan as a member of the St Mary's Musical Society.

‘SUPERFICIAL, flighty, witty and effervescent,” is how director, Michael Cabot, of London Classic Theatre, always regarded the work of Noel Coward whose play, Private Lives, is at Cork’s Everyman.

A power cut has plunged London's busy West End into darkness.

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A Dublin doctor found herself as Michael McIntyre’s unexpected star this week and knocked it out of the park.

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Passengers were evacuated from Holborn station in London's West End today amid reports of a fire.

Annie opens at the Opera House next week. Ciara McDonnell joins the cast in rehearsals to see what it takes to bring the musical to the stage

Slapstick comedy and tumbling sets provided the belly laughs in The Play that Goes Wrong, writes Ed Power.

Irish men are shedding their inhibitions and hitting the dance floor, thanks to the success of TV shows like Dancing with the Stars, says Jonathan deBurca Butler

Given wizardry is her forte, it comes as no surprise that JK Rowling’s particular brand of magic has extended to sales of a script inspired by one of her stories — Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Parts One and Two has become the fastest-selling script of all time.

We met up with Dublin-born Risteárd Cooper - one third of the Après Match crew - to find out what makes him tick. 

Eoghan O’Sullivan shares the latest news from the world of showbiz

All bridges lead to Galway's West End in a new video telling the story of the area and how the people have thrived in recent years.

Arsenal football star Jack Wilshere was spotted after an "altercation" broke out between two groups of men while he was on a night out in London's West End, according to reports.

The heir to a multimillion-pound nightclub empire has been jailed for 13 and a half years for stabbing his father to death after years of being treated as his “whipping boy”.

More than 100 cinemas in the UK and Ireland will be screening the upcoming special episode of Sherlock: The Abominable Bride, on January 1st, 2016.

Here's a few tips on what to watch tonight on TV.

It’s ran in the West End, Broadway, and even Korea. As the award-winning Once opens in Dublin, John Meagher takes a look behind the scenes — and chats to Glen Hansard about seeing his real-life relationship on stage.

RICKSHAW drivers occupy a ubiquitous presence on the streets of the West End. But most Londoners never even give them a moment’s thought.

A 50-year-old man told a court he was “bribed” by the offer of home- cooked bacon and cabbage to cut the back lawn of his mother’s property — but insisted he ate the meal with mustard on the porch and believed he did not breach an order not to enter her home.

BALLYMORE Properties has not gone away.

He’s one of the greatest actors of his generation but, as Michael Gambon prepares to exit stage left, he tells Deirdre Reynolds he wouldn’t like to be starting out now

From demolishing the field at Quail Hollow to wowing crowds during a London store appearance, there has been little in the last 72 hours to suggest Rory McIlroy is anything other than the master of all he surveys.