The Cork actor is having quite the year, with Saipan en route to cinemas and his London role in The Playboy of the Western World ...

The nonagenarian director is taking a slightly different tack than many of the other powerful people associated with the ...

But there is no need for excessive anxiety about the Swift legacy, no matter how many sledgehammers she wields. The filtering ...

Soon he’s gone viral — or the early 20th-century equivalent — only to be abruptly (and violently) cancelled when his story ...

Quin is the perfect foil to Pegeen – the two women bounce off each other in a series of sharp, wickedly funny exchanges. As ...

JM Synge’s 118-year-old Irish state-of-the-nation play is both wonderfully dated and entirely apposite to the present age.

Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked ...

The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the ...

Nicola Coughlan, of Derry Girls and Bridgerton fame, is the main draw for this revival of JM Synge’s once scandalous 1907 ...

Considered the first Irish “state of the nation” play, it’s now turned into a historical vignette imbued with hoarse black comedy. Its long placid rests are interrupted regularly by blazes of humorous ...

Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked riots that spread to the streets, thanks to its portrayal of a little ...

Unless you’re fluent in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hiberno-English, John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western ...