Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton take seats at Abbey in Dublin for Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi one-off
Stars take part in reading of Sam Shepard’s play Ages of the Moon for Irish national theatre’s Love at First Sight season
Sam Shepard
Steve Buscemi to join fellow star Aidan Quinn for Abbey Theatre performance
Buscemi and Quinn will read Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon at the Irish national theatre in Dublin this weekend
Sean Bean: ‘My next show is about a 27-year marriage – which isn’t something I know about’
The actor likes to play people unlike himself: be it a prisoner or a long-term married man
Bob Dylan at 80: The master musician’s 39 albums, ranked
To mark Dylan’s 80th birthday, superfan Ian O’Riordan rates his studio albums
‘The first day I was a ball of nerves’: Paul Dano’s directorial debut
Actor discusses crafting screenplay for ‘Wildlife’ alongside partner Zoe Kazan
Lean on Pete: Horse and boy film is an emotional knockout
Review: Charlie Plummer shows himself to be the best young actor of his generation
Catherine Keener: ‘I did not know about Harvey Weinstein at all’
Onetime queen of indie flicks on her good Catholic upbringing, the #MeToo movement and her latest role in Irish director Alan Gilsenan’s adaptation of a Carol Shields novel
‘You meet certain actors and it’s just... no’
Brad’s Status director Mike White on the blurred lines between comedy and drama
Rest in peace ... They died in 2017
Irish and international stars of film, music, politics, sport and real life who left us this year
Sam Shepard: Actor, writer and American icon
Obituary: The Pulitzer winner captured the fractured American dream
‘Seamus Heaney gave us permission to speak in our own voice’
Heaney’s ‘Aeneid’ is Virgil via way of the North. Two of the late poet’s friends, Stephen Rea and Neil Martin, ponder his legacy as they prepare to stage his version
Body and Soul day two: Rain fails to dampen spirits
The second night of the festival features sets from Saint Sister, Neon Indian and Floating Points among others
Bloodline: a hot and humid family drama that rewards patience
The slow-burning, finely acted Netflix drama is made for attentive viewing
A taste of Bob Dylan: 10 songs to beat The Band
Sheer, dizzying, heartbreaking brilliance: superfan Joseph O'Connor's selects his playlist
An open letter to Bob Dylan from Joseph O’Connor
Joseph O’Connor remembers a wintry walk on Dún Laoghaire pier with his first girlfriend and a presence from a car radio late at night as he drove the streets of London
Stephen Rea: ‘I can’t imagine teams of loyalists rolling up to watch it’
Stephen Rea stars as a paranoid loyalist in ‘Cyprus Avenue’ at the Abbey
Culture Shock: Stephen Rea on his belief in the cleansing power of theatre
An edited extract of the award-winning actor’s acceptance speech at the ‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards
Stephen Rea to receive Irish Times Special Tribute Award
Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Zabriskie Point review: Still properly blows the mind
Michelangelo Antonioni’s groovy free-form symphony hits US 1960s counterculture right on the nail
Philip Seymour Hoffman: a strange kind of movie star
Rather than being bullied into adoration by tub-thumping promotion, filmgoers felt they had discovered Hoffman all on their own
The Oedipal predicament: ‘It doesn’t have a plot’
Sam Shepard is going back to the source with his new take on Oedipus. Like his hero, does he know what he’s looking for?
A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)
Sam Shepard’s brilliant new version of Oedipus Rex for Derry’s Field Day folds Greek myth into an ageless Americana
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