From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
Nicole Kidman stars in a kinky office romance, Reese Witherspoon and Will Ferrell play wedding planners, and Éanna Hardwicke and Steve Coogan replay Saipan
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Saipan will follow the infamous 2002 World Cup feud between Ireland’s football captain and manager
Controversy still rages around dispute between captain and manager at Ireland soccer camp before 2002 Fifa World Cup
The director’s films have often stirred discontent. With his latest political thriller, Shoshana, set in 1930s Tel Aviv, he knows he must be ready for pushback
Television: As the curtains close, it is still not clear what the BBC had hoped to achieve
TV review: At moments The Reckoning is too awful to sit through. At the same time, Steve Coogan’s ability to recreate Jimmy Savile’s cheesy anticharm is uncanny
Television: Drama seems uninterested in the institutional indifference that enabled the DJ’s years of sex abuse
Donald Clarke: Some documentaries stand accused as offering up sex abuse victims’ stories as ‘entertainment’ - but nobody is suggesting these films are fun
‘It’s the oldest journalistic trick in the book. Coogan has fallen for it hook, line and sinker’
Pleas to save Channel 4 took centre stage on Sunday night amid uncertainty over future
The Swedish actor stars in a new Viking epic full of revenge, nudity and Nordic berserkers
High Court agrees to hear two of eight challenges in late October or November
‘Bantz’? The truth is Brits can’t conceive of anyone not wanting to be British
Unthinkable: The original ‘sage-wannabes’ of Athens were considered slightly weird, a new book reveals
‘The whole history between the British and the Irish runs through me’, says Coogan
The comedian has applied for and expects his Irish passport soon. ‘That’s not a joke,’ he says
Winterbottom’s latest is not completely without merit but we deserve more creative satire
Programme includes documentary on feisty New Yorker writer Pauline Kael
End your film with shocking statistics? No way, the studio told Michael Winterbottom
Knives Out, Joker, Jojo Rabbit, The Goldfinch and The Report among the contenders
Toronto film festival: Opening weekend also included Knives Out, Greed and Sea Fever
Donald Clarke runs the rule over the likely winners ahead of this week’s festival trifecta
Killing Eve, Ant and Dec among winners. Benedict Cumberbatch scoops best actor
Series review: Alan Partridge, the new Emperor of England, knows he’s naked
Ruan Pienaar’s departure proved to be key as scrumhalf made move to Belfast from Connacht
It has been on Alan Partridge and a Brady’s ham ad. So what does the rebel song mean?
BBC One viewers treated to a stirring rendition of the rebel song on the ‘This Time with Alan Partridge’ show
London Letter: Leave-veering audiences to lose out to capital’s output
‘Guess who’s back in the big time?’ he gloats in hilarious first episode of new show
Chatshow host, returning to present ‘This Time’, gives out his BBC email address
25 years since Alan Partridge first appeared on screen, his creator explains why a divided nation needs him more than ever
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
