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An Irishman’s Diary

Kathleen Marshall and Simon Callow on eye-popping new production of classic musical

Swearing is big and clever. Just listen to Olivia Rodrigo, or look at the streaming figures

An Irishman’s Diary

Politics of addressing climate change still debilitating as planet sizzles

Niall Mullen’s Summer Interior and Historical Sale also includes antique Steinway

The actor has drawn on his experience of addiction to portray the fashion designer Halston

As a summation of every cinematic evasion about the sexual act it is close to perfect

Netflix’s 1940s-Hollywood drama is brimming with petroleum-based rumpy pumpy

The designer talks bees, waste and growing up in Lourdes ahead of project at the RHA

The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood

That’s Maths: Famous for his ballads, Lehrer was also one of the great satirists of his time

The falsehoods, euphemisms and face-saving ruses that helped make us what we are

The ex-Moloko singer on the freedom and heartbreak that inspired her favourite tracks