Beckett’s legacy endures, and reaches far beyond the written word

'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled

Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’

`Everything I do is autobiographical,' says the film-maker, so what are we to make of 'mother!', the maddest movie of the year, which stars his psychologically tortured real-life girlfriend Jennifer Lawrence

The gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out now

The Belfast poet on his latest collection and the ‘clickety-clickety-click’ thrill of writing

Elisabeth Moss stars in nightmarish vision of a future that doesn’t feel as far off as it once did

Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

In later years his face developed creases like the famous ‘lived-in’ face of Samuel Beckett

With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David Irving

You can’t keep the darkly comic writer from the theatre – hardly surprising for a ‘frustrated actor’. He talks about his play Autumn Royal

If the academy wanted to honour a music icon, Paul Simon would be a better choice

Dread that shaped Pinter’s play never materialises in this new production

Ireland’s amateur drama season is an eccentric, ambitious concept, with 54 productions touring 37 festivals. And the stories are as good off the stage as on it

Aidan Higgins: March 3rd, 1927 - December 27th, 2015

Author described as ‘the missing link between high modernism and the present’

From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives

Colin Welland: July 4th, 1934 - November 2nd, 2015

Friel established himself as an heir to the silences of Beckett and father to the tradition of monologue drama

An edited extract of the award-winning actor’s acceptance speech at the ‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards

Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Toby Frow’s production of Pinter’s 1960 play sticks too scrupulously to the text

With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels

The plays of the ‘Howie the Rookie’ writer are dark, complex affairs. With his new work, ‘Our Few and Evil Days’, about to open at the Abbey Theatre, even he admits he doesn’t fully know what makes them tick

Dora Bryan: February 7th, 1923 - July 23rd, 2014

The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth

Echo’s Bones a relatively minor work, but it’s pungent early Beckett

From Jane Eyre’s madwoman in the attic to Captain Ahab in Moby Dick and Francie in The Butcher Boy, madness is a recurring and compelling theme in literature

"I wouldn’t consider myself a film buff, really,” says the Irish star of Game of Thrones as he talks about his hand-picked selection of classic 1970s flicks screening in Cork

In his revealing new documentary ‘Utopia’, distinguished journalist John Pilger paints a bleak picture of life for the aboriginal people of his native Australia

The extension of information obsession to the field of intimacy ruins the mystery, poetry and suspense

Lia Williams tackled her role in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by researching Tennessee Williams – ‘because he is Blanche’

Reginald Gray: 1930-2013

The veteran actor returns to Dublin to perform ‘Krapp’s Last Tape’, in a role he has been developing for more than a decade

Rachel Weisz, star of Disney’s Oz the Great and Powerful, talks feminism, witches and Elizabeth Taylor