Pool (No Water) review: Five stars for this Mark Ravenhill play featuring Evanna Lynch
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: The Everyman’s production puts the Metropole Hotel’s empty swimming pool to extremely effective use
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Evanna Lynch: ‘With another set of parents, in another time, I would have been dismissed as mad’
The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival
Ben Whishaw: ‘I don’t find acting helps my social anxiety’
The actor talks about his off-stage shyness and his latest role in This Is Going to Hurt
The Belfast Ensemble brings its 3-day Bash to the Lyric Theatre
A retrospective celebration of the extraordinary canon of work in just two years
Dominic Cooper: ‘Working with ex-girlfriends? What's the alternative? Sulk in a corner?’
How he nearly didn’t go for Mamma Mia! and why we need more women on film sets
Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate
John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate
Marc Almond: ‘I never felt confident in myself as a songwriter’
The hedonistic years and a near-death experience took their toll on Marc Almond, but he remains productive and still has a knack for reimagining others’ songs
The cultural quotes of the year: madness, middle age and mother’s advice
A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers
‘The Westbury is more representative of my life than an alleyway strewn with needles’
Mark Ravenhill says he has a ‘desperate need to be liked’, but when it comes to provocation the playwright can’t seem to help himself
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