Richard Dormer

Bojack Horseman: not puns or pastiche, but great comedy pedigree

The Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long run

‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’

Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre

Amy Conroy: ‘I didn’t know how to be the girl I was supposed to be’

Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about families

Was the demise of the Celtic Tiger the saviour of Irish theatre?

New anthology explores how playwrights responded to a country - and a theatre - in crisis

Television: Blizzard of oddballs trapped in a cold climate

Review: ‘Fortitude’, starring Sophie Grabol, Stanley Tucci and Christopher Ecclestone; Room to Improve; Phil Spencer: Secret Agent; Touched By Auschwitz; and How to Get Way With Murder

The dark side of the moon landing

Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters

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Stage Struck

Why believing isn’t always seeing

Good Vibrations

Middle-aged kicks

Richard Dormer, star of new film Good Vibrations, talks Northern punk, his passion for acting and the day he met Hurricane Higgins

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