Jimmy Smyth, Peter McGinnity and Jim Neilly remember the golden days

The actor on Brexit and Irishness, her Derry childhood, being independent and Quentin Tarantino

We must ensure the super rich don’t get a pass because they fling money at the arts

Chronic anxiety prevents him touring, but classical music offers an outlet

The actor and director talks Shakespeare ‘trutherism’ and his working-class upbringing

For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years

Still feisty and busy at 85, Sheila Hancock remains connected to the zeitgeist

Like its protagonist, Matilda the Musical is not afraid to be clever, while Beckett’s words are put to music in Gare Saint Lazare’s Here All Night at the Abbey and beyond

Roald Dahl’s novel may be 30 years old, but this adaptation from the Royal Shakespeare Company resonates chillingly

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

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

People celebrating a female Doctor Who as a symbol of increasing gender equality have got it wrong

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

Century on from author’s birth, group’s goal is to make every child in the world a fan

This week on Róisín Meets . . . the actor talks open marriage and Waking the Feminists

Frank Finlay: August 6th, 1926 – January 30th, 2016

Donald Clarke on the late actor, a funny, warm man in person, who could never quite shake the whiff of brimstone on screen

Hollywood star who shot to global acclaim as Hans Gruber in Die Hard was suffering from cancer

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

There’s a terrifying rage in her play ‘By the Bog of Cats’, which is reopening at the Abbey Theatre – and it’s an anger as old as the Greeks