And Element Pictures scoop 10 prizes for ‘The Favourite’ at British Independent Film Awards

Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’

Following on from her work on the stage and TV, Jessie Buckley now makes her big-screen debut in ‘Beast’ – a bow that is cause for great excitement in her native Co Kerry

Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers

Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve

With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?

Oscar-nominated actor on breaking through age barriers, Harry Potter and why she hates Irish dancing

The news that Spielberg is remaking ‘West Side Story’ drew some fire, but some of our best-loved films are remakes or ‘fresh’ adaptations of original novels. Need we go on?

The Friedrichstrasse ‘Palast’s’ latest spectacle, `The One', is an orgy of colour and style with costumes by French fashion icon Jean-Paul Gaultier

Democratic nominee rebuked by Trump camp following fundraiser comments

From Alan Cumming singing about Liza Minnelli to a heart-stopping play about depression, this year’s festival has had it all

He wowed Sundance and impressed at Audi Dublin International Film Festival – the teenage musician and actor is perfectly cast as director John Carney’s movie alter-ego

The veteran actor, best known for playing Jessica Fletcher in ‘Murder, She Wrote’, credits Cork with saving her family. It’s just one of many plot twists in her extraordinary life

Great fun for all ages

The national academy produced its first trained actors this year; can it become one of the best drama academies in the world?

Rough Magic’s Seeds double bill is perhaps the most auspicious and brilliant of the company’s culminations yet

Killarney’s Jessie Buckley is to share a stage with Jude Law in a West End production of ‘Henry V’. The experience has been terrifying and ‘completely liberating’

The musical based on John Waters’s 1988 film is frothy but has a social message