Stephen Sondheim

Marriage Story: A bitter divorce war with a surprisingly soft heart

Review: Scarlett Johansson has never been better and Adam Driver is equally good in Noah Baumbach’s breakup tale

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

Irish Repertory Theatre: casting O’Casey’s shadow over Manhattan

To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy

David Shire: a Grammy in one fist, an Oscar in the other

The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood

Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

‘I’m pretty buzzing’: Irish actor Jessie Buckley wins best newcomer award in Britain

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

Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre

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

‘We limit ourselves. We’re told to behave in a certain way from birth’

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

‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatre

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

Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aim

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

A shortcut to immortality: kill the president

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

Imelda Staunton: The Irish dancing teacher slapped me. I thought ‘I’m never coming back’

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

Hollywood’s problem is endless sequels, not remakes

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?

Lost in grandeur with Jean-Paul Gaultier in `The One'

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

Clinton calls half of Trump supporters ‘deplorables’

Democratic nominee rebuked by Trump camp following fundraiser comments

Ten of the best shows at the Edinburgh festivals

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