Walter Asmus

In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future

It’s taken eight years for this tour diary to make it on to our screens, and for Johnny Murphy it marked the end of his acting road

A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers

Beckett asks more of actors than any other writer: so how do you prepare to play his most demanding roles?

Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’

The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth

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Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue

60 years on and we're still crazy about Waiting for Godot, Beckett’s most famous play