Michael James Ford

Fair City actor Karl Shiels, who died suddenly last Monday aged just 47, “filled his life and lived it to the full”, his funeral Mass has been told. (...)

The actor and director Pat Laffan was remembered as a lovable, gruff curmudgeon during his funeral Mass in Dublin on Tuesday. Laffan was a man who co(...)

More than 300 actors, directors, designers, agents and playwrights have complained to the Minister for Culture about the Abbey Theatre’s recently adop(...)

THIRST (AND OTHER BITS OF FLANN) Abbey Theatre, Peacock stage, Dublin. Previews Dec 18 Opens Dec 19-Jan 5 9pm (Sat mat 3pm) (New Year’s Eve 8pm) €16/€(...)

No Smoke Without Fire Linenhall Theatre, Castlebar, Co Mayo Tuesday June 5th 8pm €16/€14 thelinenhall.com If ever there was an actor y(...)

Mr Burns, A post-electric play Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Ends Dec 9 7.30pm €18/€14 projectartscentre.ie Not only has it become considerably easier (...)

Lyric Theatre, Belfast **** Belfast in the early 1980s was a perilous place and time. With random violence on the streets and political negotiation(...)

On the evening of March 6th, 1921, the auditorium at the Lyric Theatre in New York was full. The newest film from Metro Studios, The Four Horsemen of (...)

How Many Miles to Babylon? Lyric Theatre, Belfast ***There are just two deaths described in Jennifer Johnston’s 1974 novella, set during the outbreak (...)

Bewley’s Cafe Theatre, Dublin *** Do poets get the biographies they deserve? Or is it bette(...)