Royal Shakespeare Company

Actor went from RSC and Pinter to stardom as Bilbo Baggins and as an android in Alien

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

Billie Whitelaw: June 6th, 1932 - December 21st, 2014

Tara Brady talks to the English actor about going from lord of the manor to friend of the bear

Ahead of tonight's live relay of Kenneth MacMillan’s ‘Manon’ in selected cinema’s around the country, the Royal Ballet’s Director, Kevin O’Hare, reveals how he went from appearing in Bugsy Malone to leading Britain’s largest ballet company

Donald Sinden born 9 October 1923; died 11 September 2014

British actor had more than 70 credits for film and TV productions since late 1940s

'We're like two old slippers'

Helen Mirren on traumas, triumphs and the biggest lie ever told about her

Actor who played role of Nursie dies in London care home

Henry V

From the campus to the Peacock, all the world’s a stage for lecture series on the Bard

President tells of poignant moment when memories of IRA father flooded back

President leaves Windsor before concluding trip with visits to Stratford-upon-Avon and Coventry

President and his wife driven away from Heathrow in a maroon coloured Bentley flying an Irish tricolour

President’s visit follows the successful visit of Queen Elizabeth to Ireland in 2011

Cautious and couched, Emily Watson is an actor who exhibits reason and calm at every turn. So how did such a sober person find herself in such as dangerous business? “I was pretty bloody minded . . .”

The Shed, an intimate space at home to experimental theatre, seems like a venue designed to suit the times. At the heart of its success is Ben Power, a dramaturg, ‘shadowy figure’ and Shakespeare’s ‘remixer’

The continuing hegemony of the Abbey is hurting Irish theatre as a whole, and it is hurting the Abbey even more. First and foremost, artistic leadership must be restored to the organisation

Camille O’Sullivan gives the wronged Lucrece a powerful voice as Shakespeare’s text is condensed into 12 songs

Gerard Murphy - Born: October 14th, 1948; Died August 26th, 2013