Queen’s University Belfast academic Richard Schoch says the American composer’s works are high art that explore the human condition with precision, and remain fresh for each new generation
Theatre: If you know the musical only from the 1961 and 2021 film versions, you’ll find Lonny Price’s staging a surprise
Ukraine’s president Zelenskiy makes cameo at scandal free ceremony after Oscars chaos
The performer and actor on playing the classic role of Anita in Steven Spielberg's remake
Review: Steven Spielberg revives Bernstein and Sondheim’s classic musical for the screen
Stephen Sondheim wrote the lyrics for West Side Story, and composed Sweeney Todd
The Hamilton creator reflects on his career and his debut film, Tick, Tick… Boom!
Dear Evan Hansen screen adaptation comes during a fraught period for the always imperilled genre
Will the critics let them be sexagenarian murderers in peace? I wouldn’t count on it
The NCH’s Tea Dance Tunes on Zoom are bringing music into homes and care facilities
The Oscar-nominated Marriage Story actor on why he will not watch himself on screen
Review: Scarlett Johansson has never been better and Adam Driver is equally good in Noah Baumbach’s breakup tale
A retrospective celebration of the extraordinary canon of work in just two years
To celebrate 30 years in New York, the company is staging the playwright’s ‘Dublin’ trilogy
The film composer was having a fine time even before he landed in Hollywood
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
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’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
