Tennessee Williams

Artist was best known for work with opera singers and on Shakespeare plays

London Letter: ‘Powerful and obnoxious odour of mendacity’ surrounds Boris Johnson

The revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of wit

The Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s play

Some think she’s ‘a bit frightening’, including in Neil Jordan’s Greta, but the star couldn’t be nicer

It’s almost impossible to function without an electronic device. They have left us powerless

Dublin Theatre Festival: An acerbic, postmodern riff on Edward Albee’s classic

Hunter embodied the clean-cut image but was forced to deny his gay sexuality for years

The actor, who made his breakthrough in The Hateful Eight, puts the same thought into his Tomb Raider character that another actor might reserve for Richard III

Although Givenchy never lacked wealthy customers, he was uncomfortable with the extravagant showmanship of couture from the mid-1970s

The lost theatres of Dublin revealed

Obituary: RSC founder introduced audiences to Beckett with first ‘Waiting for Godot’

The star of ‘The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo’ on Jim Sheridan's ‘The Secret Scripture’ and how her friend Cate Blanchett helped her get cast in sexual abuse drama ‘Una’

Relying entirely on tax incentivised market solutions has not provided the pensions coverage or adequacy citizens need

Ahead of a visit to Galway, the Belgian director reveals his vision for theatre, his admiration for Ronan and why he insists that actors tell him they love him

The frustration is almost tantric in this new production of Tennessee Williams' play

Journalist decided ‘he could wait no longer for government to be formed’, mourners told

Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre

Friel established himself as an heir to the silences of Beckett and father to the tradition of monologue drama

‘Itinerant director’ Ethan McSweeny is bringing his outsider’s eye to Brian Friel’s translation of A Month in the Country at the Gate

As an actor you may have only a few lines – or none at all – but you can still make the most of a role, as Dee Burke, who’s appearing in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Abbey, and John Doran, who features in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Gate, are proving

Brought to Book Q&A: Author of The Judas Kiss and City of Dis on what he reads and how he writes

From the Gleesons’ ‘Walworth Farce’ to a 3D pen, there’s a perfect present for the artist in your life

Review: John Lahr’s huge biography of Tennessee Williams absorbs from start to finish

With the Dublin Theatre Festival kicking off this week, here are ten playwrights who have also penned novels

Review: The deterioration of Behan’s health and talent during his three-year love affair with the US is the subject of a fascinating book

The Winners

Tomorrow, this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards will be presented. The nominees for best actor and best actress talk about the roles they play

Adrian Dunbar, who takes the lead role in a play about the twilight of Brendan Behan’s life, thinks the time is right to resuscitate his legacy

Woody Allen descends to his version of slumming, with toxically witty results, writes Donald Clarke

Cate Blanchett's latest performance in Woody Allen’s ’Blue Jasmine’ – as a vodka-and-Xanax-swilling woman on the brink of breaking point – must have been quite a stretch for the immaculately casual mother-of-three

Reviewed by Eileen Battersby

Lia Williams tackled her role in ‘A Streetcar Named Desire’ by researching Tennessee Williams – ‘because he is Blanche’

The Appalachian writer Ron Rash brings his dark southern tales to the Kilkenny Arts Festival

Louise McSharry’s exploration of light topics makes her an engaging stand-in for Ryan Tubridy on 2fm

What makes the lead performances so compelling in this version of ‘Streetcar’ is that each actor subtly plays their character against type

Maurice Good: Born: June 8th, 1932Died: May 10th, 2013

Lee Daniels’s follow-up to Precious is not subtle