2+ hour, 5+ min ago  (546+ words) Written in 1913, and receiving a rare revival, George Fitzmaurice's one-act comedy, first performed at the Abbey, is a curiosity championed by a band of academics who argue that its author was unfairly maligned by the theatrical establishment and deserves reinstatement…...

5+ hour, 49+ min ago  (234+ words) To me, all the people I play are totally different," Dame Penelope Keith said in 2009. I've been lucky enough to play two of the greatest parts in situation comedy written for women, and that was wonderful." Looking back, we now…...

1+ day, 14+ hour ago  (892+ words) The Irish Times Happy birthday, Mel Brooks: 100 gloriously tasteless years. Long may you remain above ground Brooks continues to live one of the great American lives. Let's break with tradition and celebrate him while he's still alive "Let's swing, sing,…...

4+ day, 5+ hour ago  (392+ words) Danger, shit, puke. That's what this show is all about," someone says halfway through Jackass's latest carnival of depravity. It's a good line. It's also an old one. Few citizens even vaguely at home to the inappropriate will fail to…...

3+ week, 4+ day ago  (315+ words) One is tempted to suggest that, beneath the shallow surface, Savage House shares as much spiritual stuffing with Barry Lyndon as Spaceballs does with 2001: A Space Odyssey, but that would be (a little) unfair to Peter Glanz's gangrenous black comedy....

4+ week, 1+ day ago  (1895+ words) There's something to draw the eye everywhere you look: a polytunnel at the rear of the house, a slab of wood repurposed as a footbridge, ivy creeping up the walls, a wreath adding pep to the front door, new bay…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (746+ words) The late comedian and actor Jon Kenny, best known for his work alongside Pat Shortt in D'Unbelievables, bought 20 acres of land near Bruff, Co Limerick, with his wife Margy in 2001, and they proceeded to build their dream home and create…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1649+ words) Bob Odenkirk, star of Better Call Saul and the outlandish action comedy Nobody, is gearing up for the ninth " possibly 10th " viewing of his new film. It's brave territory for an actor who doesn't like to see himself on screen. The…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago  (280+ words) For those of us who had never heard of Ray Goggins, it was difficult to fathom how he had landed his own globe-trotting adventure show last year. His aura was Roy Keane mixed with a stern PE teacher convinced you'd…...

1+ mon, 3+ week ago  (348+ words) Amanda is reintroduced making a Dragon's Den-style pitch to a potential "Far East investor. In other words, the bank manager at her local HSBC branch. Here and elsewhere, a crueller show would portray her as catastrophically deluded. But Amandaland skimps…...