David Hare

BBC delivers a cliché of British TV drama: Sarah Greene’s alcoholic Irish woman

Greene plays an Irish journalist opposite Hugh Laurie’s Boris Johnson-like politician in Roadkill

Sun Oct 18 2020 - 23:41

John le Carré: new novel set amid ‘lunacy’ of Brexit with UK run by ‘10th-raters’

Read an extract from Agent Running in the Field, which will be published next month

Mon Sept 09 2019 - 14:39

With another Matrix film, maybe we really are living in a simulation

Humans approach much of life in a deluded trance. Hence the jubilation about sequels to mediocre films

Sat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00

Best of Irish: Ten exciting people on the Irish food scene right now

Best of Irish: In advance of St Patrick’s Day, we celebrate leading lights of our creative industries

Wed Mar 13 2019 - 10:00

Bruno Ganz, actor who played Hitler in ‘Downfall’, dies aged 77

Actor, who was diagnosed with cancer, was a key figure in German cinema

Sat Feb 16 2019 - 16:39

The psychodramas unfurling everyday day in Ikea

‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy

Tue Jul 03 2018 - 06:00

Rupert Everett: ‘Lots of my friends got sick. I got famous’

The ‘Happy Prince’ star on being gay, playing Oscar Wilde, and surviving the film world

Fri Jun 15 2018 - 05:00

Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The Gate

John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate

Tue Jan 30 2018 - 05:00

From Derry Girls to Cork offenders: unmissable TV for 2018

Ring out (or recommission) the old; ring in the new: here’s what to stay tuned for in the new year

Sat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00

Royal wedding 70th anniversary comes amid mix of media portraits

London Letter: TV and books paint scenes of adultery and unhappiness in regal cocoon

Fri Nov 24 2017 - 01:00

Rachel Weisz: ‘Holocaust denial didn’t affect me until the internet age’

With a background in avant garde theatre, the actress broke big with ‘The Mummy’. Now she plays historian Deborah Lipstadt, who took on Holocaust denier David Irving

Fri Jan 27 2017 - 05:33

Richard Ford, Joyce Carol Oates, David Hare and more on the rise of Donald Trump

A selection of writers pick the books that best make sense of the US election, and the ones that predicted the rise of a Trump-style candidate

Mon Aug 15 2016 - 11:39

Player power: GAA has become no country for old men

Players are finding it harder to stay playing as injury, burn-out and life get in the way

Sat Jan 23 2016 - 01:00

Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry

Fri Jan 22 2016 - 07:00

Review | Chekhov’s First Play: ‘Platonov is the black hole at the heart of this brilliant endeavour’

Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention

Mon Sept 28 2015 - 12:08

We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015

A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told

Wed Dec 31 2014 - 03:00