She "regarded it as a privilege to represent her Irish actors both at home and abroad," a friend says. By Mike Barnes Senior Editor In the early 1980s, Hayden, coming from a background in finance, ...

Capturing the essence of Samuel Beckett—the comedian from the void, the dour absurdist—is the challenge director James Marsh sets for himself in “Dance First,” in which Gabriel Byrne stars as the ...

A longtime couple’s relationship unravels after a body is found in Hannah Patterson’s adaptation at Chichester Festival ...

When the Irish actor Gabriel Byrne was first approached to play the role of Samuel Beckett, one of Ireland’s greatest literary heroes, he hesitated. “I wrestled with the idea,” Byrne says on a recent ...

It would be hard to imagine a genre more antithetical to the modernist sensibility of Samuel Beckett than the biopic. The Irish writer who relocated to Paris, found inspiration in the French language ...

"Even in that horrible place, they couldn't turn off the stars..." Magnolia has revealed an official trailer for the film titled Dance First, an intriguing biopic about the life of literary genius ...

Actor Gabriel Byrne may play a therapist on TV, but he's never actually been to therapy himself. Instead, he prepared for his role on HBO's In Treatment by drawing on his experience as an observer.

One year ago, Congress defunded public media. Now that we're 100% community funded, please become a sustaining member or increase your existing membership today. Listen 39:34 Actor Gabriel Byrne is so ...

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