Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked ...

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NPR's Rob Schmitz speaks with Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason about the band's epic album "Wish You Were Here" as it's reissued 50 years after its release.

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JM Synge’s 118-year-old Irish state-of-the-nation play is both wonderfully dated and entirely apposite to the present age.

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Woody Allen's relationship with disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein is coming under scrutiny after new photos of the pair were released.

The National Theatre has a long record of starry revivals so this version of John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the ...

Let no one say that theatre cannot have real-world consequences: when it premiered at the Abbey in Dublin, Playboy sparked riots that spread to the streets, thanks to its portrayal of a little ...

Unless you’re fluent in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Hiberno-English, John Millington Synge’s The Playboy of the Western ...