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 ...

In a brilliant career stretching over four decades, Gabriel Byrne has had a long, successful association with Ireland’s titanic playwright Eugene O’Neill. Now with “Dance First” Bryne, 74, tackles ...

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 ...

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 ...

Ana de Armas twirls into the franchise as a ballerina-assassin with vengeance on her mind in this by-the-numbers cash grab. By Jeannette Catsoulis Samuel Beckett’s life is reduced to mommy and daddy ...

Fionn O’Shea, Sandrine Bonnaire and Aidan Gillen also star in this fragmented account of the Irish existentialist writer’s life, framed by his reluctant acceptance of the Nobel Prize for Literature.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Teri Hayden, an agent who guided the careers of such notable Irish actors as Gabriel Byrne, Ruth Negga, Brendan Gleeson and his ...

The transition from page to stage feels undermotivated, incomplete. The lively language shifts easily enough from prose to monologue, and Byrne - with his wide, serious face, his bright, worried eyes, ...

Gabriel Byrne is to take the lead role in forthcoming Channel 4 drama Coup. The conspiracy thriller - based on former Labour MP Chris Mullin's novel A Very British Coup - will see Byrne play reluctant ...