Movie Reviews & Stories In 2008, playwright-turned-filmmaker Martin McDonagh pulled off a nifty directorial trick: He made a crime comedy with soul. There aren’t too many of those around—not in the post-Pulp...   More

Performance Martin McDonagh is a prop comedian. Sure, the Irish playwright knows how to put an obscenity to good use, writes excellent punch lines and is a master of the twist ending.    More

News Martin McDonagh, the writer of bloody, foulmouthed, hilariously nihilist plays so popular that Portland theaters have produced five of his six plays in the last nine years, has announced that his next work will be titled A Behanding in Spokane. The press release, as quoted on New York magazine's Vulture blog, reads, "Take a man searching for his missing hand, two con artists out to make a few hundred ...   More