It doesn’t matter how long a play is: sometimes 75 minutes can feel like 3 hours if the play is bad, while a three-hour play may first elicit an inner groan, then flow pleasurably by if the writing and performances are in well-oiled tandem.

Kenneth Lonergan’s Hold on to Me Darling (Lucille Lortel Theatre, to Dec. 22) belongs, mostly, to the latter category: it is long, and it feels long, but that’s OK; not gold-standard wow, but far more than pleasant. This is down to Lonergan’s engaging writing and a collection of differently distinctive, carefully drawn performances, led by Adam Driver as a famous country star called Strings (real name Clarence), wondering if he could/should give up all the trappings of fame for a simpler life after his mother’s death.

It is an off-Broadway treat to see Driver, most recently seen on the big screen as the star of Francis Ford Coppola’s polarizing epic Megalopolis, here bestriding—he is so tall, he is really bestriding—the compact Lucille Lortel stage. Theater fans last saw him on Broadway in Burn This, for which he was nominated for the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play. He is renowned for playing powder-keg personas. With characters like Adam in Girls, Charlie in Marriage Story, and Pale in Burn This, the question, the bubbling menace, was when will Adam Driver go off? Those characters memorably combusted—thrashing, shouting, snarling and occupying spaces that could barely contain them—and Driver made it so that you recoiled from their crackling fury.

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The Kylo Ren of the 'Star Wars' movie franchise is expected to portray the main character in 'The Yankee Comandante', a true-story film about the fall of Cuban Dictator Fulgencio Batista.

SBS On Demand is streaming more than 10 hours of his features. Our isolated film critic took the bait and watched them all

Many terrible things are discussed in the maelstrom of mayhem and misery I call my inbox – terrible, terrible things, such as requests involving me needing to go somewhere, or speak to someone or do something.

But last Thursday afternoon a lovely email broke through like a ray of sunshine piercing grey clouds on a stormy day. It was an email from a publicist at SBS. The subject line read: “Binge 627 minutes of ADAM DRIVER for free.”

Driver is nominated for Best Leading Actor in a Play. He stars alongside Keri Russell in Burn This, the sexy drama about two strangers who are brought together over a mysterious death.

Adam Driver doesn't like to watch or listen to his performances, and he walked out of an interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross earlier this month after she tried to play him a clip from Marriage Story.

Adam Driver, was recognized with an Outstanding Performer of the Year award at the Santa Barbara International Film Festival on Friday.

The 47-year-old actor got visibly tearful on Jimmy Kimmel Live as he thanked his The Last Duel co-star for making him a 'hero' with his eight-year-old son Samuel by sending gifts.

Both previews feature the family-of-three living through happy and hard times

In the two minute preview, the 34-year-old Avengers star got emotional as she portrayed the breakdown of her relationship with her husband, played by Adam Driver.

After leaving viewers on the brink of tears following its recent Netflix release, Marriage Story has stolen the show with six Golden Globe nominations.

The two star with Scarlett Johansson in the Noah Baumbach dramedy about a couple going through a divorce.

Scarlett Johansson was set to receive another honor for her work in Marriage Story, alongside co-star Adam Driver, but became 'violently ill' before the 2019 Santa Barbara International Film Festival.

Dern and Driver were joined by their Marriage Story director Noam Baumbach who also wrote the screenplay for the movie about a couple going through a divorce.

Adam Driver was also in hot contention for best dressed man as he wowed fans on the red carpet of the British Academy Film Awards in London.