Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill: ‘I was resistant for a long time. I’m not into wizards’
The `Shakespearean' HBO fantasy brought the Northern actor to a wider audience, and he's not complaining
Men’s Business review: Avant-garde date night pregnant with commitment issues
Theatre: Rex Ryan and Lauren Farrell star in Glass Mask’s world premiere of Simon Stephens’s new play
Aurora: A Modern Myth review – An ecoaware play with a surprising amount of sass
Prime Cut’s production of Dominic Montague’s play doesn’t always work, but it’s definitely not dull
The Ferryman at the Gaiety review: This British play about the Troubles sounds as if it was written using Wikipedia
Jez Butterworth seems intent on showing all his research with a list of Irish counties and reference to banshees
Accents review: The late Eoin French’s remarkable music accompanies Emmet Kirwan’s fatherhood search
The musician’s death adds a layer of grief to this autobiographical drama, in which Kirwan is an expectant father exploring what it means to be a parent
As more hotels and office blocks rise up, where are Dublin’s promised cultural spaces?
The capital has entrusted commercial ventures with a chunk of its cultural future but some of the earmarked facilities are sitting empty
2025 on stage: 21 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
A Streetcar Named Desire review: Hot and bothered in New Orleans
Theatre: Cathal Cleary’s lucid production features a pleasingly young cast, including an impressively fluid Eavan Gaffney as Blanche DuBois
It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own: A swooning comedy for Dublin after the riots
Theatre: Ericka Roe is note perfect in Thommas Kane Byrne’s fabulous version of Dublin’s inner city
Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Mother Courage and Her Children review: A darkly comic road trip through a Europe at war
Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play
The Tragedy of Richard III: Editing Shakespeare’s crude portrait of the disabled royal
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Oisín Kearney and Michael Patrick’s inventive staging exposes some of the play’s bile
Safe House: Enda Walsh’s new work is an oppressively desolate song cycle
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Darkmatter: A freaky, oozy horror dance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The Dutch choreographer Cherish Menzo’s eventful piece has a frightening otherworldliness