Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
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Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Hidden Assets: An unlikely mishmash of suicide bombers, Irish gangsters and Angeline Ball
TV review: The Irish-Belgian-Canadian drama is Irish stew with moules-frites and maple syrup
Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath
Theatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives forever
Eighteen Irish panto productions for all the family to watch this season
Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format
‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint
Emma Mackey: ‘No, not all French people want to have sex all the time’
The Sex Education actor talks about her Irish roots and her Anglo-French upbringing
Wayne Jordan: ‘I didn’t feel like an artist anymore, but an interior designer’
The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre
Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
Jonathan Swift’s satire works as key to modern-day ills
Conall Morrison’s new play blends 18th-century wit’s biography with his bibliography
‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationship
Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre
Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism
Shoplifters of the world unite: Charlie’s a Clepto is this week’s theatre highlight
In Clare Monnelly’s debut play, a misspelling spins her protagonist into a life of petty crime, but it’s the play’s subtle borrowings and light references that really steal the show
Charlie’s a Clepto review: Nimble plotting, nimble performance
Clare Monnelly pivots through a range of characters in this revival of her artful debut
St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend
From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab
Past tension: the eternal battle between old and new music
There was nothing wrong with the New Music Dublin Festival – just its name
Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in Ireland
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien
‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories
Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales
This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III
For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin
Kevin Barry: On My Culture Radar
The award-winning author and playwright on Tommy Tiernan, Austin Texas, and why we need podcasts
Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for
Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
‘Maze’ review: more like the ‘Great Escape’ than we had any right to expect
The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn
The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera
A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
The best classical performances to see this week
Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend
Galway arts festival marks 40th opening, while Fringe celebrates sixth year
Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events
Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?
Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years
Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous
Druid Theatre announces rural tour of ‘Waiting for Godot’
Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text
Review: DruidShakespeare
Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong
A madcap drama that needs the cold eye of a director and some further investment
There is a good show in Emerald Germs and some marvellous performances. But can it shake off its lethargy?
The Colleen Bawn
Director Garry Hynes and her superb cast careful calibrate the tone of Boucicault’s melodrama
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