Dolores review: Short and potent story of a young woman in trouble
Lauren Aimee Curtis’s original take on teenage pregnancy makes for a vibrant debut novel
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
Faded Southern belles and pumped-up kicks: this week’s theatre highlights
The revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of wit
The Lyric Theatre at 50: a cultural bridge in a divided city
It opened its doors on the cusp of the Troubles, but Belfast’s Lyric has survived
Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
Druid Theatre defends criticism of all-male 2017 programme
Lack of female playwrights described as ‘disappointment’ after Waking the Feminists
Shakespeare and me: Irish writers on the Bard's best bits
Some admirers celebrate the playwright’s work on the 400th anniversary of his death
Beyond the Abbey: the trouble for women in theatre
The National Theatre’s maddeningly male 1916 centenary season highlights the difficulties that face women who work in Irish theatre
Life after the Troubles in Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts | Theatre Review
What happens to the foot soldiers in the half-life of the peace process?
Lally the Scut review: grotesque caricatures abound in an insular Border community
In spite of a fast-moving narrative, the action sometimes feels laboured
‘The arts are an easy target’: Northern Ireland’s budget blues
All funding has been cut to six organisations, including leading independent publishers and theatre companies. Job losses are a certainty and the long-term impact on the sector could be disastrous
NI Arts Council funds Lough Derg: the musical and Hurricane Higgins: the novel
Colin Bateman and Eoin McNamee among four artists to receive £15,000 awards
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