Citysong review: An Irish family’s entrancing journey across generations
Dylan Coburn Gray’s play for voices builds up a huge picture through small details
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
A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety
Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival
It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny Castle
Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare
Theatre highlights of the week
Tough choices: audiences get to elect their own prince in Pan Pan’s brilliant alternative take on ‘Hamlet’ at the Abbey; while Veronica Dyas, Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky share a Mother in Dyas’s new production ‘My Son My Son’
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
The best theatre shows this week
From the giddy highs to the worrying lows, or a rooftop to a grave, this week's theatre highlights span the course of a lifetime.
Amy Conroy awarded the Phelim Donlon playwright’s bursary and residency
Playwright will use support to develop new play about ‘gaslighting’ and memory
The pick of this week’s theatre
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
All the world’s a stage for playwright bursary
There’s still time to apply for the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary. Last year’s recipient Dylan Coburn Gray has won the Verity Bargate Award in the UK
Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen
Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival
The Ark: Theatrical treats, and where to find them
The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years
Dublin Fringe reviews: from teenage sex to undertaker humour
The playground is a battleground in Animalia, while Looking Deadly pits a pair of small-town rival undertakers against each other
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .
After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Peter Crawley’s 2015: Gender and history get a stunning makeover
From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives
Abbey Theatre urged to play role in seeking equality in arts
Waking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artists
Culture Shock: The trouble with memories
Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage and Brian Friel all know that, whether they escape us, prove false or exert a destructive hold, memories always keep us in their grip
Luck Just Kissed You Hello goes beyond gender politics | GIAF review
Amy Conroy’s new play is a mysterious family drama about a hard-won reconciliation and the making of a man
Amy Conroy: ‘I didn’t know how to be the girl I was supposed to be’
Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about families
Galway International Arts Festival opens for public
This year’s series brings theatre, music and an eye-catching hot air balloon to the city
Select: fall in love with some Galway grub
Galway International Arts Festival rolls into the City of the Tribes this weekend, and in among the visual arts, theatre and music there's some great food to be found
Galway International Arts Festival programme revealed
Biggest talking point likely to be Patricia Piccinini’s giant Sky Whale, which created quite a stir when it appeared in Melbourne in 2013
‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum
Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway
Children’s show review: Far Away From Me
This show for ages six and up broaches some important issues around identity and inclusion, but dramatically it feels embryonic
Peter Crawley’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
10 days of the Tiger Dublin Fringe
From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you
Learning the hard way
A few years ago Amy Conroy was in a rut. Now she has set up the HotForTheatre company, written three plays – including Break, at Dublin Fringe Festival – and toured the world. Could we all benefit from some creative thinking?
A Break from the staff room and the schoolyard
In the aftermath of a tragedy a school turns to music to find rhyme and reason
How Róise Goan grew the Fringe
Five years on from her ‘mad’ appointment – ‘they hired a 27-year-old amateur’ – Róise Goan, outgoing director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, leaves it in its most mature state yet
Anniversary of 1913 a key part of Dublin Fringe
Dublin Fringe Festival director Róise Goan to hand over role to Canadian at event’s end
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