Last letters of executed republican released to mark centenary
‘I shouldn’t have written to you at all only it is the eve of our execution’ - Barney Ryan (20)
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Ruth Negga: ‘I didn’t experience explicit racism growing up. Maybe some exoticism’
The Limerick actor is determined to play her part in making sure diverse voices are represented
Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’
Artists and arts workers have been left in desperate straits by the sudden shutdown
The Fall of the Second Republic review: A fitting portrayal of political disarray
Conspiracy thriller set in counterfactual 1970s Ireland plays out as screwball comedy
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
The Misfits review: An intimate character study in a stripped-back Wild West
Dublin Theatre Festival: Annie Ryan has sensitively adapted Arthur Miller’s drama
The Misfits: Marilyn Monroe’s swansong gets a stage reboot
Corn Exchange is tackling Arthur Miller’s play for Dublin Theatre Festival. Ghosts of John Huston’s troubled 1961 movie loom large
Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen
Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour
Ollie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’
Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
The Seagull review: Chekhov feels at home in Ireland
In Corn Exchange’s witty and absorbing new version, set in contemporary Ireland, the feathers fly again
‘The voices in our own heads’ – 20 years of Corn Exchange
For its anniversary production, director Annie Ryan settled on a stark Ingmar Bergman drama that does nothing to change the impression of the company as being hard to pin down
Through a Glass Darkly review: Bergman’s tale in an unspecific Ireland
Trapped in a holiday created by Ingmar Bergman that’s given ghostly life on stage, can Beth Cooke’s Karin escape?
Review | Chekhov’s First Play: ‘Platonov is the black hole at the heart of this brilliant endeavour’
Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention
10 things we learned from this year’s Edinburgh extravaganza
As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky
Was the demise of the Celtic Tiger the saviour of Irish theatre?
New anthology explores how playwrights responded to a country - and a theatre - in crisis
Aoife Duffin: ‘There was a lot of curiosity about whether I was a normal person’
When she was approached for the only role in the distressing stage adaptation of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, the actor had refused, saying she couldn’t do ‘another play about rape’ after a string of draining parts. What changed her mind?
Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
To adapt Eimear McBride’s unconventional book can’t have been easy, but they’ve pulled it off
The right direction: unravelling the roles in the theatre awards
When we congratulate directors on a job well done, do we know what we’re congratulating them for?
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