Tonic: The utopia of 2021, revisited with the Amazing Calibri Triplet Family Band
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Fionn Foley and Rough Magic’s production is a collaboration of comedic and musical talent
All the world is a van: Shakespeare in a time of Covid
King Lear in a Van is a clever way of bringing theatre and drama to the masses
95 things to look forward to: Matches, movies, plays, pints, pals
By Aisling Bea, Mary McAleese, Richard Ford, Marian Keyes, Tolü Makay, Blindboy and more
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
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
The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of history
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Fair City actor lived his life ‘to the full’, funeral Mass told
Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight
‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern Ireland
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
No Joe as Philip Boucher-Hayes puts positive stamp on ‘Liveline’
Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old master
Mozart’s The Opera Director from Irish National Opera: the best classical music this week
The RTÉ Concert Orchestra’s current Essential Classics series ends with a popular selection of Schubert and Beethoven
Wexford Festival Opera: the opening weekend’s reviews
‘Medea’ misses the mark while ‘Risurrezione’ goes down a storm
Your guide to going out – and staying in – this weekend
St Vincent plays Olympia while Josephine K and the Algorithms comes to Abbey Theatre
Fiona Shaw to direct Medea at Wexford Festival Opera
This year the festival expands across 18 days, starting October 19th
Theatre of war: the plays putting the Rising rebels back on the streets
Two site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productions
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
The Kings of the Kilburn High Road review
This is a purgatorial experience of emigration, where nobody is ever at home
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
DTF review | The Train: A theatrical manifesto, exuberantly played for laughs
This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming
The 'contraceptive train’ spawns a musical
The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage
Heavyweights and new voices brand Dublin Theatre Festival
The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience
The Field review: John B Keane’s subversive streak made safe
This proud anniversary production of a play last staged just four years ago feels more familiar than heritage drama; more rote than the Mass
Radio: Hare-brained gags and musical diversity, together at last on ‘Marty in the Morning’
Marty Whelan is an odd fit on Lyric FM, but even his wacky style is a good deal more inspirational than daytime on 2FM
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