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Stars take part in reading of Sam Shepard’s play Ages of the Moon for Irish national theatre’s Love at First Sight season
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It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Abbey Theatre box office revenues decline 82% due to Covid-19
Sharp drop in 2020 revenues followed theatre postponing or cancelling 23 productions
Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
The concerts and events still taking place across Ireland this summer
Government restrictions have limited capacity but some festivals are still on
O’Casey In The Estate spins a powerfully human story
RTÉ follows a group of striving actors from Dublin’s East Wall, avoiding the usual luvviedom
What is it that opera traditionalists want exactly?
It has become clear over the years that whatever it is they like, they call it traditional
The best classical music and opera to see this week
An opera on Ireland’s direct provision system and New Ross Piano Festival
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
Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove
The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around
The past is always present: This week’s theatre highlights
Dylan Coburn Gray’s Citysong, and Ann Blake’s Morning After the Life Before
Director’s Choice: Theatre directors pick the soundtracks of their lives
Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
ConTempo con brio: This week’s classical highlights
RTÉ ConTempo Quartet play in Sligo and Galway. Plus: ‘Banished’ in Kilmainham Gaol
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
The legacies of the Donegal boatbuilders find a new port
‘Foyle Punt’ review: Allow The Local Group to introduce you to a boat, the Foyle Punt, everything it stands for and what it may become
Three theatre shows to catch in Ireland this week
Druid premieres two original works while a new company take their maiden voyage with Foyle’s Punt
‘On Raftery’s Hill’ review: a striking and pummelling production
Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
From Kafka to Walsh: This week’s theatre highlights
Imaginative new spins on old concerns take the stages this week
Your guide to going out – and staying in – this weekend
St Vincent plays Olympia while Josephine K and the Algorithms comes to Abbey Theatre
Josephine K and the Algorithms: Kafka gets a modern update
In Stacey Gregg’s new play, the forces that push us around are creatures of our own creation
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet you
To hell with humans; we’re on the terminators’ side, in NYT’s reboot of Karel Capek’s 1921 play
This week at the theatre
This week at the theatre, you find robotic revolutions, a threatened Eden and other unlikely relationships.
The best theatre shows to catch this week
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
Luck Just Kissed You Hello goes beyond gender politics | GIAF review
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