The Whiteheaded Boy review: Heart of Abbey’s summer show lies in an unexpected place
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play
Clare Barrett
Actor
‘I came to Ireland all guns blazing ... I didn’t know that was the least cool thing’
For The Whiteheaded Boy, at the Abbey, theatre director Ryan is drawing on the anarchic spirit of her Chicago past
Medicine: Domhnall Gleeson is a force to be reckoned with. This performance cuts you to the bone
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
Galway International Arts Festival: Like a phoenix from the flames
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
Much Ado about Nothing review: Booze, subversion and anxiety
Rough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holiday
The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhem
Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X
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
UK braves US ire by pressing ahead with tax on tech companies
Move comes hours after Washington threatened sanctions against France for similar levy
Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationship
Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre
Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
‘The Good Father’ and ‘Minding Frankie’: this week’s best theatre
An unlikely couple face up to parenthood, and Maeve Binchy’s evergreen story
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
Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Family NoticesOpens in new window
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices