Druid theatre company

Appreciation: Ronnie O’Gorman

Founder of the Galway Advertiser has left a lasting legacy

Mon Sept 23 2024 - 01:00

‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House

Sat Sept 21 2024 - 05:30

The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind

Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad

Thu Sept 19 2024 - 10:52

Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan

Wed Jul 17 2024 - 08:54

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival

Mon Jul 15 2024 - 11:19

Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say

Sun Jul 07 2024 - 05:30

Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present

Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays

Sat Dec 16 2023 - 05:15

Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey

Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July

Mon Oct 09 2023 - 15:55

Fintan O’Toole: Ireland can be proud of itself only if it can confront its shameful deeds

Druid’s magnificent new staging of the O’Casey trilogy should be a source of national pride

Sat Aug 05 2023 - 06:00

DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions

Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles

Sun Jul 23 2023 - 11:03

Fintan O’Toole: RTÉ bureaucrats fantasised they could turn themselves into Broadway impresarios

The broadcaster piddled away €2.2m on the Toy Show vanity project, while showing an increasingly obvious disdain for its cultural remit

Tue Jul 11 2023 - 06:21

Galway International Arts Festival: 15 events you don’t want to miss

Including DruidO’Casey, The Saw Doctors, Bedbound and more, this year’s festival programme has heft and depth

Mon Jul 10 2023 - 06:30

Druid & O’Casey: ‘The plays deal with the tenements, poverty... problems we are still deep dealing with’

Garry Hynes’s latest project involves a cast of 18 actors for the Dublin trilogy: Shadow of a Gunman, Juno and the Paycock and The Plough and the Stars by Seán O’Casey

Sat Jul 01 2023 - 05:00

Clare Monnelly: ‘Women have had a terrible time in this country for a really long time’

When the actor started writing and creating her own work, she found a new level of fulfilment

Sat Jun 24 2023 - 05:00

‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up

Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse

Tue May 16 2023 - 10:00

Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

Fri Jul 19 2019 - 14:00

Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week

Druid Theatre Company stages Brian Watkins’s new play Epiphany, a serious comedy with Joycean inspiration, Cornwall’s Kneehigh turn The Beggars Opera on its head

Sat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00

Moving the furniture around: This week’s theatre highlights

Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call

Sat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00

Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III

For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years

Sat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 13:45

Martin McDonagh: A history of violence

After 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks back

Sat Sept 17 2016 - 03:00

Review of ‘Helen and I’: A gnarled family tree

McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot

Thu Sept 15 2016 - 06:00

Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Thu Jul 14 2016 - 17:30

Druid Theatre announces rural tour of ‘Waiting for Godot’

Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text

Tue Jul 12 2016 - 18:04