Eileen Walsh

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting

Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play

David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

Did you sleep with more than two women during our break-up, she asks. ‘In a good week, yeah,” he replies

Tipperary woman Kerry Condon's first lead role, in Sharon Horgan’s Women on the Verge, brought new pressures

Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel

Stephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returns

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn

Eileen Walsh given less than a fortnight to quit the house she has lived in for 35 years

Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything

The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?

Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre

It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings

Memory is unreliable, but the theatre relies on that

MIDNIGHT: the streets of Cork are alive with the sound of urination, garda sirens, expectoration and the aggressive mating calf…