Tommy Tiernan to star in new Kevin Barry play as part of Abbey programme
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
The Tony and Olivier winner feels a huge affinity with Rex Ryan’s ‘fearless’ Dublin company Glass Mask, which is premiering his play Men’s Business
Cillian Murphy wins award for best actor for second year in a row while Saoirse Ronan picks up two gongs
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
After decades of denial and obfuscation, campaigners agree progress on Magdalene laundry is happening as new Cillian Murphy film absorbs audiences
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: The acting is excellent, but this early play has moments that now strike a crude, adolescent note
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: Zara Devlin provides the voice for a ballroom attendant in Enda Walsh’s latest Rooms installation
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
Theatre: Barbara and Jane Brennan star as the sisters who re-enact scenes from a night 40 years ago in Emma Jordan’s outstanding Dublin production
Barbara and Jane Brennan have come together to star in a new production of Enda Walsh’s The New Electric Ballroom
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
I have met inspiring Arab women through my work says Padraig Downey, an Irish theatre maker in Dubai
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
‘I didn’t see myself as a personality. I see myself as an actor. I think those are two distinct jobs’
TV: The Gleesons are a lively double-act, and the scatological jokes arrive at an impressive clip
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
In all great plays, a calamity can be adapted to any circumstance – pandemic, for example
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
The Abbey’s Dear Ireland shows how artists can bring a valuable insight to current events
Theatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this month
Dear Ireland: 50 writers invited to create 50 one-actor pieces that reflect Covid-19 crisis
Lankum singer on the tear-jerking properties of Olivia Colman, and the podcasts of Jon Ronson.
Brenock O’Connor and Zara Devlin star in the new stage version of the hit Irish film
The cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevance
Is the novelist and screenwriter turned playwright fated to follow in his family’s footsteps?
Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity
The Peaky Blinders star talks PTSD, #MeToo, 007, and what Brexit means for Ireland
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?
The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise
Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Review: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the cold
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June
Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
The Grief Is the Thing with Feathers writer on following up his acclaimed debut novel
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices