Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
Frank McGuinness
Calling extremely early birds: Beckett tickets go on sale 11 years before performances
In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s vision
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
Bosco Hogan: ‘On the stage I feel most alive’
The actor, who is receiving a Special Tribute Award at the Irish Times Theatre Awards, on his early days at Radio Éireann and a ghostly encounter with WB Yeats
Tartuffe: An effervescent production in which great actors have a brilliant time
Theatre: It is better to submit to the pleasure of this sumptuous production than to ask questions about its deeper meaning
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
Ann Ingle: ‘People don’t think about older people as exciting’
Author talks about her memoir, Openhearted, and defying expectations as she gets older
It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience
Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?
Marianne Faithfull with Warren Ellis: She Walks in Beauty – A love affair with the Romantic poets
The English singer fulfils a long-held desire to draw on the works of Byron, Keats, Shelley et al
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
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight
A Century of Doom – Frank McNally on how things fall apart, but not Yeats’s most quoted poem
An Irishman’s Diary
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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
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