Gate Theatre

Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement

Theatre: The excellently paired Zara Devlin and Naoise Dunbar star in the Gate production of Abi Morgan’s absorbing play

Abi Morgan’s enduring play, which is opening at Dublin's Gate Theatre, tracks the ebb and flow of a long marriage

Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy

Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production

Put off London, the actor went instead to the US, where she spent 50 years as one of Ireland’s most prominent screen presences

As Shakespeare’s king, Conleth Hill is at his best when the storm is up and the brain befuddled. But this staging is short on big ideas

The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director

The `Shakespearean' HBO fantasy brought the Northern actor to a wider audience, and he's not complaining

February 15th-21st, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Legacy and history weave through this singular performance, which resonates long after it ends

Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies

From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be

Jack and the Beanstalk, Mary Poppins and an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment are among the highlights

Mary Norton’s story will entertain children while adults can convince themselves of its literary status

Charles Way’s adaptation of Mary Norton’s stories create atmosphere of family love, adventure and discovery

Durcan’s poems are risk-taking explorations of where tragedy and comedy meet in contemporary Ireland. A selection of his finest work is gathered in a book

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster

Theatre: Caroline Byrne’s production, featuring Zara Devlin, Peter Gowen and Ruth McGill, makes both dream and reverie of Brian Friel’s indestructible play

Rehearsals are underway for a new production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Gate this summer, and a new book about the playwright was published this week

Theatre: Róisín McBrinn has created a magnificent Irish production of Annie Baker’s sublime play

After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation

Play breaks little ground theatrically, but few will emerge unmoved or uninterested

The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital

Sara Baume’s publisher chances its arm; prospects for Healy-Raes: The Next Generation; A mystery for a crime writer

The Dublin theatre teams up with Sydney Theatre Company to celebrate the underperformed Austrian great Thomas Bernhard

The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in both her work and personal life

Stephen Rea is about to join an illustrious line-up that includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Patrick Magee

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

Dublin riots: Life in the city centre is partially returning to normal but there are fears that there could be more trouble

Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children

New community engagement programme to make the theatre ‘a more civic, open and democratic space’

Roddy Doyle’s new version of Peter Pan postponed because of ‘intricate and technical nature’ of show, says Dublin theatre

The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland

Turnover at the theatre reached €2.33 million last year, up from €583,853 in 2021

Occupied formerly by Bank of Ireland, numbers 1-2 and 5 Cavendish Row refurbished with high standard of fit-out

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters

The Irish actor was capable of threat and pathos, with the ability to boom and to shrink into his large frame

Gate and Abbey theatres describe the Dublin-born actor as ‘legendary’ and ‘a giant of stage and screen’