‘I think the Abbey knew I might do something a little bit queer with this Quare Fellow’
Tom Creed’s new production of Brendan Behan’s play – the first at the theatre for almost 40 years – features a cast of all female and nonbinary actors
Gina Moxley
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Twelve artists elected to Aosdána
Association honours new members in artforms such as writing, drama, dance and film
Pasolini’s Salò Redubbed review: Aims for greatness but falls significantly short
Dublin Theatre Festival: Despite the talented ensemble, neat staging and challenging concept, this production appears unconsidered
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’
Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland
Fear and apathy at the end of the world
Dance cast moved to Arctic cabin to experience heightened sense of isolation
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
The Patient Gloria review: Revisiting therapy as an exorcising scream
Dublin Theatre Festival: Gina Moxley restages Gloria Szymanski’s 1965 interviews with three therapists
Theatre of the week: Misogynistic therapy, and a neglected Sean O’Casey play
Two new productions at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival re-examine old art works
Who is Dublin for? Who do we want to share it with?
Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White on Arts Council rows and Ireland’s cultural deficits
Women don’t write national plays? ‘Well they can, and they do’
In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
From the Burren to Belfast: Sean Lynch removes our heritage from its neat packaging
The artist asks probing questions about everything from the Burren interpretive centre to the Belfast Titanic Experience
Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’
Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything
Bodily autonomy and inequality: women dance around the Proclamation
In Embodied, six provocative dances offer an unflinching exploration of the lot of women in Ireland past and present
Visual art round-up: Sean Lynch brings Venice to Limerick
Lynch’s Venice Biennale exhibition, now on tour, is quite an achievement
Irish culture in Paris: ‘I’m not a diplomat. My take is personal’
In 2013 Nora Hickey M’Sichili got her dream job of running the Centre Culturel Irlandais in the French capital. Have recent events changed the tone?
Art versus War: an Irish writer in Paris takes heart from a city of culture
Evelyn Conlon: ‘Art allows us – dares us – to let the imagination take the reins, wander to the edge of time or wherever suggests an answer ... to lift us out of the political maelstrom’
'What’s your guiltiest food pleasure?': It’s question time on The Women’s Podcast
This week’s question is in preperation for a special food episode next week
Abbey Theatre urged to play role in seeking equality in arts
Waking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artists
When Africa came to the Arsenale, and the Irish Biennale adventure
Venice’s first African-born curator, Okwui Enwezor, is on a mission to clean up the spiritual home of the art world and remind us of its social and political responsibilities
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Shakespeare may have been on magic mushrooms’
The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare isn’t getting any younger, and here his Midsummer action finds itself wandering the halls of a nursing home
Review: The Seagull and Other Birds
Pan Pan Theatre makes Chekhov’s play the centrepiece of its crammed and elusive aviary. Are they able to wing it?
Fringe review: How to Keep an Alien
When Sonya Kelly fell for an Aussie stage manager, the immigration bureau required documentary evidence. Wry, tender and imaginative, here is a stirring dossier of an accelerated romance
Paying more than lip service
We may never be able to interpret an unfathomable tragedy, but Lippy has extraordinary things to say about it
Lippy lads: A meditation on meaninglessness
If a suicide pact in Leixlip was a pointless tragedy, how can an experimental theatre maker and a traditional playwright make sense of it?
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