Abbey Theatre box office revenues decline 82% due to Covid-19
Sharp drop in 2020 revenues followed theatre postponing or cancelling 23 productions
Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivors
Theatre review: Powerful, earth-shifting testimonies are solemnly read as scripts
‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture
Anger grows as theatre sector asks why it’s not allowed to open
Reopening of cinemas but not theatres described as ‘inconsistent and illogical’
Abbey Theatre to collaborate with GAA on Bloody Sunday productions
14 different works will be staged on the eve of the centenary in November
Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Touring helps Abbey Theatre boost box office receipts by 28%
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
Theatre highlights: Unmanageable Sisters returns to the stage
Fionn Foley’s solo show Brendan Galileo for Europe onstage ahead of fringe outings
Theatre workers write to Minister again, frustrated by slow Abbey progress
‘We have no confidence that our concerns are a priority for the current management’
Abbey Theatre commits to reviewing pay rates for workers
Signatories of letter critical of theatre ‘delighted’ but highlight ‘outstanding issues’
Abbey directors to meet actors today in response to letter of protest
First meeting to address concerns about national theatre to be held without mediator
This week’s theatre: Country Girls hit the Abbey while Alice returns to Wonderland
Abbey Theatre stages O’Brien’s subversive classic as a much safer journey and Blue Raincoat re-re-imagines adventures in Wonderland.
The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentality
The Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabus
Abbey Theatre row: meeting hailed as ‘positive first step’
Talks between management and theatre workers follows scathing open letter
The Abbey: 15 things we learned this week about disgruntled theatre workers
Here’s what the theatre and creative talent will talk about when they meet tonight
Abbey Theatre says letter signatories will not be blacklisted
Abbey’s chairwoman tells Oireachtas committee the theatre will ‘address concerns’
Abbey leads the field in Irish Times Irish Theatre Award nominations
Controversial co-productions boost national theatre’s tally
View from the UK: What does it mean to be a national theatre?
It’s not just in Ireland that questions of how a national theatre should reflect a country’s identity are being asked
Abbey theatre: Why I did not sign the ‘letter of concern’
Opinion: Neil Murray and Graham McLaren have got a lot right, writes Declan Gorman
Abbey controversy: theatre to review lower pay on coproductions
Directors apologise to Fiach Mac Conghail for ‘distress’ caused by €1.4m deficit claim
Abbey Theatre rows back on claims of €1.4m deficit in 2017
National theatre addresses letter detailing ‘deep concern’ from theatre professionals
The Irish Times view on the Abbey Theatre: legitimate grievances
The plethora of revivals of successful shows may be good for the box office but is doing little for renewal of the creative repertoire
Q and A: What’s going on at the Abbey that has angered so many?
Over 300 actors and directors are dismayed by its new strategy. The Abbey has come out fighting
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
‘I tried to let myself back into my flat through a first-floor window’
In Conversation: Graham McLaren and Neil Murray of the Abbey Theatre
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Come From Away: a 9/11 side-story that offers hope for humanity
‘I was crying so hard I had snot bubbles and was laughing at the same time’
Two theatre shows to catch in Dublin this week
The Abbey brings the insurgent story of Jimmy Gralton back to the stage for another knees-up
‘Everyone had girls’ names in the seminary’
Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests
An actor and a gentleman, with a gift for comedy and living well
Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
Two theatre shows to see this week
Ulysses in the Abbey; Fred and Alice in the Viking Theatre, Clontarf
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
Fine, feathered friends and neighbours: The week’s best theatre
Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival
The Unmanageable Sisters review: A production that doesn’t quite stick
It’s hard to see what ground Deirdre Kinahan’s new Irish version of Michel Tremblay’s play can break
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
What Put the Blood: A troublesome Irish version of Racine’s play
If there really is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other, Andromaque and Hermione have found it
Theatre directors condemn sexual harassment and abuse of power
Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment
The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games
‘Jimmy’s Hall’ review: Movement presented as political dissent
Jimmy Gralton was infamously deported from his own country for giving his community a space for dancing and revolutionary ideas. There’s more room for the former than the latter in the Abbey’s handsome, musical and nostalgic telling of his tale
Abbey Theatre to stage premiere outside Dublin for the first time
Adaptation of Ken Loach film Jimmy’s Hall to be debuted in Leitrim where it is set
Abbey rejuvenates Peacock and Fiona Shaw comes to Wexford
A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre
Feminist pressure group holds theatre organisations to account
Waking the Feminists slate theatre organisations for below-par gender equality record
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