Freefalling: A wild, extraordinary story that you couldn’t make up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
Lynne Parker
Peter Hanly was one of Ireland’s most recognisable actors. Then he vanished
More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened - and from a startling place
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Hilary Fannin: ‘You’re faced with something so mad – maybe you’re going to die’
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
Rough Magic at 40: ‘We started out as left-wing young idealists. That need to react to the world is very strong’
The theatre company, now more than 100 productions into its creative life, still holds firm to the artistic outlook it adopted back in 1984
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
Kilkenny festival to present mixture of virtual and live events
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
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
Hecuba review: Perspective and psychology brought to an ancient tale
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate
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
Cleft review: An intriguing look at fear, bravery and trauma
Fergal McElherron explores family histories, and life on the margins in his new play
The week’s best theatre: Two new plays going by their gut
These Stupid Things at Smock Alley Theatre and Cleft at O’Donoghue Theatre are his week’s highlights
Fair City actor lived his life ‘to the full’, funeral Mass told
Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach
Festival unveils programme for this year’s festival, which runs from August 8th to 18th
Director’s Choice: Theatre directors pick the soundtracks of their lives
Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces
After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland
The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions
Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety
Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Shakespeare’s summer sensation: This week’s theatre highlights
Rough Magic’s high-voltage staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream addresses climate change, while Jim Cartwright’s ‘Two’ is more than the sum of its parts
It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny Castle
Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution
Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
Theatre directors condemn sexual harassment and abuse of power
Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’
Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the world
There’s no other play quite like Rough Magic’s Melt right now
Which Irish theatre companies have the worst record regarding women?
New research commissioned by Waking The Feminists shows theatre companies with biggest state subsidy have worst gender record
Northern Star review: Northern Star review: A riff on nationalism with profound resonances
Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style
Parker on Parker: ‘Stewart’s work has been horrendously ignored’
Productions of Stewart Parker plays have been among the biggest successes of his niece Lynne Parker’s career. For her latest tilt at Northern Star, she decided to ‘Brecht it a bit’
DTF review | The Train: A theatrical manifesto, exuberantly played for laughs
This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming
The 'contraceptive train’ spawns a musical
The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage
Famished Castle: ‘What happens lost love? Where does it go?’
Hilary Fannin’s play takes in a decade of loves won and lost and our economic boom and bust
Review: Famished Castle
Are all the characters in Hilary Fannin’s new play toxically self-involved or has our national plummet from prosperity left everybody isolated?
Hilary Fannin: I was top of the class in drinking down the nuns’ wild tales
Man, I loved a bit of fervour. Hand on heart, I’d like to acknowledge the energy that the nuns put into the telling of the great, mad story of their exotic world
Writer, arts champion and captivating queen of Irish advertising
Catherine Sheerin-Donnelly: April 29th, 1948 - October 8th, 2014
Baboró and beyond: Irish kids’ theatre comes of age
It’s not unusual to find our best theatrical talent working in children’s theatre, and given the calibre of the work there’s little wonder why
Review: The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny
The singers give it all their worth in this production; spreading it throughout the venue proves attractive and frustrating
Overnight success: a theatre becomes the city of Mahagonny in 12 hours
Witnessing the highly pressurised construction of the immersive city of Mahagonny for six performances of Brecht’s opera is impressive – it is amazing what you can achieve without planning permission
The Cunning Little Vixen
A hugely stimulating interpretation of Janacek’s opera, prodigiously imagined by an army of young creative minds
What’s on around Ireland this weekend
A guide to events from the Heineken Cup rugby match to the Shannonside Winter Music Festival
Curtain call for Cork, a city proud of its operatic leanings
Cork had the first production of 2014, and features in two successful Arts Council funding applications
The rise and rise of Mahagonny: Sky brings Irish opera to the box
Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company have been awarded €230,000 from Sky Arts to stage a Marxist opera. Are Brecht and Weill camera-ready, and what’s in it for Sky?
Rough Magic and OTC win €230,000 Sky Arts award
Theatre companies to stage a Brecht and Weill play in large-scale immersive production
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