Marina Carr

‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’

Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown

Year as European Capital of Culture had been due to start with fire spectacle

She first played Shakespeare’s prince in Dublin. Now she’s reprising the role in New York

Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work

Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018

Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate

Whether it’s looking back or casting forward, this year’s event is rooted firmly in the now

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes

Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards

Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours

The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead

Irish writers have poured scorn on a Guardian listing of books that define Ireland

We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged

Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare

In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen

In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Author of ‘The Mai’ becomes second Irish writer in two years to be lauded by Yale

The collective works in our series show how molten and defiant Irish artworks can be

The Co Offaly playwright unleashes the great forces of sex and death, doom and rage – in language whose words ooze into each other until the distinctions between them blur

Almost 3,000 entries received from nearly 250 schools in pursuit of prestigious honours

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape

Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

From her irreverent early work to ‘volunteering her breasts’ for DruidShakespeare and on to her fresh take on O’Casey’s Juno, Crotty has never been one for convention

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage and Brian Friel all know that, whether they escape us, prove false or exert a destructive hold, memories always keep us in their grip

There’s a terrifying rage in her play ‘By the Bog of Cats’, which is reopening at the Abbey Theatre – and it’s an anger as old as the Greeks

Marina Carr’s bitter stretch of the Irish midlands is a sunken place full of ghosts and vengeance – will anyone make it out alive?

The actor continues her performances of notoriously tricky Irish prose works with Beckett’s Lessness, which comprises 60 sentences apparently chosen at random

Marina Carr’s new translation puts Rigoletto in the ring: can the formidable back room team whip it into shape for a knockout?