Theatre: This take on La Locandiera, set mainly in a Dublin Italian restaurant, emphasises the universality of its central themes of misogyny and intimate violence
A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together
The Irish actor stars alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
What kind of 'experience' do we expect our students of English literature to have if not reading Shakespeare?
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
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
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Marina Carr’s play features Maeve Fitzgerald as married mother Deb, who has fallen madly in love with another man
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Exploring women’s literature and the formation of identity leads us from AS Byatt and Anne Dunlop to Madonna and Judith Butler
Theatre: Aisling O’Sullivan, Marie Mullen, Anna Healy, Nick Dunning, Zara Devlin and Patrick Martins star in a bravura production that shouldn’t work but mostly does
Turning a script into a finished show is hugely complex. We spend a day at the National Theatre to see Audrey or Sorrow come together
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
From works such as By the Bog of Cats to the playwright’s most recent work, Girl on an Altar, familiar intimate questions are played out on an epic scale
Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue
Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan after 25 years
I have met inspiring Arab women through my work says Padraig Downey, an Irish theatre maker in Dubai
Sharp drop in 2020 revenues followed theatre postponing or cancelling 23 productions
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
‘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
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards
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
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
