Marty Rea

Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting

Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play

David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories

This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in

‘Creative documentary’ tells of Nazi rocket scientist who played key role in 1969 event

Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production

Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye

This week in the theatre

The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production

Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door

If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation

Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members

The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text

The staging of this Abbey production is adventurous, but the production as a whole errs on the side of the traditional

‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director

Mark O’Rowe’s stark production treats the the play almost as a documentary and cleverly casts against type

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

From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives

As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service

The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed

Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong

Toby Frow’s production of Pinter’s 1960 play sticks too scrupulously to the text

David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick

A prequel to his masterful Bailegangaire, Brigit fleshes out a complex family history, but Tom Murphy’s new play is a more vivid portrait of the artist

Rehearsals for two Murphy plays begin in Galway

The characters in playwright Brian Martin’s controversial debut play are each experiencing a crisis in faith. But is it believable?

Brian Martin’s first play is about a paedophile priest struggling to suppress his desires. It’s a bit like learning to open up a can of worms with a chainsaw

The Gate’s new production of Wilde’s political play struggles to marry its competing forces

Director Garry Hynes and her superb cast careful calibrate the tone of Boucicault’s melodrama

An exploration of the perceived morality of extreme positions pits religious idealism against pragmatic realism within a single family unit