0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising stars
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Emer Dineen combines high-camp fantasy with a personal tale of family illness, grief and alienation
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In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Thisispopbaby’s magic sauce: ‘Take Irish traditional culture, add some mirror balls, throw some glitter on it’
The innovative theatre company are bringing back Wake, their exuberant, life-affirming explosion of a show, for St Patrick’s Festival 2024
Wake review: Thisispopbaby’s brilliant new show is like Riverdance for club queens
Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Jennifer Jennings, Phillip McMahon and Niall Sweeney find new life in old traditions
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme of in-person events
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
Can experimental theatre be sentimental?
Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
Review: I am Tonie Walsh. What is a club DJ if not a keeper of records?
Walsh chronicles several turbulent decades of progress and setbacks in his solo show
Theatre: Legendary ‘Godfather of Gay’ DJ Tonie Walsh takes to the stage
Theatre highlights: DJ turned activist Tonie Walsh introduces himself to the theatre; while Ken Rogan’s inspired debut play tells the oldest story in the freshest way
‘Seahorses live a radically feminist lifestyle. They have it sorted’
Christiane O'Mahony's new play Seahorse centres around an unlikely feminist icon
‘I’ve started yelling at the tourists feeding the Phoenix Park deer’
I made a pact with myself that I’d never get annoyed at tourists...but I’ve broken it for a Dublin Bambi
Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocation
Review: Phillip McMahon's story of a returning emigrant offers few innovations but vivid performances and resonant dialogue
‘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
‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatre
Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers
Accountability fears stymie efforts to change culture of Irish theatre
Speak Up & Call it Out initiative could be turning point in controversy over Gate allegations
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
Father’s Day: My father before he was a dad
Malachy Clerkin, Amy Huberman, Una Mullally and more on their fathers as young men
Heartbreak: Emmet Kirwan's dazzling short film shows pressures on young Irish women
The writer’s latest short film, developed from a stage show, follows one girl’s journey through young motherhood
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Town is Dead review: Kitchen-sink realism meets a spry chamber opera
Phillip McMahon's new collaborative work is `a play within music' that looks to celebrate the unsung heroes among us all
Abbey Theatre to ‘interrogate rather than celebrate’ Easter Rising
Waking the Nation programme to mark 1916 centenary has three world premieres
Team Panti: the making of a queen
Panti, Rory O’Neill’s drag queen, is the subject of a new film. Her persona and what she represents are the result of decades of collaboration
DTF review ¦ I’m Your Man: Redemption through the power of love and music
Mark Palmer and Thisispopbaby create a rock and roll journey through Matthew’s passion
Culture Shock: Killing art won’t create hospital beds. It will just make society duller
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we told our young citizens to dream big, indulge your imagination, create? Wouldn’t it be decent if we told our artists to stop apologising?
Peter Crawley’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
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