Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
‘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
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years
Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
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
Dublin’s most famous historical building is also the world’s oldest working post office
Postcards From The Ledge review: OMG – are those like actual feelings Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is having?
Jane Austen one-women musical is staged with lashings of sharp wit and loving irony
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 Belgian songwriter’s caustic social criticism is at the heart of the Gate Theatre production
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Bank holiday weekend food festival has big plans for its 10th birthday celebrations this week
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
Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style
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’
This week on Róisín Meets…Ross O’Carroll-Kelly creator on his futuristic play
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
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
Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention
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
David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick
The new Ross O’Carroll-Kelly play provides an evening of good, not-so-clean fun and unapologetically slapstick humour
In the third Ross play, his daughter arrives home with a 17-year-old version of him. And the key lesson from the first two plays? Writing comedy for the stage is very different to writing comedy for the page
Director Garry Hynes and her superb cast careful calibrate the tone of Boucicault’s melodrama
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