The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
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
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
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
The fragility of the kind of funding model that relies so much on box office receipts has to be examined
Theatre’s funding position has become increasingly difficult, accounts state
‘It has been five rollercoaster years of which I’m hugely proud,’ Cartmell says
The Little Museum of Dublin, founded in 2011, is the people’s museum of the capital
Hugh Linehan: Pandemic has helped highlight existing shifts in cultural production
With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguity
Review: By the end of a compelling interview, O’Callaghan positively embraces her self-parodying side
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
The Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation
Selina Cartmell, chief executive of the Gate Theatre: ‘I was given the support to be fearless’
Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’
Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movement
The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers
Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
Speak Up & Call it Out initiative could be turning point in controversy over Gate allegations
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
Review heard reports from 56 people about behaviour of former artistic director; board resignations to be fast-tracked
In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend
The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled
Varadkar backs Gate Theatre’s move to address sexual harassment claims
Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’
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
Culture Shock: The bigger the Arts Council funding, the greater the inequality
And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up
New director Selina Cartmell announces first programme, after Michael Colgan exits, stage left
Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure
Dublin institution has been told it is being ‘stretched to the point of unsustainability’
In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's future
Waking the Feminists slate theatre organisations for below-par gender equality record
A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally
There is little about these Belfast sisters that bears a resemblance to Chekhov’s original drama
The TCD graduate will succeed Michael Colgan, Ireland’s best-paid arts executive, in January
Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle
Fiach Mac Conghail says reaction sparked ‘a professional and personal crisis’
When a female fighter pilot is moved to the Chair Force, the morality of remote warfare comes crashing down
‘Grounded’, George Brant’s well-travelled play about a female drone pilot, puts words on a growing sense of moral anxiety
Marina Carr’s bitter stretch of the Irish midlands is a sunken place full of ghosts and vengeance – will anyone make it out alive?
Comedy, aerial acrobatics and theatre part of festival which runs from September 7th-20th
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