Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight

Druid premieres two original works while a new company take their maiden voyage with Foyle’s Punt

This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts

‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy

Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

As Dublin Pride kicks off, an exhibition looks at those still hiding in plain sight

Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option

Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020

What’s on: theatre and music and the best TV

Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival

Dublin festival is now seeking a new artistic director and a new general manager

‘Australia may be the flowers, but Ireland is the soil’

The award is part of this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards. The shortlists will be announced on Saturday

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

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

Play tells her own story of falling in love with an Australian, and having to prove it to the government

As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky

The best in theatre of past year are honoured at ‘Irish Times’ award show

It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings

The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off

The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival

The action takes a violent turn in the hands of Brokentalkers

Tickets are now on sale for a rehearsed reading of our collaborative play, featuring contributions from Tom Murphy, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and many more

Tom Murphy started it; Enda Walsh wouldn’t let it go; and now Deirdre Kinahan is exploring the bad blood and intrigue of La Reine Claude

Tom Murphy began our collaborative play for the Dublin Theatre Festival; here, Enda Walsh gives the plot a surreal twist

‘How to Keep an Alien’ wins best production award

When Sonya Kelly fell for an Aussie stage manager, the immigration bureau required documentary evidence. Wry, tender and imaginative, here is a stirring dossier of an accelerated romance

The success of autobiographical performances on the Tiger Dublin Fringe has placed a new emphasis on intimacy and honesty. But as more artists mine their family history for material, are they in danger of becoming overexposed?

WillFredd Theatre’s production reveals the courage that underpins the darkness and light, the ebb and flow, of life in a hospice

WillFredd Theatre’s exploration of hospice care creatively explores systems and coping strategies