Abbey Theatre reopens for a select few but ‘it feels like 80,000 at Croke Park’
Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt
Joanne McNally: ‘There was always a bang of show pony off me’
The Dublin comedian, who was adopted, explores what’s in our DNA in her new show
Madhouse review: PJ Gallagher’s gently comic coming-of-age story
Dublin Fringe Festival: Who are we to stigmatise mental disorder, the comedian asks
Ruth McGowan: making Dublin Fringe Festival more party than arty
The event’s new artistic director has some questions for the city. Is it listening?
What was the last gift you bought? ‘I bought someone a toll tag’
In Conversation: Playwrights PJ Gallagher and Una McKevitt
Dublin Fringe: festival launches a stylish programme
Capital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatre
‘I never, ever cry. Then after my mum’s death, there have been ‘why am I crying?’ moments’
Lian Bell and Cian O’Brien discuss their favourite artist, the last time they cried and much more
The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
Wilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both ways
‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum
Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway
Review: The Seagull and Other Birds
Pan Pan Theatre makes Chekhov’s play the centrepiece of its crammed and elusive aviary. Are they able to wing it?
Cork’s vital statistics
Rimini Protokoll’s 100% Cork puts a cross-section of society on stage. Are they more than just a number?
Cork Midsummer brings it all back home
This year’s Cork Midsummer Festival puts the city on stage. So who will be left to watch it, and will it amount to more than the sum of its parts?
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