‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’
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
The Waiting Game review: ‘There is no glamour. It’s endless. Absolute murder’
It’s taken eight years for this tour diary to make it on to our screens, and for Johnny Murphy it marked the end of his acting road
The cultural quotes of the year: madness, middle age and mother’s advice
A selection of the best, oddest and most memorable musings by some of the world’s artistic greats, as told to Irish Times writers
Navigating through Beckett’s landscape
Beckett asks more of actors than any other writer: so how do you prepare to play his most demanding roles?
Culture Shock: Beckett’s Irish women finally have a distinctly Irish voice
Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’
‘Theatre is a horrible business’: the wisdom of Beckett’s chosen one
The genial German director Walter Asmus was initially scared of Samuel Beckett before gradually becoming the playwright’s personally anointed representative on Earth
Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight
Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue
Video: All the ways we fell in love with Godot
60 years on and we're still crazy about Waiting for Godot, Beckett’s most famous play
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