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Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White: Why I had to make One Song this year’s closing show
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s relentless, increasingly frenetic mash-up of sport and rock music is an intense, thrilling experience
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The best shows to book, and how to get bargain tickets
This year’s festival blends stage with cinema, dance, installation and more – with lots of €10 admissions
‘I’m waiting for somebody to say, I love Dublin – it needs a fantastic cultural infrastructure’
Willie White of Dublin Theatre Festival holds forth on the current state of the capital’s nightlife, and its need for a new municipal venue
The Irish Times view on the return of live performance: a long way back for the sector
More clarity will soon be needed on the return of live audiences
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme of in-person events
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
There is a randomness to the way Covid-19 affects some places more than others
That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival
Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19
‘A city like Dublin needs to have life, and we want to be part of it’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2020: Live performance is more important than ever, says Willie White
Crime and punishment and gorilla suits: this week’s theatre highlight
Brokentalkers’ sharp and stealthy new production asks us to examine our prejudices about the roots of crime, and the inhumanities of the prison system, offering no easy escapes
No place left to show: How Dublin is turning into a cultural ghost town
Developers are demolishing venues to build hotels, apartments and temples of finance
The Irish Times view on Ireland’s creative spaces: the hollowing out of urban life
Creative citizens should be at the top of planning agendas, to counterbalance the commercial interests
Dublin Theatre Festival asks audiences to choose a play for it to stage
EU’s new Be Spectactive! project aims to involve audiences in processes behind the arts
The Examination review: No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play
The irreverent company’s absorbing production interrogates the Irish Prison Service
Who is Dublin for? Who do we want to share it with?
Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White on Arts Council rows and Ireland’s cultural deficits
Ticket sales recover for Dublin Theatre Festival
Company recorded surplus of €67,641 in 2017 as ticket sales increased 3.77%
Leaving Cert agricultural science: Students tested on topics ranging from soil to sheep
Level of detail in some questions challenging but consensus is paper was very fair
‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom Murphy
The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work
‘Why is the centre of the Irish world on St Patrick’s Day such a kip?’
Sound Off: Dublin Theatre Festival artistic director Willie White on O’Connell Street
Varadkar pledges highest ever investment in cultural infrastructure
Taoiseach reaffirms commitment to doubling expenditure on arts, culture and sport
Theatre directors condemn sexual harassment and abuse of power
Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’
Dublin Theatre Festival slipped into the red in 2016 after ticket sales fell 20%
Company behind 60-year-old event plans to clear shortfall in next three to five years
Leaving Cert 2017: It’s mad to have to decide your future now
The #nowrongpath campaign reminds school leavers that exams are only one path to a career
Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
Leaving Cert: No surprises on Agricultural Science paper
General consensus that higher level paper ‘was very straightforward’
Jean Butler: ‘It’s very exposing for both of us’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
Mozart and the Bard headline 59th Dublin Theatre Festival
‘Don Giovanni’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Seagull’ on the bill for 2016
Dublin Theatre Festival stages successful return to black
Festival clears deficit as box-office income jumps by 45 per cent
Waking the Feminists can act as ‘trailblazer’ for equality
‘Indirect, implicit kind of equality is not enough. It needs to be explicit,’ event hears
Aidan Gillen: ‘My ambition is to not have to chase money’
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
Dublin Theatre Festival opens with 28 shows in store
Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety
Heavyweights and new voices brand Dublin Theatre Festival
The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience
Management buyout at PJ Walls in deal worth over €10m
Walls Construction spun out from holding company and on track for €100m turnover
La Reine Claude, a collaborative play by some of our finest writers
The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival
Theatre festival stages financial revival despite fall in sales
Reduced ticket income at Dublin Theatre Festival blamed on fewer performances
Dublin Theatre Festival to stage work stretching from the epic to the intimate
Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work
City of Culture initiative continues to attract controversy
Karl Wallace’s resignation comes after row over chief executive job
The young ones: brave new writing takes over Irish theatres
Irish theatre is bursting with energy – but youth is all these artists have in common
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