Reunion review: Zinger of a play doesn’t flag for a second
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: With an ensemble of excellent actors, Mark O’Rowe’s new ensemble piece is a joy
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Hidden Assets season two: Halfway to being an effective Irish cop show
Television: The Irish scenes of this pan-European thriller crackle with chemistry. The confusingly written Belgian plot is harder to care about
Derbhle Crotty: ‘Waking The Feminists is having lasting consequence’
Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan after 25 years
BBC acquires RTÉ drama co-production Hidden Assets
Crime thriller set in Ireland and Belgium will be shown on BBC Four
Hidden Assets: An unlikely mishmash of suicide bombers, Irish gangsters and Angeline Ball
TV review: The Irish-Belgian-Canadian drama is Irish stew with moules-frites and maple syrup
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Home School Hub: Múinteoir Ray teaches kids when to don the gas masks
Patrick Freyne: What's ‘creepy’ about a middle-aged man enjoying kids’ educational TV?
On My Culture Radar: Mary McEvoy
The actor on the appeal of Helen Mirren and discovering the artistry of Odilon Redon
Prisoners of the Moon: The ‘100% Nazi’ behind the Moon landing
Review: V2 rocket scientist Arthur Rudolph was spirited to the US to work on the space programme
Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Leitrim-based film director to give a different perspective on moon landing
‘Creative documentary’ tells of Nazi rocket scientist who played key role in 1969 event
Edinburgh festivals: awards and acclaim – and exhaustion – for Irish performers
As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month
IFTA TV awards: ‘Derry Girls’, ‘Young Offenders’ among winners
Broadcaster Shay Healy also received a lifetime achievement award at the ceremony
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
The Approach review: An intricate puzzle of a play
Mark O’Rowe’s new drama finds that people are the hardest things to solve
The best theatre shows this week
Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe
Red Rock: TV3 show’s biggest cliff-hanger is its own future
Review: It would be a shame to wind down this expertly made, well written garda drama
‘You never know whether a play works until the actors are on the stage’
Mark O’Rowe’s latest play ‘The Approach’ was triggered by three women in his head
The statement of over 70 women supporting those who spoke out about Michael Colgan
Actors, writers, directors, producers, designers and stage managers sign statement supporting others who ended silence about abuse of power
Nowhere Fast: RTÉ’s new midlands comedy gets dark fast
Nowhere Fast stars Alison Spittle as Angela, a young woman in a downward spiral
Alison Spittle: ‘If you’re friends with a mad bastard, that’s your cross to bear’
The comedian on her new TV show 'Nowhere Fast', a sitcom about women, friendship, and where the men are little more than love interests
Peadar Lamb ‘gave so much to the country and its people’ – funeral Mass told
Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87
What happens to perspective when theatre adopts a first-person narrative?
Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective
Review of ‘Helen and I’: A gnarled family tree
McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot
Cheap seats are the future of theatre
Here’s six things we learned at Galway’s arts festivals, including some insights from the Abbey Theatre’s new co-director
Maeve Brennan story: The Day We Got Our Own Back
In 1922, when she was five, unfriendly men with revolvers raided the Brennan family home in Ranelagh, Dublin, in search of Maeve’s father, who was on the run
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .
After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The Match Box review: A bereaved woman plays with fire
A Liverpudlian mother is pushed to the edge of the world by a tragedy
Television: Dementia series no easy watch yet a surprisingly positive experience
Easier than ‘Dementiaville’ is ‘The Syndicate’, a drama about a group of ordinary Joes who win the lottery
‘Red Rock’ soap showdowns do the trick for TV3
Viewer ratings may have dropped since its debut, but make no mistake: this show is great value
Television: ‘Broadchurch’ rules the airwaves , while ‘Charlie’ seems all at sea
Review: David Tennant and Olivia Colman’s police drama is still a must-see – unlike RTÉ’s Charles Haughey drama
Television: Red Rock got off to a rollicking good start
Review: Anyone tuning in to see shaking scenery and ropey acting will have been disappointed
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