Conor McPherson

Bestselling author turned a modest country house into an exceptionally finished home

Wins for ‘Michael Inside’, Saoirse Ronan, John Connors, Aisling Walsh, Cillian Murphy

Artists played a vital role in the State's formation and since independence have held it to account

This week in the theatre

The #nowrongpath campaign reminds school leavers that exams are only one path to a career

The clock is ticking for Piper, but she stopped being the show’s star long ago

Conor McPherson’s shape-shifting drama bears the consequences of Paula’s own double life

The students of a murdered Baltimore nun investigate her killing decades later, and uncover a damning trail of abuse and cover-up

Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure

A TV show about London’s Black Panthers always seemed likely to push buttons,and is already raising temperatures over its depictions

Adrian Lynch wants to make ‘bigger shows’ – and more of them – for RTÉ One and RTÉ2

The panel of judges for 2017 has also been announced

The Irish community and locals are getting acquainted through an oasis of drama

Conor McPherson and PJ Harvey collaborate on a domestic drama with a heart of darkness

After 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks back

Careless direction means Decadent’s production never becomes the sum of its parts

Colgan has had towering successes but he leaves as subsidies and attendance dwindle

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

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

The theatre protest movement held two events in NYC, with organiser Lisa Tierney-Keogh saying its time to ‘kick the f**king door down’

Conor McPherson’s writing sweeps the audience along in this zippy production

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

James Joyce’s peerless short story is given a reading by Aidan Gillen in which his Gabriel Conroy is given a cruel and familiar form

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

From the male gaze to the female voice, it’s time to make a change

Three plays in the Dublin Theatre Festival attempt to capture the mess of modern life

Stars of ‘Love/Hate’ reunite on stage, but can’t see crime drama returning to screens

Abandoned by their creator and alone in a random world, the characters in Conor McPherson’s new play have more questions than answers

Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety

Conor McPherson’s talent as a playwright was precocious, but writing for a living was never part of the master plan

Profits at firm that operates theatre festival last year increased by 151 per cent

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway

He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work

Nevermind Mark O’Rowe’s return to dialogue, does his family tragedy for the Abbey signal a new commitment to realism? Or is anything here as it seems?

Delicious coincidence - Irish-style

West End adaptation of film scored by Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova triumphs

Real drama will be in the Green room as we actors click on iPlayer for the Paris matinee

Graham Linehan’s much-hyped new comedy gets off to a bad start, but Gabriel Byrne’s ‘Quirke’ redeems itself in the end

Brendan and Domhnall Gleeson nominated in the best actor category