Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the worldâs biggest arts festival, is heading home: âIâm tired. You feel it to your bonesâ
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
David Ireland
The Lovers: Meet-cute? Check. Simmering romantic tension? Check. Authentically Irish? Check again
Television: This romantic comedy starring RĂłisĂn Gallagher aims to do for Belfast what Love, Actually did for picture-postcard London
Filming a live play during Covid: âWe were playing Russian rouletteâ
Producing David Irelandâs Sadie at Belfastâs Lyric Theatre for TV was nerve-wracking
Nicola Coughlan: On My Culture Radar
The Derry Girls actor on Hamilton, why Fleabag is award-worthy, and her unexpected friend Jonathan Van Ness
Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this week
Dublin plays host to Ulster American in the Abbey and Spotless in Smock Alley
Ulster American review: Exasperations, ultimatums and wearying repetition
The trouble with polemicists, in David Irelandâs satire, is that they might mean what they say
Cyprus Avenue and The Plough and the Stars: the best theatre of the week
Stephen Rea stars in David Irelandâs scabrous comedy; the Abbeyâs OâCasey returns
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatreâs directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
Play set in North wins James Tait Black Prize for Drama
David Irelandâs Cyprus Avenue centres on Belfast loyalist convinced grandchild is Gerry Adams
Voting closes at midnight in the Audience Choice Theatre Award
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards has one public vote category. And now is your last chance to have your say
Uplifted by Godot and let down by The Fall
Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages
Druid steals show at âIrish Timesâ Theatre Awards
âDruidShakespeareâ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director
Cyprus Avenue review: Stephen Rea delivers a masterful performance
David Irelandâs caustic new play is testing limits with plenty of unpalatable opinions and outrageous claims
Stephen Rea: âI canât imagine teams of loyalists rolling up to watch itâ
Stephen Rea stars as a paranoid loyalist in âCyprus Avenueâ at the Abbey
Abbey Theatre to âinterrogate rather than celebrateâ Easter Rising
Waking the Nation programme to mark 1916 centenary has three world premieres
Life after the Troubles in Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts | Theatre Review
What happens to the foot soldiers in the half-life of the peace process?
George OâBrien: âWriting has taught me to be disciplined, to be patient, to persistâ
Brought to Book Q&A: Irish author and academic on how he writes and what he reads
Review: Everything Between Us
David Ireland drops more than a few depth charges in one of the best pieces about conflict in âpost conflictâ Northern Ireland yet written
Peter Crawleyâs cultural highs and lows of 2014
The harrowing âA Girl is a Half-Formed Thingâ is hard to shake off
An actorâs journey into character
Tomorrow, this yearâs Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards will be presented. The nominees for best actor and best actress talk about the roles they play
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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