Mark Palmer and Thisispopbaby create a rock and roll journey through Matthew’s passion

Can a main character who resists emotion and metaphor survive on stage? Simon Stephens takes on the challenge in his adaptation of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’

Manchester’s adventurous company Quarantine uses dance as a portal to the imagination

How hard can learning one bit of a sonnet be? And shouldn’t watching it make for terrible theatre? Well pull up a chair so

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

The pioneering theatre company is taking an aggressive approach to Chekhov’s sprawling, untitled play and has even introduced a live director’s commentary – can it be tamed?

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

The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage

Offence is in the eye of the beholder, but Irish theatre has a robust reputation for pushing boundaries, and many theatres and companies have suffered for their artistic freedom

Brian Friel’s 1990 play about five sisters in 1930s Donegal is finally being directed by a woman, Annabelle Comyn, and she intends to expose its hidden darkness

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride