‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born
Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
Edinburgh Festival Fringe
We’re told the menopause is now mainstream in culture, but is it really? And does it need to be?
Channel 4 comedy series and Women’s Prize shortlisted novel sit just beyond the mainstream, and maybe that’s okay
Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century
The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Paddy Daddy: Gloriously camp cabaret chronicling Mark T Cox’s intimate affairs in rural Ireland
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is
Dylan Moran: ‘Everybody now is in a boiling froth of panic the whole time... we’ve completely regressed’
Navan native talks about stealing records, being a ‘rainbow goth’ and how a trio featuring Ardal O’Hanlon led him to his comedic calling
Stand-up comedy: I never knew that five minutes could feel like a lifetime
‘In reality, being a comedian isn’t as good as I thought, and it isn’t as bad as I thought’
Ed Byrne: ‘I don’t know if I would have given stand-up a go if I had stayed in Ireland’
Dublin-born comedian returns to Ireland for stage show in which he tells story of death of his younger brother Paul
Baby Reindeer’s Richard Gadd on the true story behind the show: ‘People are afraid to admit they made mistakes’
The Netflix series tells the story of a man being stalked by an older woman and his life falling into disarray
Edinburgh fringe funniest joke: Zookeeper pun wins the title
‘A huge thank you for awarding my stupid joke with this title’: Comedian becomes the second woman to win the award in its 14 years
‘We’ve all done it’: Dara Ó Briain offers support to actor after only one person attends her show
Georgie Grier posted message on X about Edinburgh Fringe Festival experience with her one-woman play Sunsets
I often wondered if I’d have been happier if I didn’t pursue my dream
Irish comedian Peter Flanagan: The idea of doing the Edinburgh Fringe used to terrify me. This will be my first year
How to Bury a Dead Mule: ‘People went weird around my grandfather. They played cruel tricks – someone set fire to his trousers’
Richard Clements’s How to Bury a Dead Mule, at Edinburgh Fringe, is a powerful account of the effects of war on the soldiers who have to fight them
‘When the revolution started, I was not political. Then people started to die’
Counting Sheep began life at the heart of the revolution on Ukraine’s Maidan. Is it more than radical tourism?
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