Abbey Theatre reopens for a select few but ‘it feels like 80,000 at Croke Park’
Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt
Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt
Dublin Theatre Festival: Fionnuala Kennedy’s play stays true to the experiences of young people in care
Despite, or perhaps because of, their differences ‘Every Day I wake Up Hopeful’ and ‘East Belfast Boy’ share several attributes
A three-day showcase of new work by northern artists highlights the work of a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health
He’s worked on Alan Partridge, adapted Fifty Shades of Grey, and is evangelical about ‘deliciously evil’ vaping. But when it came to tackling August Strindberg, Patrick Marber says his ‘infidelity might be an act of love’
Willy Russell’s Liverpool drama travels to Belfast and gets a different accent and a calm ferocity
A biting comedy of manners that spirals into a shaming demonstration of bad manners
A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast
A theatre production puts the audience up close to atrocities such as the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust and Bloody Sunday to pose questions about happiness in a ‘horrible world’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices