Performer on the appeal of Deadwood, rising photographer George Voronov, and why Kindles are the ‘anti-phone’

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Artists and activists are searching for a national character lost in the boom and forgotten in the recession

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

In Conversation: Emmet Kirwan and Ian Lloyd Anderson

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

The screen fizzes with the talent of some of Ireland’s best actors. But it’s not enough

The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Radio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan Farrow

Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’

Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

Many performances around the country called off and festivals are severely curtailed

Stacey Gregg’s award-winning play about a teenager’s fraught search for identity and Grace Dyas’s new play about digging for truth in the shadow of a Magdalene Laundry

TV adaptation of George RR Martin’s Nightflyers and Wolfwalkers among highly anticipated productions

The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions