The Irish Times

Banty’s Inferno: a Monaghan opera I just might write inspired by Elsewhere

An Irishman’s Diary

Thu Nov 11 2021 - 19:00

Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived

Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight

Wed Jan 13 2021 - 05:00

‘It had to be live, because liveness is the thing we have been starved of’

Dublin Fringe Festival asked them to create a new work and Malaprop Theatre jumped at the chance

Thu Sept 03 2020 - 05:00

Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain

Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work

Sat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00

Sole survivors get heeled: The best theatre of the week

Ask Too Much of Me addresses faith while Kinky Boots gives drag queens a platform

Fri Jul 19 2019 - 10:20

Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Wed May 22 2019 - 05:00

Amy Conroy awarded the Phelim Donlon playwright’s bursary and residency

Playwright will use support to develop new play about ‘gaslighting’ and memory

Thu Dec 07 2017 - 13:00

All the world’s a stage for playwright bursary

There’s still time to apply for the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary. Last year’s recipient Dylan Coburn Gray has won the Verity Bargate Award in the UK

Mon Nov 06 2017 - 17:00

Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programme

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

Tue Jul 25 2017 - 16:57

Jericho review: A show that wrestles with all of human history

Dealing with nothing smaller than human history, Malaprop’s stimulating new show might have taken on more than any one metaphor can properly smack down. Unless wrestling is the answer . . .

Fri Feb 24 2017 - 19:25