Paul Mescal to return to Irish stage in ‘taut, explosive, pressure cooker of a play’
Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy
Marty Rea
The Dead review: James Joyce’s tragicomedy wraps around the audience in a hugely engaging, immensely accomplished evening
Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story
The Dead brought to life: how James Joyce’s celebrated short story is being re-created as an immersive experience
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin
‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House
The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
The Cherry Orchard: Druid’s Hiberno-Russian cocktail spills over
This staging of Tom Murphy’s Chekhov adaptation should resonate more with contemporary Irish audiences
Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
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
The Beacon review: Absorbing, intelligent and grimly funny
Fascinated with ideas of art and ambiguity, Nancy Harris’s play sees long hidden secrets dredged up
Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’
With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguity
‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
Faded Southern belles and pumped-up kicks: this week’s theatre highlights
The revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of wit
The Glass Menagerie review: A handsome but muted new production
The Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s play
Hitting the start button: This week’s theatre highlights
Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting
Beginning review: Beautifully measured tale of love in a time of social media
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play
Love in a modern climate: is romance just an antidote to loneliness?
David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Theatre: a new generation takes on the words of Flann O’Brien
‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories
Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann) review: Nostalgia, booze and tale tales
This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in
Leitrim-based film director to give a different perspective on moon landing
‘Creative documentary’ tells of Nazi rocket scientist who played key role in 1969 event
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for
Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production
King of the Castle review: An overlooked work steps into the canon
Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye
The Great Gatsby at the Gate: a magnificently entertaining, dizzying party
The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production
'Once you step over the threshold, you enter Gatsby’s mansion'
Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door
The best theatre shows to catch this week
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?
Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years
Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous
Druid Theatre announces rural tour of ‘Waiting for Godot’
Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text
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