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
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
This staging of Tom Murphy’s Chekhov adaptation should resonate more with contemporary Irish audiences
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Fascinated with ideas of art and ambiguity, Nancy Harris’s play sees long hidden secrets dredged up
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
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
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 Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s play
Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play
David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
‘Thirst (and Other Bits of Flann)’ draws from ‘The Dalkey Archive’ and other stories
This directorless sampling of Flann O’Brien ends up looking like an actors’ lock-in
‘Creative documentary’ tells of Nazi rocket scientist who played key role in 1969 event
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
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
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
Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye
The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production
Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
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
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous
Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text
The staging of this Abbey production is adventurous, but the production as a whole errs on the side of the traditional
‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director
Mark O’Rowe’s stark production treats the the play almost as a documentary and cleverly casts against type
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
