The Beacon by Nancy Harris review: West Cork murder mystery becomes a beautifully explored family conversation
Sara Joyce directs the Everyman’s revival of a witty play about contemporary modes of speech and even thought
Nancy Harris
Nancy Harris: ‘There’s something about other people’s weddings that tell us where we’re at in our lives’
The playwright’s newest offering Somewhere Out There You may play to the rhythms of a romantic comedy, but it’s just as interested in family dynamics
It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
RTÉ eyes ‘sense of normality’ as it promises drama and ‘fun’ in season ahead
Crime series Kin and game show Last Singer Standing among the schedule highlights
The Dry and Dead Still among TV projects to receive BAI funding
Regulator allocates €6.2m to television and radio sector as Minister boosts total
Our New Girl review: Sharp production of a stealthily gripping drama
Nancy Harris’s characters, scarred by experience, are torn between taking responsibility or seeking a hero
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
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
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
Home Theatre (Ireland) review: An innovation with life-changing potential
Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch
Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’
The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge
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
Theatre highlights of the week ending December 24th
In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend
Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
Gate Theatre to take the seats out for an immersive ‘Great Gatsby’
New director Selina Cartmell announces first programme, after Michael Colgan exits, stage left
Ten things we learned at the Theatre of Change Symposium
Tackling malevolent cupcakes, mutant lesbians and “the man problem” at the Abbey
Beyond the Abbey: the trouble for women in theatre
The National Theatre’s maddeningly male 1916 centenary season highlights the difficulties that face women who work in Irish theatre
Abbey director ‘regrets exclusions’ in programme
Fiach Mac Conghail says reaction sparked ‘a professional and personal crisis’
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