In The Crucible at the Gaiety, Andrew McCarthy gives a fine performance, but this Miller should be more ambitious
Andrew Flynn’s conventional production of the Arthur Miller play ignores contemporary questions raised by MeToo and cancel culture
Rory Nolan
Andrew McCarthy: ‘Perks of fame involve vanity, ego and sex – all three get you in trouble’
On a break from rehearsals for The Crucible at the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, the Brat Pack actor talks about fame, solitude, friendship and his deep connection to Ireland
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events
Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights
Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
The Alternative review: Sly thought experiment which unpicks threads of history
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Fishamble’s new production, all of Ireland remains in the UK and now faces a referendum on whether to stay
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
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
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III
For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
Shelter review: History repeats itself in Cristin Kehoe’s admirably understated drama set in modern Dublin
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
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