Marina Carr and Caitríona McLaughlin on The Boy: ‘We’re constantly being told what to do, what to think. We’ll turn into zombies’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays

Lana Del Rey in Dublin review: By far the strangest performance the Aviva has hosted

This gig raises the question of where artistic expression ends and doing right by your fanbase begins

Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival

Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act without Words I

Paul Mescal in a Streetcar Named Desire: Known for portrayals of hurting hunks, he is ferocious as Stanley Kowalski

In this revival of Tennessee Williams’s story, Mescal’s half-despised, half-beloved brute has but one decent emotion

A Streetcar Named Desire review: Hot and bothered in New Orleans

Theatre: Cathal Cleary’s lucid production features a pleasingly young cast, including an impressively fluid Eavan Gaffney as Blanche DuBois

A Californian woman in Dublin: ‘Ireland’s not perfect, but I do think as a whole it is moving in the right direction’

Morgan Steele from Los Angeles, California, first moved to Ireland in 2017

The Glass Menagerie: Delicacy and tenderness but overwrought moments, too

Theatre: It is impossible not to try to guess what director Emma Jordan was aiming in terms of vocal style and script

The Rose Tattoo: Tennessee Williams’ vision slips away as comic hilarity replaces sexual seduction

Theatre: The harder this drama works to make Williams’ play accessible, the more ridiculous it seems

The Rose Tattoo: ‘There will be women in the audience cringing that these things are even talked about’

An inspired new production of The Rose Tattoo moves the setting of Tennessee Williams’s play from Italian America to an Irish halting site

Despite the troubles of the Trump years the US continues to offer so much

America Letter: Outgoing Washington Correspondent Suzanne Lynch reflects on the US

The Capote Tapes: From impoverished childhood to cocaine-fuelled decline

‘I felt like his story hadn’t been told,’ Ebs Burnough says about his Truman Capote documentary

English ‘chumocracy’: Boozy weekends and class disdain with the Camerons

London Letter: David Cameron has been embarrassed by a book about his inner circle

‘Filth’ at the Abbey – An Irishwoman’s Diary on Siobhán McKenna and Archbishop McQuaid

Fintan O’Toole: Coronavirus has made all familiar things strange

It should not take something as terrible as this to awake us to life’s inherent fragility