In the Middle of the Fields review: A timeless tale with a #MeToo edge
Premiere staging of Mary Lavin’s story of grief and vulnerability strikes just right note
The Haircut! review: King Labhraidh Loingseach gets a makeover
Dublin Theatre Festival: This perfectly paced production for ages eight and up retells the Irish folk tale for a new audience
The Stalls review: original, confident and hilarious
Skilful skewering as opera ensemble shows audience exactly what it’s like
Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival
Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Hamlet review: Ruth Negga stars in an oddly one-note interpretation
Dublin Theatre Festival: Yaël Farber hones play’s divisions into survey of allies and enemies
Inventions review: lingering hope resides in self-desctruction
John Scott’s blends choreographed madness with an 83-year-old calming presence
‘It’s still a crazy John Scott piece’: a veteran choreographer on his new work
Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Look Back In Anger review: Deconstructing a nasty piece of work
New production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young man
Girl Song review: A slow burn that’s more than the sum of its parts
Emma Martin’s new show seeps into the consciousness long after leaving the theatre
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
DTF Review | Oedipus: A blindingly obvious fate, in a crystal clear production
The riddle in Wayne Jordan’s limpid new version of the Greek tragedy is how anyone stays blind to the truth
Theatre review: Romeo and Juliet
Romeo’s love is a little more ice than fire in a production whose heart lies in its decadent set pieces
Peter Crawley’s cultural highs and lows of 2014
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
Review: Between Trees and Water
This tale, based on a 1939 court case, has chilling parallels with ‘modern’ Ireland
Review: Harp, A River Cantata
The spectacular opening show of the Tiger Dublin Fringe reimagined Dublin’s newest bridge as an ancient instrument
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