Dublin Theatre Festival announces Róise Goan as new artistic director
Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s relentless, increasingly frenetic mash-up of sport and rock music is an intense, thrilling experience
This year’s festival blends stage with cinema, dance, installation and more – with lots of €10 admissions
Willie White of Dublin Theatre Festival holds forth on the current state of the capital’s nightlife, and its need for a new municipal venue
More clarity will soon be needed on the return of live audiences
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
That is a nightmare for anyone trying to put on an event such as a festival
The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19
Dublin Theatre Festival 2020: Live performance is more important than ever, says Willie White
Brokentalkers’ sharp and stealthy new production asks us to examine our prejudices about the roots of crime, and the inhumanities of the prison system, offering no easy escapes
Developers are demolishing venues to build hotels, apartments and temples of finance
Creative citizens should be at the top of planning agendas, to counterbalance the commercial interests
EU’s new Be Spectactive! project aims to involve audiences in processes behind the arts
The irreverent company’s absorbing production interrogates the Irish Prison Service
Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White on Arts Council rows and Ireland’s cultural deficits
Company recorded surplus of €67,641 in 2017 as ticket sales increased 3.77%
Level of detail in some questions challenging but consensus is paper was very fair
The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work
Sound Off: Dublin Theatre Festival artistic director Willie White on O’Connell Street
Taoiseach reaffirms commitment to doubling expenditure on arts, culture and sport
Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’
Company behind 60-year-old event plans to clear shortfall in next three to five years
The #nowrongpath campaign reminds school leavers that exams are only one path to a career
Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’
General consensus that higher level paper ‘was very straightforward’
Her new work, with musician Neil Martin, is designed as a conversation between music and dance and sees her going back to her roots
‘Don Giovanni’, ‘A Midsummer Night’s Dream’ and ‘The Seagull’ on the bill for 2016
Festival clears deficit as box-office income jumps by 45 per cent
‘Indirect, implicit kind of equality is not enough. It needs to be explicit,’ event hears
HBO has been the actor’s main employer for years, which enables him to do smaller projects, such as a reading of Joyce’s story The Dead in Dublin this week
Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety
The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience
Walls Construction spun out from holding company and on track for €100m turnover
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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