This gruelling adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel is alarming for good reason

An Irish rape case exposes a culture of victim-blaming in the stage adaptation of Louise O’Neill’s novel; repressed desires drive a boy’s own story from Kabul to San Francisco

Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’

Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’

New production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young man

John Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the Gate

Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe

‘Medea’ misses the mark while ‘Risurrezione’ goes down a storm

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages

McHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plot

This reprisal of Tom Murphy’s meticulous play is the Abbey’s best show in years

Fiach Mac Conghail says reaction sparked ‘a professional and personal crisis’

Simon McBurney, Robert Lepage and Brian Friel all know that, whether they escape us, prove false or exert a destructive hold, memories always keep us in their grip

Brian Friel’s 1990 play about five sisters in 1930s Donegal is finally being directed by a woman, Annabelle Comyn, and she intends to expose its hidden darkness

Annabelle Comyn’s respectful and inquisitive revival is engaged with nostalgia, particularly the pain at the root of that word

Q&A with Irish actor Rory Fleck Byrne: ‘It took going abroad for me to realise how much Ireland has contributed to the world of theatre and film’

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

As an actor you may have only a few lines – or none at all – but you can still make the most of a role, as Dee Burke, who’s appearing in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Abbey, and John Doran, who features in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Gate, are proving

Abbey production of Ibsen’s drama feels stilted