Róisín McBrinn

Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director

The characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town home

Roddy Doyle’s stage version of his Barrytown novel gets a few minor millennial tweaks

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

The Snapper has been brought to the stage. But, with the benefit of hindsight, what can the stage bring to The Snapper?

The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge

Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’

Director Róisín McBrinn believes, like Shaw, that theatre changes lives

Written fitfully during the first World War and finally presented to an utterly changed world, Shaw’s experimental play remains tangled and complex. Can the Abbey make sense of it?

Prime Cut’s new staging of a Chilean double-header finds one post-conflict society exploring the memories of another. Are they simpatico?

A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast

Extra Peacock shows possible if theatre revenues improve