What Ireland could learn from Canada about how to enhance its cities
Dublin still has no replacement for the demolished Tivoli Theatre. Vancouver can show it a way forward
Milk: Spectacle is tinged with tragedy in the Abbey’s Palestinian dance play
Bashar Murkus and Khashabi use the tools of contemporary theatre to portray despair in new ways
Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill: ‘I was resistant for a long time. I’m not into wizards’
The `Shakespearean' HBO fantasy brought the Northern actor to a wider audience, and he's not complaining
Men’s Business review: Avant-garde date night pregnant with commitment issues
Theatre: Rex Ryan and Lauren Farrell star in Glass Mask’s world premiere of Simon Stephens’s new play
Aurora: A Modern Myth review – An ecoaware play with a surprising amount of sass
Prime Cut’s production of Dominic Montague’s play doesn’t always work, but it’s definitely not dull
The Ferryman at the Gaiety review: This British play about the Troubles sounds as if it was written using Wikipedia
Jez Butterworth seems intent on showing all his research with a list of Irish counties and reference to banshees
Accents review: The late Eoin French’s remarkable music accompanies Emmet Kirwan’s fatherhood search
The musician’s death adds a layer of grief to this autobiographical drama, in which Kirwan is an expectant father exploring what it means to be a parent
As more hotels and office blocks rise up, where are Dublin’s promised cultural spaces?
The capital has entrusted commercial ventures with a chunk of its cultural future but some of the earmarked facilities are sitting empty
2025 on stage: 21 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
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
It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own: A swooning comedy for Dublin after the riots
Theatre: Ericka Roe is note perfect in Thommas Kane Byrne’s fabulous version of Dublin’s inner city
Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Mother Courage and Her Children review: A darkly comic road trip through a Europe at war
Theatre: Sandra O Malley delivers a career-defining performance in Blue Raincoat’s meticulous production of Bertolt Brecht’s 1941 play
The Tragedy of Richard III: Editing Shakespeare’s crude portrait of the disabled royal
Belfast International Arts Festival 2024: Oisín Kearney and Michael Patrick’s inventive staging exposes some of the play’s bile