Circle Mirror Transformation: Wonderful presentation of the before and after of theatre at the Gate
Theatre: Róisín McBrinn has created a magnificent Irish production of Annie Baker’s sublime play
Gate Theatre director Róisín McBrinn: ‘A big part of what I’m trying to do is ensure as many voices as possible are given space and power’
After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation
The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
Liam McCarthy: ‘Theatre is weird. The problem is that it’s all about public humiliation’
Playwright nervously awaits the opening of Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party, his reimagining of a Chekhov story now set in Limerick
Mother and Child review: A family reunion staged as a psychological drama
Theatre: This production has none of that oppressive intimacy; even as mother and child both discover they are sad products of their upbringings
Na Peirsigh/Persians review: A mind-numbing report from a miserable war
Theatre: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s translation of the tragedy by Aeschylus finds parallels with Irish history but sometimes succumbs to information overload
The Making of Mollie review: Anna Carey’s book is now a razor-sharp suffragette stage comedy
Theatre: In Sarah Baxter’s production at the Ark in Dublin, the story unfolds in an ingenious slapstick version of Dublin
Gaza’s oldest theatre lies in ruins. For the people who made art there, its story lives on
Rashad al-Shawa Cultural Centre, conceived by artist Laila Shawa and architect Saad Mohaffel, was destroyed in an Israeli bombardment
Bellow review: An odd-couple pairing between an avant-garde performer and a traditional musician
Theatre: Brokentalkers are aware they occupy a rarefied zone. This encounter between Gary Keegan and Danny O’Mahony enjoyably sends up their approach
Sive review: John B Keane’s dark tale struggles to get past the flaw at its heart
The Gaiety Theatre’s new production makes plain the limitations of a play that barely allows its title character an original thought
2024 on stage: 20 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
Stephen Rea brings Krapp back home, Hamilton comes to Dublin and Irish National Opera stages Salome
Thomas Kilroy’s death feels like the end of an era for Irish theatre
The writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel
Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present
Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays
‘What a rough day it will be for the drama when Ireland is freed’: Dorothy Parker’s extraordinary theatre criticism
The American writer’s six-year run as theatre critic, including for Vanity Fair, is rarely remembered, but its wit and fearlessness lit up Broadway a century ago
History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from