Aviation tycoon Aengus Kelly in major merger on Shrewsbury Road
Plus: Derry Girls actress Siobhán McSweeney discontinues Liss Ard case, Denis O’Brien’s house fetches €3.26m and Imma patrons get to go away with the director
Abbey Theatre
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
Ralph Fiennes at the Abbey Theatre: An electrifying, moving reading of TS Eliot’s Four Quartets
The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024
‘Watch your step’: Steve Coogan takes Patrick Freyne backstage at Dr Strangelove
The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025
Emma review: Agreeably quirky take on Austen shakes the story’s structure a little too vigorously
Theatre: Toni O’Rourke plays Emma with gusto, and Hannah Mamalis is hilarious as Harriet. Despite some narrative overreaching, you’ll probably leave happy
Is this the final chapter for Books at One as Dublin and Cork shops close?
Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
The Abbey has fun with Jane Austen’s Emma: ‘Our production is curious about her libido’
Kate Hamill’s adaptation, starring Toni O’Rourke, explores the psychology of what drives the much-loved protagonist, says director Claire O’Reilly
Jenna Ortega and Tim Burton take seats at Abbey in Dublin for Aidan Quinn and Steve Buscemi one-off
Stars take part in reading of Sam Shepard’s play Ages of the Moon for Irish national theatre’s Love at First Sight season
‘A period piece, a has-been, totally unknown to this generation’: Rediscovering WM Letts
Winifred Mabel Letts was a groundbreaking female author who wrote across literary forms and genres throughout the first three-quarters of the 20th century. Her work and legacy merit greater attention
Actor Kate Gilmore: ‘I look at myself – no mortgage, my car is falling apart, I have no money in the bank’
Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin
Steve Buscemi to join fellow star Aidan Quinn for Abbey Theatre performance
Buscemi and Quinn will read Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon at the Irish national theatre in Dublin this weekend
Safe House: Enda Walsh’s new work is an oppressively desolate song cycle
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Collison brother buys period pile in heart of Dublin 4′s embassy belt
Plus: Dublin New Year’s Eve celebrations to be split in two across traditional city lines; Phil Hogan’s exclusive Brussels club; and the new plan for Terenure Synagogue
Grania: Lady Gregory’s epic love story takes on a new lease of life in its Abbey debut
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The thorns and snares of lust and envy are forces to be reckoned with in Caitríona McLaughlin’s reimagining
Trouble Denim: An anarchic comedian adjusts to chaotic life on the road
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic
The Abbey’s €1m controversy: What went wrong?
Eighteen things we have learned or should not forget about governance failures, foot-dragging and bungling at the national theatre
Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purpose
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30
Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer
Palpable sense of relief and positivity at Abbey Theatre following publication of report
Directors acknowledge ‘acceptance of the past, of gaps in governance, to correct course and make changes’
Abbey Theatre report finds ‘unclear’ governance and poor handling of issues involving former directors
Independent review by Crowe Ireland also finds ‘significant failure’ in record keeping
Looking East: Exploring 75 years of Ireland-India ties
Epic museum exhibition showcases mutual struggles of both countries as they gained independence
New Abbey chair appointment process ‘under way’, as governance report awaited
Department of Arts says Arts Council has primary governance responsibility for the Abbey Theatre
Former Abbey Theatre directors ‘address mistaken impressions’ about payments they received
Governance report still not released by national theatre, while chairwoman’s term is set to end in weeks
The Irish Times view on the Abbey Theatre’s summer closure: questions must be answered
The decision comes in the wake of a long-running but as yet unresolved series of controversies over finances, culture and governance
An American on the Irish sense of humour: ‘I’m very literal ... I thought everybody hated me’
Actor Tierra Porter came to Ireland in 2019 from Georgia, in the US. Her expectations were wildly different from the reality of living in Dublin
The Abbey Theatre is vacating the stage during peak season for reasons unknown. What is going on?
The events that have unfolded over the past five years at the national theatre raise obvious parallels with the RTÉ debacle
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandaries
Annabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitors
Abbey Theatre to go dark until autumn after its next play ends
The national theatre will stage no in-house productions between late July and late September
Young Offenders star Chris Walley: ‘What is it about Cork? I dunno. That’s a dangerous question to ask a Cork person’
The Young Offenders star’s busy schedule continues with the Abbey Theatre production of Elizabeth Kuti’s The Sugar Wife
Tom Moran Is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar review: Vulnerable exploration of a journey from self-hatred to self-fulfilment
Theatre: More than any other factor, the catharsis he is seeking onstage is an attempt to process trauma that he feels stems from an insecure attachment at home
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Hilary Fannin: ‘You’re faced with something so mad – maybe you’re going to die’
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
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