Citysong review: An Irish family’s entrancing journey across generations
Dylan Coburn Gray’s play for voices builds up a huge picture through small details
Dylan Coburn Gray’s play for voices builds up a huge picture through small details
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival
Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare
Tough choices: audiences get to elect their own prince in Pan Pan’s brilliant alternative take on ‘Hamlet’ at the Abbey; while Veronica Dyas, Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky share a Mother in Dyas’s new production ‘My Son My Son’
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
From the giddy highs to the worrying lows, or a rooftop to a grave, this week's theatre highlights span the course of a lifetime.
Playwright will use support to develop new play about ‘gaslighting’ and memory
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
There’s still time to apply for the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary. Last year’s recipient Dylan Coburn Gray has won the Verity Bargate Award in the UK
Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival
The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years
The playground is a battleground in Animalia, while Looking Deadly pits a pair of small-town rival undertakers against each other
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives
Waking the Feminists meeting hears call for equal advancement of women artists
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
Amy Conroy’s new play is a mysterious family drama about a hard-won reconciliation and the making of a man
Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about families
This year’s series brings theatre, music and an eye-catching hot air balloon to the city
Galway International Arts Festival rolls into the City of the Tribes this weekend, and in among the visual arts, theatre and music there's some great food to be found
Biggest talking point likely to be Patricia Piccinini’s giant Sky Whale, which created quite a stir when it appeared in Melbourne in 2013
Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway
This show for ages six and up broaches some important issues around identity and inclusion, but dramatically it feels embryonic
The harrowing ’A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing’ is hard to shake off
From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you
A few years ago Amy Conroy was in a rut. Now she has set up the HotForTheatre company, written three plays – including Break, at Dublin Fringe Festival – and toured the world. Could we all benefit from some creative thinking?
In the aftermath of a tragedy a school turns to music to find rhyme and reason
Five years on from her ‘mad’ appointment – ‘they hired a 27-year-old amateur’ – Róise Goan, outgoing director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, leaves it in its most mature state yet
Dublin Fringe Festival director Róise Goan to hand over role to Canadian at event’s end
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices