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

‘How to Keep an Alien’ wins best production award

From comedy and therapy to dance and aerobics, from quick fixes to four-hour marathons, we have a Fringe show for you

Veronica Coburn’s comedy brings a 1920s play honking into the 21st century

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