The Irish Times

After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland

The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions

Tue Apr 02 2019 - 05:00

Courtney Lewis serves up an energetic slice of Haydn

The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold

Wed Jan 27 2016 - 01:00

John Banville to receive crime writing award in Waterford

Waterford boasts strong connections to crime novelist Raymond Chandler

Thu Sept 17 2015 - 12:19

In the bag: from tiny shows to world tours

The Show in a Bag series is one of the strongest facets in the Tiger Dublin Fringe. So what’s the secret of its theatrical success?

Thu Sept 11 2014 - 01:00

Review: ID

The latest show from Galway’s Blue Teapot, which plays with the acronym ID, doesn’t make intellectual disability its only form of identification

Fri Jul 18 2014 - 17:05

Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight

Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue

Mon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00

Irish Times Theatre Awards

The Winners

Mon Feb 24 2014 - 01:01

The best of Irish theatre: this year’s nominees

Announcing the ’Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards shortlist for 2013. Terrible financial circumstances did not limit the diversity of productions, from knockout operas to one-man shows

Sat Jan 11 2014 - 13:00

Behind the curtain: the dark arts of dramaturgy

Help the writer deliver the best play possible. Get the basics right early. Do very little for a successful show, then claim the credit. Welcome to the tricks of the dramaturg’s trade

Tue Oct 08 2013 - 01:00

Operatic treats: Dvorak’s fairy tale and a love doll of Mrs Mahler

The past week saw operatic premieres in Dublin by Raymond Deane and, of all people, Antonin Dvorak

Wed Sept 25 2013 - 01:00

Winning isn’t everything

Rise Productions’ update of the Tír na nÓg myth is a mixed bag

Thu Sept 19 2013 - 13:00

Taking the lead

A couple of stalled lives discover a whirl of motion in Fishamble’s charming two step

Wed Sept 18 2013 - 15:45

Raymond Deane’s new opera is based on an artist who had a life-like doll made of his former lover

When Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, broke up with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he made an anatomically accurate doll of her, and that's inspired Raymond Deane's third opera

Mon Sept 16 2013 - 01:00