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
Selina Cartmell
It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
The Irish Times view on the Gate Theatre: a radical rethink
The fragility of the kind of funding model that relies so much on box office receipts has to be examined
Pandemic impact on Gate Theatre ‘financially devastating’
Theatre’s funding position has become increasingly difficult, accounts state
Selina Cartmell to step down as artistic director of Gate Theatre
‘It has been five rollercoaster years of which I’m hugely proud,’ Cartmell says
Starting a museum: 10 lessons I learned in 10 years
The Little Museum of Dublin, founded in 2011, is the people’s museum of the capital
Covid-19 highlights the gap between employees and freelancers in the arts
Hugh Linehan: Pandemic has helped highlight existing shifts in cultural production
Nancy Harris: ‘Plays are kind of cool now’
With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguity
Miriam O’Callaghan runs close to caricature of herself
Review: By the end of a compelling interview, O’Callaghan positively embraces her self-parodying side
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous party
The Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation
The woman bringing the Gate Theatre into the 21st century
Selina Cartmell, chief executive of the Gate Theatre: ‘I was given the support to be fearless’
Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution
Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’
Gate Theatre: Number of women directors up from 8% to 80%
Huge rise in number of women employed was sparked by Waking the Feminists movement
Mending the Gate: ‘Michael Colgan’s style was very different to mine’
The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
‘Not a Funny Word’ and ‘Assassins’: this week’s best theatre
Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers
Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aim
Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve
A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
Accountability fears stymie efforts to change culture of Irish theatre
Speak Up & Call it Out initiative could be turning point in controversy over Gate allegations
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Michael Colgan has ‘case to answer’ over behaviour at Gate
Review heard reports from 56 people about behaviour of former artistic director; board resignations to be fast-tracked
Theatre highlights of the week ending December 24th
In this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legend
‘It was tough . . . but I’ve stepped into a time in Irish theatre that’s really alive’
The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions
Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
Seven women allege abuse and harassment by Michael Colgan
'She’ll never work in Dublin again’ was a phrase that he used a lot around the office,' one woman recalled
Gate Theatre asks people to come forward amid sex harassment claims
Varadkar backs Gate Theatre’s move to address sexual harassment claims
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