The Irish Times

Abbey Theatre reopens for a select few but ‘it feels like 80,000 at Croke Park’

Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt

Mon Jun 21 2021 - 22:00

Joanne McNally: ‘There was always a bang of show pony off me’

The Dublin comedian, who was adopted, explores what’s in our DNA in her new show

Sat Sept 07 2019 - 06:02

Madhouse review: PJ Gallagher’s gently comic coming-of-age story

Dublin Fringe Festival: Who are we to stigmatise mental disorder, the comedian asks

Wed Sept 12 2018 - 12:15

Ruth McGowan: making Dublin Fringe Festival more party than arty

The event’s new artistic director has some questions for the city. Is it listening?

Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00

What was the last gift you bought? ‘I bought someone a toll tag’

In Conversation: Playwrights PJ Gallagher and Una McKevitt

Sat Aug 25 2018 - 06:00

Dublin Fringe: festival launches a stylish programme

Capital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatre

Wed Jul 11 2018 - 18:50

‘I never, ever cry. Then after my mum’s death, there have been ‘why am I crying?’ moments’

Lian Bell and Cian O’Brien discuss their favourite artist, the last time they cried and much more

Sat Nov 18 2017 - 06:10

The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed

Wilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both ways

Wed Nov 16 2016 - 19:00

‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum

Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway

Mon Mar 30 2015 - 06:00

Review: The Seagull and Other Birds

Pan Pan Theatre makes Chekhov’s play the centrepiece of its crammed and elusive aviary. Are they able to wing it?

Tue Sept 30 2014 - 16:25

Cork’s vital statistics

Rimini Protokoll’s 100% Cork puts a cross-section of society on stage. Are they more than just a number?

Mon Jul 01 2013 - 18:00

Cork Midsummer brings it all back home

This year’s Cork Midsummer Festival puts the city on stage. So who will be left to watch it, and will it amount to more than the sum of its parts?

Thu Jun 20 2013 - 01:00