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Teresa Deevy: in recent years, critical attention has turned to her radio drama. Teresa Deevy and the secrets of the green suitcase
  • Stage
  • Caoilfhionn Ní Bheacháin
  • April 3, 2021, 05:00

Best known for her productions at the Abbey, the Waterford playwright also wrote for radio, and there’s a mystery surrounding the origins of unpublished work under a pseudonym

The Gate’s Selina Cartmell: ‘We were fighting for our lives’
  • Stage
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • March 27, 2021, 05:00

Closed for a year, the theatre is staging a new Frank McGuinness play written during Covid

  • 2 comments
Home: Part One – Brenda Fricker reading testimony from Patricia Breaden. Photograph: Ste Murray Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivors
  • Stage
  • Chris McCormack
  • March 18, 2021, 12:20

Theatre review: Powerful, earth-shifting testimonies are solemnly read as scripts

Claudia Carroll: somehow, by some miracle, might my little play get to see the light of day? Claudia Carroll: My wish for 2021? That bums end up on actual seats in an actual theatre
  • Stage
  • Claudia Carroll
  • February 23, 2021, 05:00

To have one cancelled show may be regarded as a misfortune; to have four looks like carelessness

Gare St Lazare’s adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s How It Is. Photograph: Clare Keogh Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal
  • Stage
  • Mary Leland
  • March 1, 2021, 05:00

Theatre scene that thrived before pandemic is busy planning for return to work

Once upon a Bridge: Aaron Monaghan and Siobhán Cullen in the Druid production of Sonya Kelly’s play. Photograph: Emilija Jefremova Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath
  • Stage
  • Chris McCormack
  • February 15, 2021, 12:45

Theatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives forever

Siobhán McSweeney as Winnie in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett. Photograph: Patrick Redmond When mainstream theatre closed, the avant-garde got busy
  • Stage
  • Christopher McCormack
  • February 8, 2021, 15:41

With productions shuttered, theatre has to break new ground to reach audiences

Samuel Beckett being at a rehearsal of Waiting for Godot in Paris, 1961. Photograph: Roger Viollet via Getty Failing better: The afterlife of Samuel Beckett’s best-known phrases
  • Stage
  • Terence Killeen
  • February 1, 2021, 05:00

Waiting for Godot; I’ll go on; Fail better: these are the endlessly adaptable words of a sage

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Siobhán McSweeney as Winnie in Happy Days by Samuel Beckett, presented by Olympia Theatre and Landmark Productions. Photograph: Patrick Redmond. Happy Days: Siobhán McSweeney brings a youthful exuberance to Beckett’s scorched world
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • January 31, 2021, 19:28

Theatre review: one-night-only live stream of new co-production reflects these times of isolation and uncertainty

  • 1 comment
Aisling O’Sullivan, Cathy Belton and Derbhle Crotty in The Approach by Mark O’Rowe. Photograph: Patrick Redmond '2020 was going to be the most amazing year ever for us'
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • January 16, 2021, 05:00

Producer Anne Clarke on experiencing live performance for first time since pandemic

When the curtain came down on Our New Girl, did it come down on innovative programming along with it? Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrived
  • Stage
  • Chris McCormack
  • January 13, 2021, 05:00

Several new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sight

Owen Roe pictured  after winning Best Supporting Actor Award at the The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards last year. Photograph: Aidan Crawley Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards for 2020 deferred because of Covid-19
  • Stage
  • Hugh Linehan
  • December 22, 2020, 12:31

Nominations for each categories in annual awards usually announced in early January

A new play seeks to challenge Samuel Beckett’s instructions that only men may appear in Waiting for Godot. Photograph: Ali Wright Waiting for Gobnait? Beckett’s ban on women challenged
  • Stage
  • Kate Wyver
  • October 19, 2020, 19:58

Female and non-binary performers are tackling Beckett’s rigidity in a new play

  • 3 comments
Callan Cummins Matthew Malone and Mary Murray in Fishamble: The New Play Company’s Embargo by Deirdre Kinahan.  Photograph: Anthony Woods Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
  • Stage
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 13, 2020, 05:00

Dublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuance

People celebrating the independence of Ireland on O’Connell bridge before midnight on Easter Sunday, April 17th, 1949. Photograph: Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images The Party to End All Parties: There is a lot going on in one-and-a-half smallish packages
  • Stage
  • Donald Clarke
  • October 9, 2020, 13:00

Dublin Theatre Festival review: Summoning the despair of an urban space in the time of Covid

Niall Henry, artistic director of Blue Raincoat Theatre Company in Sligo. Director Niall Henry takes on the lockdown challenge
  • Stage
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • October 12, 2020, 05:00

Henry marks 30 years of absurd, visual drama as Blue Raincoat packs up till Covid allows

Federico Julián González in Looking for América Looking for América review: Memory tells a different kind of truth
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • October 6, 2020, 05:40

Federico Julián González’s effortlessly engaging solo performance is personal but also has deep political resonance

Cora Venus Lunny, Caimin Gilmore and Olesya Zdorovetska in the Abbey Theatre’s production of The Great Hunger by Patrick Kavanagh at IMMA. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh The Great Hunger review: ambitiously staged, with scenes of rare beauty
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • October 9, 2020, 16:21

The setting at IMMA – the scope of sky and the breadth of landscape – brings to life a new theatrical version of Kavanagh’s poem

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Adrian Duncan, the author of Midfield Dynamo, explains  how he has organised the stories  in the 1-4-4-2 team formation. Midfield Dynamo: Arresting short stories – in team formation
Louise Kennedy: A major talent The End of the World Is a Cul de Sac: A masterclass by a major talent
New Yorkers is more concerned with the people who keep the city running than with the super rich. New Yorkers: A loving oral history that doesn’t shy away from darkness
Macnas, whose parades are a core part of their work, receive this year’s special tribute award. Photograph: Brian Arthur
Irish Theatre Awards Find out who won this year, plus all our other coverage
 

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Stanley Townsend in Incanttata. Photograph: Patrick Redmond When grief and art become a gruelling, physical process
An unsentimental look at a Dublin that will not accommodate its own
Come On Home: A tale of sexual repression and provincial suffocation

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