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Abbey Theatre’s artistic director Caitríona McLaughlin and executive director Mark O’Brien are getting the organisation ready for an extended building, creating a cultural hub in Dublin 1. Photograph: Rich Gilligan Abbey Theatre co-directors: ‘We want our artists to have a hand on the steering wheel’
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • January 20, 2022

Caitríona McLaughlin and Mark O’Brien on the way forward for the national theatre

The Gate Theatre auditorium, cleared of seats to create a studio space during Covid lockdown. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • November 20, 2021

Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge

Nick Drake’s All the Angels premiered at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse in London in 2015 and now comes to Smock Alley Theatre. Photograph: Patrick Redmond How Handel's Messiah was brought to life by Nick Drake’s All the Angels
  • Sara Keating
  • November 20, 2021

The play, which charts creation of the classic piece, premieres in Ireland this week

Selina Cartmell steps down after a five-year term as director and CEO. Photograph: Tom Honan Gate Theatre unable to present full year of productions in 2022
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • November 17, 2021

Dublin theatre grapples with ‘unsustainable’ financial model and Covid fallout

MASS will be staged in the vast, abandoned space that was the Belfast Telegraph’s print room MASS: New show merges opera, queer sexuality and religion in Belfast
  • Jane Coyle
  • November 16, 2021

Outburst Queer Arts Festival: Church at the centre of new ‘experiential’ show

Demos: aided by David Coonan’s impressive score, played live and recorded by members of the Crash Ensemble, the dance feels less harnessed than Liz Roche’s previous works. Photograph: Steve O’Connor Demos: A filmed dance finally makes the stage – and sweaty in-the-fleshness wins out
  • Michael Seaver
  • November 12, 2021

Dublin Dublin Festival: Liz Roche Company’s piece explores togetherness and separation

May B: Maguy Marin’s contemporary choreography creates a visceral connection between performers, work and audience. Photograph: Hervé Deroo May B: No question about it – this is a dance classic
  • Michael Seaver
  • November 8, 2021

Dublin Dance Festival: Maguy Marin’s contemporary work still dazzles after 40 years

Ian Shaw: the son of the Jaws star Robert Shaw is winning rave reviews for The Shark Is Broken. Photograph: Lauren Fleishman/New York Times Ian Shaw: ‘I used to see Dad drink. I was often playing under the table in Irish pubs’
  • Alex Marshall
  • November 8, 2021

The actor on his father, Jaws star Robert Shaw, and the problems that plagued the film shoot

The Misunderstanding of Myrrha: Julie Koenig, in a dramatic head-dress, fully expresses her character’s embodied trauma. Photograph: Fionn McCann The Misunderstanding of Myrrha: Unwaveringly intense, wonderfully danced
  • Michael Seaver
  • November 4, 2021

Dublin Dance Festival Winter Edition: Junk Ensemble’s highly visual aesthetic has rarely been as minimal

Straight to Video: Emmet Kirwan’s new play is a fantastic feast of comic nostalgia Straight to Video: Energetic performances and whip-smart writing
  • Ciara L Murphy
  • November 3, 2021

Theatre review: Emmet Kirwan’s play builds to an exciting and unexpected climax

Lee Mack: ‘Turning the vegetable patch is easier than thinking of jokes.’ Photograph: Anthony Harvey/Getty Lee Mack: ‘My grandad used to always say, Go to Ballina, it’s the family place’
  • James Helm
  • October 31, 2021

The comic on his Irish roots, meditation, stand-up and advice from Robbie Keane

May B by Compagnie Maguy Marin will headline the Dublin Dance Festival Beckett-inspired dance piece to headline pop-up winter festival
  • Seona Mac Reamoinn
  • October 30, 2021

Dublin Dance Festival features the acclaimed work of dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin, plus Junk Ensemble and Catherine Young

In John Scott’s Evolutions, we see the evolution of social order through modern dance. Photograph: Luca Truffarelli Evolutions review: Joyful, reflective and perfect for these times
  • Seona Mac Reamoinn
  • October 29, 2021

John Scott’s latest production reflects his own evolution as a dancer

During her time at the Gate, Selina Cartmell produced 11 world premieres including seven Irish premieres of contemporary writing. Photograph: Tom Honan Selina Cartmell to step down as artistic director of Gate Theatre
  • Olivia Powell
  • October 28, 2021

‘It has been five rollercoaster years of which I’m hugely proud,’ Cartmell says

Morgan Bullock: ‘I never used to use the word ‘surreal’, but that’s the only way that I can describe it’ Morgan Bullock: ‘I watched Riverdance and never saw somebody who looked like me’
  • Hollie Geraghty
  • October 22, 2021

Virginia-born Irish dancer explains how posting TikTok video led to joining hit show

Glue: the reunion of John Cronin and Robbie O’Connor’s characters sets in motion a series of unexpected revelations that challenge the boundaries of recovery, friendship and power. Photograph: Ste Murray Glue: A dark, unusual, timely play that pulls no punches
  • Ciara L Murphy
  • October 21, 2021

Dublin Theatre Festival: Robbie O’Connor’s debut has much to say about the insidious nature of predatory behaviour

Maura Bird, Mark D’Aughton, Gene Rooney, Simon O’Gorman and Alexandra Conlon in Bang! Photograph: Ste Murray Bang!: Impressive exploration of complex themes of gender and identity
  • Sara Keating
  • October 18, 2021

Dublin Theatre Festival: Michelle Read’s play is nuanced and deeply attuned to character development

Night Dances: Robyn Byrne, Jessie Thompson and Aoife McAtamney in Emma Martin’s production. Photograph: Leon Farrell/Photocall Ireland Night Dances: Raucous, loud and sweaty, this is a thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music
  • Michael Seaver
  • October 14, 2021

Dublin Theatre Festival: Emma Martin shows us that the best response to a challenge is to dance back

iGirl: Olwen Fouéré in Marina Carr’s new play. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh iGirl: Olwen Fouéré stalks the stage in Marina Carr’s multidimensional piece of theatre art
  • Sara Keating
  • October 14, 2021

Dublin Theatre Festival: This deeply collaborative work asks how to make sense of our own stories in the continuum of human history

Bang! playwright Michelle Read: ‘When you’re trying to create something dramatically, you’re talking to the people who are living it and trying to refine that experience.’ Photograph: Ste Murray Michelle Read: ‘We’re very good at masking how we’re feeling’
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • October 12, 2021

Performer and playwright’s new work Bang! explores trans identity in a family setting

Conversations After Sex: Kate Stanley Brennan and Fionn Ó Loingsigh in Mark O’Halloran’s new play. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Conversations After Sex: ★★★★★ for Mark O’Halloran’s extraordinary new play
  • Chris McCormack
  • October 11, 2021

Dublin Theatre Festival: Kate Stanley Brennan is sublime in Thisispopbaby’s production

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Frank McDonald the historian and journalist is replaced by McDonald the crusader for a better Dublin, in his new book. Photograph: AFP via Getty Eoin Ó Broin: I want to live in Frank McDonald’s Dublin
Fr Edward Daly waves a blood-stained handkerchief as men carry the fatally injured Jackie Duddy on Bloody Sunday, January 30th, 1972. Photograph: Stanley Matchett He shouted: ‘Help! This wee boy’s dying.’ The soldiers started clapping
British soldiers stand behind an armoured water cannon and armoured cars as tensions rise on Bloody Sunday in Derry. Photograph: William L Rukeyser/Getty Phil Coulter on Bloody Sunday: ‘You just felt the whole city had been violated’
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