Space suits and priestly gear: the Abbey Theatre costume warehouse where everything’s for rent
The Abbey Theatre Costume Hire warehouses are a treasure trove for the imaginations of Ireland’s theatre makers
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‘I came to Ireland all guns blazing ... I didn’t know that was the least cool thing’
For The Whiteheaded Boy, at the Abbey, theatre director Ryan is drawing on the anarchic spirit of her Chicago past
This Poor Book: A Poem by Fanny Howe – a radical final act by an extraordinary Irish-American
Daughter of Dublin playwright Mary Manning was a ‘free spirit’ who dared to make the human soul her subject
Matthew Broderick to star at Abbey as theatre also announces ‘provocative’ Blindboy production
Animals and the new Eoghan Quinn play Visions will run at the Abbey as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2026
Event guide: Borris House Festival of Writing & Ideas, Forbidden Fruit and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
May 30th-June 5th, 2026: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
Soft God by Emma Martin – Powerful performances in a dance show where it helps to embrace the chaos
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful
Aidan Turner: ‘I’d be sitting in the trailer going, ‘God Almighty. Can you just give me a cop drama?’’
The Dublin actor says the main trick to being a professional is doing the work and learning the lines. ‘And then just staying as healthy and as fit as you can. There’s no excuse’
My Fierce Ignorant Step review – 60 hypnotic, exhilarating minutes
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos reclaims a collective identity
Do You Come from Gomorrah? review: Five stars for Frank McGuinness’s startlingly revelatory play
Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry
The Irish Times view on The Plough and the Stars: a century-old Irish classic
The controversy in 1926 was a reminder that holding a mirror to your country can generate as much condemnation as gratitude
The Plough and the Stars review: Abbey’s centenary staging features fine performances but doesn’t always gel
Tom Creed directs a cast led by Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Kate Gilmore, Michael Glenn Murphy, Thommas Kane Byrne and Mary Murray
‘It’s the All-Ireland final of theatre’: The Plough and the Stars, 100 years on from its riotous first run
Frank McNally sits in on a new production of Seán O’Casey’s play and revisits the ‘chaotic scenes’ that greeted it in 1926
Fair Deal review: Aislín McGuckin holds nothing back as a pantomime monster for the ages
Una McKevitt’s play turns into a riotous black farce. It’s a tonal shift that pays off
‘Wuthering Heights’ star Alison Oliver: ‘I really didn’t imagine a film career for myself’
The Irish actor stars alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation
Dublin City Council seeks €114m in funding to kickstart Taoiseach’s taskforce plan
City centre rejuvenation to focus on vacant and derelict buildings and sites
Fair Deal writer Una McKevitt: Buying a home is like ‘going to Mars – it takes up a huge part of people’s lives’
Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields
He went to the Abbey Theatre to collect a rifle hidden under the stage and join the fighting
Event guide: The Crucible, Maria Somerville and other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
February 7th-13th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
‘As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda’ – Frank McNally on rise and fall of street singer Mary Connolly
After the Easter Rising, her patriotic ballads struck a chord with the public
‘Celebrating our roots and growing together’: Dublin’s St Patrick’s festivities announced
Four days of ‘carnival’ promised with centrepiece parade of 12 large floats as well as marching bands
Next Year Will Be a Good One by Shivaun O’Casey: Life in the benevolent shadow of Seán O’Casey
More important than any encomium from this quarter, Seán O’Casey’s daughter diligently captures his life and legacy
The 1920s London Irish Theatre: Abbey’s difficulty was England’s opportunity
Nelson O’Ceallaigh Ritschel’s history shows extent to which Irish drama was important in London
Can a theatre critic make a living in Ireland in 2026?
Theatre critics are essentially hobbyists, criticism something to be squeezed between the demands of other work
2026 on stage: 20 headline plays in the year ahead, including Jodie Comer in Prima Facie
From a portrait of a declining Judy Gardland to comedy, film adaptations and musicals, there’s much to look forward to in the coming year
Is the Wood Quay monstrosity finally going to be demolished?
Could a magic wand finally reverse this gross example of urban vandalism, or will the Green lobby and preservationists intervene?
The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
Beauty and the Beast, Aladdin, Moulin Rouge!: Our critics’ verdicts on the pantos and shows to catch this Christmas
The Snow Queen and A Christmas Carol are among the highlights over the festive period
Playwright Seán O’Casey’s daughter: ‘He never seemed old to me... he was quite adventurous’
Seán O’Casey’s daughter Shivaun, a living link to one of our most famous playwrights, has written a memoir that includes previously unpublished letters from her father
‘Over a million kids have come here’: 30 years of The Ark children’s cultural centre
Creative director Aideen Howard says facility remains unique on the international stage
Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
Dublin Gothic at the Abbey: ‘It’s big, unapologetically dramatic, linguistically beautiful’
Barbara Bergin’s play follows three inner-city families across a century from the 1880s, and features more than 150 characters
Dublin Gothic at the Abbey review: Prepare for some archly provocative character assassination
Barbara Bergin’s huge, complex new play takes aim at some Irish heroes as it covers a century of life in the capital
Christmas calendar: What’s on around Ireland this festive season
Fun and family friendly events and activities from panto to light shows, candlelit concerts to craft workshops
Is the newspaper arts review dying or could it be rescued by subscribers?
If one culprit looms behind these shifts, it is the early digital consensus that everything should be free
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