Theatre and opera director on his new book, Side Stage: Theatre Writing 1984-2025; his wariness of celebrity actors; and his admiration for John Cleese
A €9 million renovation of a former Methodist Church on Abbey Street in Dublin will provide Irish National Opera with its first permanent base
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Abbey production has a thoughtful, accomplished first half, but then it loses focus and coherence
Padraic Colum’s death made front-page news in the New York Times in 1972, while F Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway feared his wife Mary’s rapier wit
Theatre: This take on La Locandiera, set mainly in a Dublin Italian restaurant, emphasises the universality of its central themes of misogyny and intimate violence
The writer and podcaster on adapting his short stories for the Abbey stage, how his podcast is used as a kind of advanced Duolingo, and how the fairies will rise against AI
A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together
Theatre: David Ireland’s play, first staged in 2018, unfolds in knockabout style but suffers from weaknesses in characterisation
‘It’s a bad loss for us, and I think we have to be cold about it and analytical about it’
Plus: mixed signals on Metrolink, taking back placenames and wine-testing at the Abbey
Scheme back and forth with Department of Culture and still requires approval of Department of Public Expenditure
The actor is on his way to the Abbey to star in Ulster American, an Irish-identity farce that reinforces the Ferris Bueller star’s long relationship with Ireland
George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy from 1913 is clearly a passion project for Conall Morrison, who is directing it at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. It can be hard to see why
The Dubliner’s roles at the Abbey date back to 1956 and continued until 2018
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play
The Abbey Theatre Costume Hire warehouses are a treasure trove for the imaginations of Ireland’s theatre makers
For The Whiteheaded Boy, at the Abbey, theatre director Ryan is drawing on the anarchic spirit of her Chicago past
Daughter of Dublin playwright Mary Manning was a ‘free spirit’ who dared to make the human soul her subject
Animals and the new Eoghan Quinn play Visions will run at the Abbey as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2026
May 30th-June 5th, 2026: The best music, theatre, art and more coming your way this week
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful
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’
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos reclaims a collective identity
Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry
The controversy in 1926 was a reminder that holding a mirror to your country can generate as much condemnation as gratitude
Tom Creed directs a cast led by Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Kate Gilmore, Michael Glenn Murphy, Thommas Kane Byrne and Mary Murray
Frank McNally sits in on a new production of Seán O’Casey’s play and revisits the ‘chaotic scenes’ that greeted it in 1926
Una McKevitt’s play turns into a riotous black farce. It’s a tonal shift that pays off
The Irish actor stars alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation
City centre rejuvenation to focus on vacant and derelict buildings and sites
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
He went to the Abbey Theatre to collect a rifle hidden under the stage and join the fighting
February 7th-13th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
After the Easter Rising, her patriotic ballads struck a chord with the public
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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