Clare Barrett

Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’

An unlikely couple face up to parenthood, and Maeve Binchy’s evergreen story

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats

Shay Linehan’s adaptation yanks hard on the heartstrings throughout its benign performance

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

The last story in The Dubliners is already full of song, but opera proved to be a great way of bringing out the ‘internal arias’ in characters’ heads

The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed

‘How to Keep an Alien’ wins best production award

Veronica Coburn’s comedy brings a 1920s play honking into the 21st century

A play within a play is without its cast. Can a stage manager save the day?

This butter-wouldn’t-melt production is a place of hapless priests and pushy housekeepers in a changeless world

A few years ago Amy Conroy was in a rut. Now she has set up the HotForTheatre company, written three plays – including Break, at Dublin Fringe Festival – and toured the world. Could we all benefit from some creative thinking?