Deirdre Kinahan

‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern Ireland

Dublin Theatre Festival: A secret survivor of sexual assault encounters her rapist years later

Róisín Ingle meets the 15-woman cast of the Abbey play about sisterhood in Ballymun

Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival

It’s hard to see what ground Deirdre Kinahan’s new Irish version of Michel Tremblay’s play can break

In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War

The story of Ettie Steinberg, the only Irish person killed in the Holocaust, has been reworked into a play that gives her back her humanity and ‘lifts her out of that mess’

Friends pay tribute to the actress, best known for her extensive theatre work and film roles including The Butcher Boy and Adam and Paul

Group calls for new protections for heritage sites following Disney’s use of Skellig Michael

Two site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productions

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

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

Deirdre Kinahan’s new play fits a love triangle over the forces of the Rising. But can it be contained?

The playwright’s new production Wild Sky eschews the grand Dublin narrative for a rural perspective on 1916

Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry

The relationships between the Abbey Theatre, the Government and the Arts Council show plenty that’s wrong with arts governance in Ireland

The National Theatre’s maddeningly male 1916 centenary season highlights the difficulties that face women who work in Irish theatre

The full script for The Arc, a project devised by The Irish Times and Dublin Theatre Festival

The action takes a violent turn in the hands of Brokentalkers

Tickets are now on sale for a rehearsed reading of our collaborative play, featuring contributions from Tom Murphy, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and many more

Deirdre Kinahan captures the claustrophobia of small town society and family life in a play that transcends its bleak premise

Tom Murphy began our collaborative play for the Dublin Theatre Festival; here, Enda Walsh gives the plot a surreal twist

Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work

22nd year of sponsorship awards celebrates what happens when “two worlds collide”

So says playwright and actor Stefanie Preissner of trying to get your show noticed at the Fringe, which, like negotiating the hilly city itself, can be an uphill slog or a freewheeling delight