Emmet Kirwan

The programme of 200+ acts extends across 13 stages and venues

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition

Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism

Performer on the appeal of Deadwood, rising photographer George Voronov, and why Kindles are the ‘anti-phone’

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Artists and activists are searching for a national character lost in the boom and forgotten in the recession

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

In Conversation: Emmet Kirwan and Ian Lloyd Anderson

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

The screen fizzes with the talent of some of Ireland’s best actors. But it’s not enough

The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge