National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Dublin Theatre Festival: Yaël Farber hones play’s divisions into survey of allies and enemies

Stand-in host brings distinctive spin to adoption and referendum issues, but Gay Byrne remains the old master

Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’

Actors, writers, directors, producers, designers and stage managers sign statement supporting others who ended silence about abuse of power

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages

In this empathetic and slippery production, as his confusion grows, so does ours

Audiences are likely to be lacerated in the crossfire of this explosive revival

The riddle in Wayne Jordan’s limpid new version of the Greek tragedy is how anyone stays blind to the truth

This proud anniversary production of a play last staged just four years ago feels more familiar than heritage drama; more rote than the Mass

Shakespeare isn’t getting any younger, and here his Midsummer action finds itself wandering the halls of a nursing home