The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteen
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiences
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The Black Wolfe Tone review: A heavy-on-the-pedal psychodrama
Kwaku Fortune, in his stage-writing debut, plays a frustrated young man admitted to a psychiatric institution
‘I always had an affinity with Wolfe Tone. Maybe because I was told I wasn’t Irish’
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, why is Irish theatre still so white?
Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement
Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival
Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act without Words I
Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
Fishamble theatre company’s stolen award returned after successful campaign to locate it
Company’s prized Olivier award was stolen at the weekend during a break-in atDublin office
Fishamble theatre company appeals for return of stolen Olivier award
Award stolen during break-in at Dublin premises over weekend
Breaking: Two characters, four actors and a rotating series of scenes, emotions and meanings
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In Amy Kidd’s play, actors of different genders, races, backgrounds and accents portray the same unhappy couple
In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen McCartney nicely captures the emotional mess of sympathy, irritation and pain in this play by Joanne Ryan
King review: Incredibly compelling narrative but something isn’t quite right
Theatre: Pat Kinevane’s talent as a writer and performer are indisputable but it is time to consider a new format
The stage is (almost) set: Theatre coming our way in 2023
Including Frigid, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Twelfth Night, Reggie’s Guide to Social Climbing and Hangmen
The Treaty negotiations: a story of trust forged and trust broken
Did Lloyd George mesmerise Collins, or did Collins silently acquiesce to his pressure tactics?
‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint
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