Irish Theatre Awards

The highest-rated Dublin Fringe shows to see this week, as chosen by our critics

Two stand out productions from last year’s Dublin Fringe Festival go on tour

‘The story resonates with performers and freelancers because of need to take on so many jobs and prove to yourself that you haven’t f**ked up by going into the arts’

Comedians Spittle, McGathy and Mamalis enjoy experimenting at Dublin Fringe Festival

Making documentary theatre about his life has given the actor his first opportunity to tell his own story

Angela’s Ashes returns to Dublin in September. What’s it like to see your family’s story of growing up in poverty as a musical?

Timmy Creed quit disillusioned, then returned to tackle hurling’s ‘toxic masculinity’

The Big Chapel X, an adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel, sees the community of Callan, Co Kilkenny, revisiting a dark period of its past

New Playboy, bunch of world premieres lined up for this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers

US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany

A retrospective celebration of the extraordinary canon of work in just two years

If the national theatre is not world class or keen on Ireland’s dramatic canon, what is it for?

Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre

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

Dance and technology combined to show the benign and darker sides of humanity

A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy

New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes

Actors Janet Moran and Nyree Yergainharsian host 22nd Irish Times Theatre Awards at NCH

Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours