Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters
Jane Brennan gives a mesmerising emulation of de Valera’s paced, crystal voice
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Fascinated with ideas of art and ambiguity, Nancy Harris’s play sees long hidden secrets dredged up
With two new plays opening simultaneously in Dublin and London, the playwright lays bare both a family and a political drama, full of art and ambiguity
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
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
Short contracts: Actors Jane Brennan and Frank McCusker on the effect of the theatre’s new strategy
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work
A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally
‘Brooklyn’, ‘Room’ and ‘The Secret Scripture’ all have unapologetically literary sources
The relationships between the Abbey Theatre, the Government and the Arts Council show plenty that’s wrong with arts governance in Ireland
Wouldn’t it be refreshing if we told our young citizens to dream big, indulge your imagination, create? Wouldn’t it be decent if we told our artists to stop apologising?
As an actor you may have only a few lines – or none at all – but you can still make the most of a role, as Dee Burke, who’s appearing in ‘Hedda Gabler’ at the Abbey, and John Doran, who features in Shakespeare’s tragedy at the Gate, are proving
Abbey production of Ibsen’s drama feels stilted
A prequel to his masterful Bailegangaire, Brigit fleshes out a complex family history, but Tom Murphy’s new play is a more vivid portrait of the artist
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
