Rough Magic’s high-voltage staging of A Midsummer Night’s Dream addresses climate change, while Jim Cartwright’s ‘Two’ is more than the sum of its parts

Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare

Irish theatre came out blazing this week, proving that gender equality is ‘not hard to do, if you want to’

Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service

Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city

Directors of Abbey and Gate and Druid among those committed to challenging ‘unacceptable behaviour’

There’s no other play quite like Rough Magic’s Melt right now

New research commissioned by Waking The Feminists shows theatre companies with biggest state subsidy have worst gender record

Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style

Productions of Stewart Parker plays have been among the biggest successes of his niece Lynne Parker’s career. For her latest tilt at Northern Star, she decided to ‘Brecht it a bit’

This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming

The women who went to Belfast in May 1971 to bring back illegal ‘French Letters’ are looking forward to seeing themselves on stage

Hilary Fannin’s play takes in a decade of loves won and lost and our economic boom and bust

Are all the characters in Hilary Fannin’s new play toxically self-involved or has our national plummet from prosperity left everybody isolated?

Man, I loved a bit of fervour. Hand on heart, I’d like to acknowledge the energy that the nuns put into the telling of the great, mad story of their exotic world

Catherine Sheerin-Donnelly: April 29th, 1948 - October 8th, 2014

It’s not unusual to find our best theatrical talent working in children’s theatre, and given the calibre of the work there’s little wonder why

The singers give it all their worth in this production; spreading it throughout the venue proves attractive and frustrating

Witnessing the highly pressurised construction of the immersive city of Mahagonny for six performances of Brecht’s opera is impressive – it is amazing what you can achieve without planning permission

A hugely stimulating interpretation of Janacek’s opera, prodigiously imagined by an army of young creative minds

A guide to events from the Heineken Cup rugby match to the Shannonside Winter Music Festival

Cork had the first production of 2014, and features in two successful Arts Council funding applications

Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company have been awarded €230,000 from Sky Arts to stage a Marxist opera. Are Brecht and Weill camera-ready, and what’s in it for Sky?

Theatre companies to stage a Brecht and Weill play in large-scale immersive production

Shakespeare’s early ‘screwball’ comedy, ‘The Taming of the Shrew’, is one of his most popular and controversial – so can an all-female cast take the edge of its sexism