Lynne Parker

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2019: Rough Magic does Shakespeare, Nathalie Stutzmann does Bach

Festival unveils programme for this year’s festival, which runs from August 8th to 18th

Director’s Choice: Theatre directors pick the soundtracks of their lives

Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces

After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland

The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions

Owen Roe: 'How can you study Beckett and not know anything about Laurel and Hardy?'

The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety

Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival

Shakespeare’s summer sensation: This week’s theatre highlights

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

It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny Castle

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

Yes we did: Irish theatre’s gender-equality revolution

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

President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy

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

‘Shakespeare is for life, not just for the Leaving Cert’

Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city

Theatre directors condemn sexual harassment and abuse of power

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

Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the world

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

Which Irish theatre companies have the worst record regarding women?

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

Northern Star review: Northern Star review: A riff on nationalism with profound resonances

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

Parker on Parker: ‘Stewart’s work has been horrendously ignored’

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’

DTF review | The Train: A theatrical manifesto, exuberantly played for laughs

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