The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
More than a decade after his last appearance, the actor has found a way to talk about what happened - and from a startling place
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
Last year the former Irish Times columnist’s work on her new play, for Rough Magic and the Abbey, was interrupted by a double cancer diagnosis
The theatre company, now more than 100 productions into its creative life, still holds firm to the artistic outlook it adopted back in 1984
For Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre production
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
‘Bringing people back together is really important,’ says director Olga Barry
Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Fergal McElherron explores family histories, and life on the margins in his new play
These Stupid Things at Smock Alley Theatre and Cleft at O’Donoghue Theatre are his week’s highlights
Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap
Festival unveils programme for this year’s festival, which runs from August 8th to 18th
Musicians from RIAM will play these specially selected, deeply personal pieces
The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions
The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival
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
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