Marie Mullen

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Confirmation of resignation of John Crumlish follows Druid’s withdrawal of flagship production

Loss of planned project with writer Colm Tóibín for Inis Meáin a significant blow

Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas

The singer on her favourite gadget, and why she loves Maeve Higgins and Caravaggio

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

Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare

In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen

A tragedy born of greedy matchmaking, a hesitant love affair barely whispered from the rooftop, and the situation of two work colleagues who wake up together in bomb shelter

New Aosdána Saoi described as the ‘great playwright of the emigrant’

The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts

After 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks back

Former Labour leader receives honorary doctorate at NUI Galway

To mark the first anniversary of the marriage-equality referendum, Charlie Bird asks gay people, and their relatives, how Ireland has changed for them.

Strong sunshine drives numbers and exuberant atmosphere at events around country

Round up of what to expect at festivities around the country on Thursday

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry

Funeral told ‘stories mattered’ to the playwright, author and scriptwriter

Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Private ceremony took place in Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre

The audience and the city had important roles to play in this year’s festival, closing the gap between reality and fiction

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

Druid’s new production of Tom Murphy’s extraordinary play about inherited trauma and unfinished stories finds a fresh urgency for its own retelling

Rehearsals for two Murphy plays begin in Galway

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person

Union is not confident of its intellectual tradition

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