Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
Marie Mullen
The Dead review: James Joyce’s tragicomedy wraps around the audience in a hugely engaging, immensely accomplished evening
Theatre: Marty Rea and Maeve Fitzgerald star as Gabriel and Gretta Conroy in Louise Lowe’s promenade staging of the beloved Dubliners story
The Dead brought to life: how James Joyce’s celebrated short story is being re-created as an immersive experience
Featuring Marty Rea, Maeve Fitzgerald and Marie Mullen, Louise Lowe’s re-creation is taking over Newman House, on St Stephen’s Green in Dublin
‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’
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
The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
National Lottery plans to move its HQ to new location
Funeral for legendary actors’ agent; CRH chief’s home renovations troubles; Phil Hogan joins Irish lobbying register; a financial blow for the IRFU, and a tough job at RTÉ
Audrey or Sorrow review: Marina Carr daringly wraps Gothic comedy around a harrowing core
Theatre: Aisling O’Sullivan, Marie Mullen, Anna Healy, Nick Dunning, Zara Devlin and Patrick Martins star in a bravura production that shouldn’t work but mostly does
The Saviour review: A showcase for Marie Mullen’s room-filling stagecraft
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Deirdre Kinahan’s fine two-hander groans with dramatic commentary on where the nation has been and where it has ended up
DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history
Revival of Lady Augusta Gregory’s neglected works is of vital importance
Marie Mullen to lead Lady Gregory cast as Druid returns to live theatre
DruidGregory begins a 15-venue tour at Coole Park, the writer’s Galway estate, next month
‘God couldn’t have come up with a better pathogen to attack theatre’
Druid was on the up before coronavirus. Now it must reimagine how the show can go on
Sharing wisdom in a time of crisis: 25 ways to live your life to the full
Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, John Creedon and others pass on advice during this uncertain time
Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself
Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?
Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this week
Druid Theatre Company stages Brian Watkins’s new play Epiphany, a serious comedy with Joycean inspiration, Cornwall’s Kneehigh turn The Beggars Opera on its head
‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’
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
This week’s theatre highlights: Sure Look It, Fuck It and The Children
Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate
The Children review: Brightly disarming, deeply unsettling
Seán McGinley, Marie Mullen and Ger Ryan dazzle in Lucy Kirkwood’s play
Seán McGinley: ‘I just wonder why more actors don’t marry each other’
‘The Children’ brings Marie Mullen and her husband on stage together for first time in 27 years
Directing a Martin McDonagh play? It’s the stuff of dreams
The challenge is to honour his writing. When the cast find the rhythm, the work sings
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Galway 2020 loses key board member with resignation of arts festival chief
Confirmation of resignation of John Crumlish follows Druid’s withdrawal of flagship production
Druid Theatre withdraws major production from Galway 2020
Loss of planned project with writer Colm Tóibín for Inis Meáin a significant blow
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Maighread Ní Dhomhnaill: On My Culture Radar
The singer on her favourite gadget, and why she loves Maeve Higgins and Caravaggio
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
‘I loved him’: Tributes to Tom Murphy
The late playwright’s friends, colleagues and admirers remember the man and his work
‘On Raftery’s Hill’ review: a striking and pummelling production
Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare
‘I can be very narrow-minded. I’m constantly fighting with myself to be a decent person’
In Conversation: actors Peter Coonan and Marie Mullen
Love and desire for Valentine’s week: The best theatre this week
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
Tom Murphy receives highest arts honour from President
New Aosdána Saoi described as the ‘great playwright of the emigrant’
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