Mark O’Rowe

A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying

Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers

Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

Lenny Abrahamson to direct Paul Mescal and Daisy Edgar-Jones in 12-part series

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Clare Monnelly pivots through a range of characters in this revival of her artful debut

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

As the international and fringe festivals close, Irish teams reflect on a good month

We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged

Review: Cillian Murphy, Eva Birthistle and Andrew Scott can’t save Mark O’Rowe’s film

Mark O’Rowe’s new drama finds that people are the hardest things to solve

Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week

Osborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’Rowe

Mark O’Rowe’s latest play ‘The Approach’ was triggered by three women in his head

If there really is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other, Andromaque and Hermione have found it

The actor, who could pick up an Oscar nomination for his role in Andy Serkis’s ‘Breathe’, on working with Mel Gibson, feeling Jewish, and leaving Spider-Man behind

From Love/Hate to the Avengers: Infinity War, he does a fine line in onscreen menace

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Culture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventure

Derbhle Crotty and Denis Conway reach deep for this portrait of middle-aged despair

Lack of female playwrights described as ‘disappointment’ after Waking the Feminists

A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre

The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter

Yes to ‘Search Party’; no to ‘The Young Pope’. Yes to clearing the mess; no to overcrowded gyms

2017 production slate includes films starring Pat Shortt, Cillian Murphy and Elle Fanning

The wretchedness of O’Casey’s Dublin remains, says actor and playwright Emmet Kirwan – it’s just that now we pretend to care

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

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director

From her irreverent early work to ‘volunteering her breasts’ for DruidShakespeare and on to her fresh take on O’Casey’s Juno, Crotty has never been one for convention

Mark O’Rowe’s stark production treats the the play almost as a documentary and cleverly casts against type

Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

As the three judges meet to consider the productions they’ve seen in the past year, ‘violent agreement’ breaks out

Despite complaints about collaborative art, there have been great examples this year

From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives