Bram Stoker, the corncrake and ‘folklore as resistance’: Making Macnas’s Halloween parade
Louise Lowe and Owen Boss of Anu are swapping intimate immersive theatre for this year’s Macnas parade, An Truen: The Summoning of the Lost
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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
Is culture’s digital phase starting to fade or will online events continue?
For Cian O’Brien, director of Project Arts Centre, the past year has provided room to rethink approaches and reimagine spaces, though livestreaming has had its challenges
Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
The Party To End All Parties is an interactive piece created against the backdrop of Covid-19
Faultline review: Immersive journey through a societal upheaval
Dublin Theatre Festival: This absorbing new work remembers a faultline in the early days of Irish gay rights
Getting Scrapefoot, an immersive Goldilocks art installation, just right
When theatre designer Owen Boss began bringing his children to work, it became a test run for a new project at The Ark
The two best theatre shows on this week
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
The week’s best plays: Playboy of the Western World and Faultline
Dublin Theatre Festival productions examine Irish theatre and history from new angles
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent history
Anú’s latest show, which takes place in a clinical space, is impressive but not intimate
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best shows
Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks
The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars
Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison
On Corporation Street review: Anu explores what it takes to rebuild shattered city
The theatre company’s latest show explores the legacy of the Manchester bombing
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