The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions

Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape

In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size

Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens

They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny

Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door

If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation

Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?

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

Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture

Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective

In this empathetic and slippery production, as his confusion grows, so does ours

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances

As Casement faced trial for treason in 1916, Shaw wrote a speech that he was convinced could turn the trial into a national drama, and save Casement from the scaffold

The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home

UCD and Abbey Theatre host free lecture series on the Bard

Tomorrow, this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards will be presented. The nominees for best actor and best actress talk about the roles they play

Can an elderly Romeo and Juliet ever escape their destiny?

Announcing the ’Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards shortlist for 2013. Terrible financial circumstances did not limit the diversity of productions, from knockout operas to one-man shows

With work of such consistent quality, it is difficult to settle on a single masterpiece: Friel has given us some incredible memories

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person