Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast members

The Belgian songwriter’s caustic social criticism is at the heart of the Gate Theatre production

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

Bank holiday weekend food festival has big plans for its 10th birthday celebrations this week

Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous

Company selects three ‘bleak but beautiful’ locations to showcase Samuel Beckett’s text

Rough Magic’s production of Stewart Parker’s play about the 1798 rebellion enriches the self-consciousness of the dramatic style

Productions of Stewart Parker plays have been among the biggest successes of his niece Lynne Parker’s career. For her latest tilt at Northern Star, she decided to ‘Brecht it a bit’

This week on Róisín Meets…Ross O’Carroll-Kelly creator on his futuristic play

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

As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service

Bush Moukarzel and Ben Kidd slowly strip away the trappings of form and character from Chekhov’s first work, and take a wrecking ball of theatrical convention

The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed

Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong

Lisa Lambe: ‘I’m so proud of him. He’s the bee’s knees’

David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick

The new Ross O’Carroll-Kelly play provides an evening of good, not-so-clean fun and unapologetically slapstick humour

In the third Ross play, his daughter arrives home with a 17-year-old version of him. And the key lesson from the first two plays? Writing comedy for the stage is very different to writing comedy for the page

Director Garry Hynes and her superb cast careful calibrate the tone of Boucicault’s melodrama

Baltinglass’s hopes are shattered by two-goal salvo in a hectic finale