Abbey Theatre announces centenary Plough and the Stars production for 2026
New plays by Marina Carr, Frank McGuinness and Una McKevitt to also feature in forthcoming season
Marina Carr
The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
I’m sorry if reading Shakespeare is getting in the way of your kayaking lessons
What kind of 'experience' do we expect our students of English literature to have if not reading Shakespeare?
Marina Carr and Caitríona McLaughlin on The Boy: ‘We’re constantly being told what to do, what to think. We’ll turn into zombies’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays
‘I always had an affinity with Wolfe Tone. Maybe because I was told I wasn’t Irish’
Kwaku Fortune’s new play, The Black Wolfe Tone, has just opened in New York. It’s a very personal story for the actor and writer
Tommy Tiernan to star in new Kevin Barry play as part of Abbey programme
New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin
The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
Irish Theatre in the Twenty-First Century: Development and diversity – Deserving of a wide readership
This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century
The Map of Argentina review: Sexual desire and forbidden passion in a drama that clutches you to its chest
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Marina Carr’s play features Maeve Fitzgerald as married mother Deb, who has fallen madly in love with another man
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Did Irish author Anne Dunlop invent chick lit in the early 1990s?
Exploring women’s literature and the formation of identity leads us from AS Byatt and Anne Dunlop to Madonna and Judith Butler
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 blackboard is like looking at charts in a war room’: Behind the scenes at the Abbey to watch Marina Carr’s new play take shape
Turning a script into a finished show is hugely complex. We spend a day at the National Theatre to see Audrey or Sorrow come together
Girl on an Altar: Eileen Walsh and David Walmsley bring a muscular energy to Marina Carr’s searing new play
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Marina Carr: ‘We are not sacrificing children on altars, but we are still sacrificing children, make no mistake’
From works such as By the Bog of Cats to the playwright’s most recent work, Girl on an Altar, familiar intimate questions are played out on an epic scale
Old Ghosts: A Joycean chamber opera in an evocative setting
Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue
Derbhle Crotty: ‘Waking The Feminists is having lasting consequence’
Actor on her electric pandemic projects and returning to Portia Coughlan after 25 years
The desert has made an imprint on the landscape of my soul
I have met inspiring Arab women through my work says Padraig Downey, an Irish theatre maker in Dubai
Abbey Theatre box office revenues decline 82% due to Covid-19
Sharp drop in 2020 revenues followed theatre postponing or cancelling 23 productions
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme of in-person events
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
Tom Hickey obituary: An actor with a vocation for his craft
‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’
Fintan O’Toole: The newly visible dads, and an ordinary and wonderful kind of love
Fatherhood is a kind of makey-up thing, but it has come into its own in lockdown
Galway 2020 opening ceremony cancelled due to weather warnings
Year as European Capital of Culture had been due to start with fire spectacle
Ruth Negga: Playing Hamlet nearly killed me
She first played Shakespeare’s prince in Dublin. Now she’s reprising the role in New York
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
Touring helps Abbey Theatre boost box office receipts by 28%
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
Hecuba review: Perspective and psychology brought to an ancient tale
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate
Dublin Theatre Festival gets its history on
Whether it’s looking back or casting forward, this year’s event is rooted firmly in the now
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Event of the Week: Cork Midsummer Festival
Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June
Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019
New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes
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