Róisín Ingle: Facing my fears without alcohol has been a revelation
It gave me clarity of mind, it gave me hope and strength, and it’s a gift that keeps on giving
Sonya Kelly
Theatremaker
Poor, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a show destined to keep returning and keep selling out
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Katriona O’Sullivan’s memoir becomes a crowd-pleasing play starring Aisling O’Mara and Hollie Lawlor
Katriona O’Sullivan on bringing Poor to the stage: ‘I’ve cried so many times, because it’s my life. It’s difficult to watch’
Poor is about to open at the Gate. Its author and playwright Sonya Kelly talk about adapting O’Sullivan’s bestselling memoir for the theatre
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
It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience
Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?
Audiences need to learn new skills to consume art online
I have discovered the joys, frustrations and etiquette of being a spectator alone in my home
Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath
Theatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives forever
‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture
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
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
After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland
The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions
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 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the 2019 winners are . . .
Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards
Moving the furniture around: This week’s theatre highlights
Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call
Sonya Kelly: On My Culture Radar
Playwright Sonya Kelly on her hero Tig Notaro and French series Call My Agent
2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Not a shamrock in sight: Building a new vision of Ireland in New York
The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Home Theatre (Ireland) review: An innovation with life-changing potential
Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch
Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring start
Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon
Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly
The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture
The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival starts
David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight
Three theatre shows to catch in Ireland this week
Druid premieres two original works while a new company take their maiden voyage with Foyle’s Punt
Get ready for the Galway International Arts Festival
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
The psychodramas unfurling everyday day in Ikea
‘Furniture’, Sonya Kelly’s new play for Druid, is a wickedly smart relationship comedy
An actor and a gentleman, with a gift for comedy and living well
Obituary: Stephen Swift was ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
Should LGBTQ identity be proud to be mainstream?
As Dublin Pride kicks off, an exhibition looks at those still hiding in plain sight
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
Argos goes green . . . but for a house in the garden, try a big red affair
Home Front: short of space at home but don’t want to move? A garden house is an increasingly popular option
Paul Muldoon’s ‘Incantata’ on stage at Galway International Arts Festival
Tom Murphy remembered as festival gears up for Galway 2020
‘It surprised me how much I fell in love with the Irish way’
Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival
Canadian Kris Nelson to leave the Dublin Fringe Festival for London's Lift
Dublin festival is now seeking a new artistic director and a new general manager
Culture Shock: what sings in one place can sink in another
‘Australia may be the flowers, but Ireland is the soil’
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