Dead Centre’s brilliant one-boy show in Dublin, and all the drama of Electric Picnic

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

‘How did we turn ourselves from fallen women into women rising? By telling the truth. It was that simple’

Legal, medical and academic experts speak to Kathy Sheridan

In Conversation: Tonie Walsh and Brian Finnegan, friends with a GCN connection

Radio review: Presenter Matt Cooper has fractious exchanges with anti-abortion campaigner

Dublin City Council says Question of the Eighth event contravened its code of conduct

Tara Flynn’s splendid one-woman show and Stephen Sondheim’s roll-call of political killers

The Abbey Theatre director on reggae, Grayson Perry and ‘Derry Girls’

Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival

The actor, comedian and writer on Frances McDormand, Rome and WeRateDogs

Tara Flynn has a brilliant new play; hide from polarised debates about the Eighth Amendment

Comedian Joanne McNally is ‘80% certain’ that she doesn’t want to have children

Also, a home-grown comedy starring comic Conor O’Toole that provides great escapism

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Party member ‘deeply regrets tone and language’ in some Tweets and apologises

From entering first year to life beyond, four succesful graduates tell their stories of third-level education

The latest new shows from this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival

And all change at the Abbey and Gate – our rigid cultural venues are, at last, mixing it up

The Repeal campaign should be challenging political and economic inequalities