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DruidGregory at Coole Park marks Druid’s return with a Galway tour until October 17th. Coronavirus leaves all art hanging in the balance. Photograph: Matthew Thompson
There is a randomness to the way Covid-19 affects some places more than others

In all the talk about Covid-19, we may not have given as much consideration as we should to the role played by pure, dumb luck. Yes, it’s essential we(...)

People celebrating the independence of Ireland on O’Connell bridge before midnight on Easter Sunday, 1949. Photograph: Larry Burrows/The LIFE Picture Collection via Getty Images
Experience O’Connell Bridge: A Focal point for revolution and change
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  • September 19, 2020, 05:00

For two years, the people at theatre company ANU Productions have had a photograph sitting on their desks. The black-and-white image was taken on Apri(...)

Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White says a business model for digital theatre has emerged during lockdown. Photograph: Dave Meehan
‘A city like Dublin needs to have life, and we want to be part of it’

It is five months since Willie White, director of  the Dublin Theatre Festival, sat in a theatre. The show was Farm Fatale, a dystopian performan(...)

The Examination: at the Project Arts Centre in Dublin as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival
Crime and punishment and gorilla suits: this week’s theatre highlight

THE EXAMINATION Project Arts Centre, Dublin. Preview Sep 6 6.15pm Opens Sep 7-11 &14 9pm (Thurs additional performance 6.15pm) fringefest.com The(...)

District 8 nightclub at the Tivoli theatre in Dublin. The theatre has closed after 85 years and is being redeveloped as an aparthotel
No place left to show: How Dublin is turning into a cultural ghost town

How do you point out what isn’t there any more? When Willie White, the director of the Dublin Theatre Festival, counts off the theatre spaces that no(...)

The “Behind the Scenes” acrobat show, which ran in Eyre Square, Galway, during the city’s international arts festival this summer. Photograph: Andrew Downes/ Xposure
The Irish Times view on Ireland’s creative spaces: the hollowing out of urban life

"The theatres, the people running club nights, the people running markets, anything that’s independent, under the radar, not necessarily commercial, i(...)

Dublin Theatre Festival: Willie White, surrounded by actors, at the launch of the 2018 event. Photograph: Cyril Byrne
Dublin Theatre Festival asks audiences to choose a play for it to stage
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  • April 8, 2019, 10:00

Dublin Theatre Festival wants its audiences to get involved behind the scenes by choosing a play for this year’s event. The festival is looking for p(...)

The Examination: Willie White in Brokentalkers’ politically sly and artfully provocative piece
The Examination review: No easy escapes in Brokentalkers’ sly, provocative play

THE EXAMINATION Project Arts Centre, Dublin ★★★★☆ The latest work from the seriously irreverent contemporary theatre company Brokentalkers begins wit(...)

Willie White, director of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times
Who is Dublin for? Who do we want to share it with?

Willie White is moving beyond it. It isn’t that the artistic director of the Dublin Theatre Festival (DTF) is reluctant to discuss this year’s setbac(...)

In 2017, the festival presented 32 productions, including 21 Irish and 11 international projects. Of the Irish productions 12 were world premieres, a fact that underlines “the festival’s strategic role in supporting Irish theatre artists to create, present and promote new work”, the directors said in their report.
Ticket sales recover for Dublin Theatre Festival

The Dublin Theatre Festival moved back into the black last year as ticket sales recovered and its Arts Council funding increased by 5 per cent, its la(...)

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