Abbey Theatre

Meeting in Paris with the renowned Marcel Marceau prompted radical change of career course

Jimmy McAleavey’s play, at the Peacock, fictionalises and slightly flattens a moment of unlikely connection

Kevin Barry’s The Cave is the best play I’ve seen on an Irish stage in a very long time, and the c-word is used quite a lot

Theatre: Directed with discipline and clarity by Caitríona McLaughlin, Tiernan, Aaron Monaghan and Judith Roddy slip comfortably into well-fitting skins

The author on writing, living in the Sligo countryside and how digitalisation is warping our sense of reality

Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Luke Murphy tackles Ireland’s obsession with land and the exclusion it leads to

Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement

The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it

A new production of the award-winning drama, directed by its writer, opens in Dublin in August before a West End transfer

Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy

In Krapp’s Last Tape, Richard Dormer and Samuel West will use recordings they made 30 years earlier, in line with Beckett’s vision

Theatre: Sarah Jane Scaife directs an entertaining Abbey production of an endlessly quotable 1930 comedy

Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production

New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin

The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director

Bashar Murkus and Khashabi use the tools of contemporary theatre to portray despair in new ways

Thirty years ago, one event made Austen more popular than almost any other contemporary or close successor

Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies

From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Plus: Derry Girls actress Siobhán McSweeney discontinues Liss Ard case, Denis O’Brien’s house fetches €3.26m and Imma patrons get to go away with the director

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

The likely triple Oscar nominee, star of Conclave, is in fluent form at the national theatre’s TS Eliot Lecture for 2024

The comic actor is playing four parts in the new stage version of Stanley Kubrick’s film, which comes to Ireland in 2025

Theatre: Toni O’Rourke plays Emma with gusto, and Hannah Mamalis is hilarious as Harriet. Despite some narrative overreaching, you’ll probably leave happy

Plus: How Gerard Hutch got his nickname ‘The Monk’, Fair City actor’s house sale, and AI guru Allan Beechinor’s court troubles

This comprehensive and wonderfully written book serves to remind us of how much outstanding Irish theatre has been produced in the past quarter-century

Kate Hamill’s adaptation, starring Toni O’Rourke, explores the psychology of what drives the much-loved protagonist, says director Claire O’Reilly

New accounts show losses rose by 17%

Stars take part in reading of Sam Shepard’s play Ages of the Moon for Irish national theatre’s Love at First Sight season

Winifred Mabel Letts was a groundbreaking female author who wrote across literary forms and genres throughout the first three-quarters of the 20th century. Her work and legacy merit greater attention

Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin

Buscemi and Quinn will read Sam Shepard’s Ages of the Moon at the Irish national theatre in Dublin this weekend

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character

Plus: Dublin New Year’s Eve celebrations to be split in two across traditional city lines; Phil Hogan’s exclusive Brussels club; and the new plan for Terenure Synagogue

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The thorns and snares of lust and envy are forces to be reckoned with in Caitríona McLaughlin’s reimagining

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic

Eighteen things we have learned or should not forget about governance failures, foot-dragging and bungling at the national theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic

Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer

Directors acknowledge ‘acceptance of the past, of gaps in governance, to correct course and make changes’