Anu Productions

New Henrietta Street museum brings Dublin tenements of the past vividly back to life

The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts

By staging her play in a former Magdalene laundry the playwright compels the audience to inhabit the haunted spaces of Irish history

There's more to the picnic than the main stage

The music and arts festival will also feature a closing parade through the Stradbally site on its Sunday night

The theatre company’s latest show explores the legacy of the Manchester bombing

Twenty years ago today, a huge truck bomb tore through the heart of Manchester. Irish theatre company Anu’s new show, which opens today in the city, looks at locals’ memories, their recovery and the aftershocks that still resonate

Anu’s latest performance traces a legacy of violence against civilians, from Moore Street barricades to modern-day terrorism. Will you choose death or glory?

Two site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productions

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

As the three judges meet to consider the productions they’ve seen in the past year, ‘violent agreement’ breaks out

The ‘Glorious Madness’ actor is helping to re-enact the Dublin of 1916 – from an underappreciated angle

Four new routes trace historic themes of Dublin through the ages

Plus: The race for technological university status is hotting up

New anthology explores how playwrights responded to a country - and a theatre - in crisis

The audience and the city had important roles to play in this year’s festival, closing the gap between reality and fiction

With ‘Vardo’, the concluding part of Anu Productions’ thrillingly intimate four-part series, director Louise Lowe brings the extraordinary Monto Cycle full circle. But is that any way to leave it?

Attacked by zombies, snogged by actors – audiences are no longer expected to just sit and watch the play

Programme divides evenly between Irish and international work

The Winners

Thirteen: Protest Part 1 is more concerned with artistic self-importance than the hardship that supposedly informs it

This instalment in Anu Productions’ Thirteen project takes us to a museum, but the exhibition is about to be derailed

Five years on from her ‘mad’ appointment – ‘they hired a 27-year-old amateur’ – Róise Goan, outgoing director of the Dublin Fringe Festival, leaves it in its most mature state yet

George Bernard Shaw did not always fit in with post-independence Ireland and the National Theatre but ‘Major Barbara’ continues a sort of rapprochement

An interactive show to mark the 1913 Lockout is taking place in what was once a grand house but later became a tenement

Creating a cultural quarter is a good idea, but why corral culture into a corner of the city?