Medicine: Domhnall Gleeson is a force to be reckoned with. This performance cuts you to the bone
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
Galway International Arts Festival: Like a phoenix from the flames
Despite Covid-19, key elements from the summer line-up are ready for an autumn showing
Much Ado about Nothing review: Booze, subversion and anxiety
Rough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holiday
The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhem
Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X
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
UK braves US ire by pressing ahead with tax on tech companies
Move comes hours after Washington threatened sanctions against France for similar levy
Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationship
Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition
Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre
Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism
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’
‘The Good Father’ and ‘Minding Frankie’: this week’s best theatre
An unlikely couple face up to parenthood, and Maeve Binchy’s evergreen story
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Angela’s Ashes: The Musical – Are we ready to look back on hard times and smile?
The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats
Minding Frankie: Maeve Binchy’s bittersweet novel comes to the stage
Shay Linehan’s adaptation yanks hard on the heartstrings throughout its benign performance
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
James Joyce brought to life with the music of The Dead
The last story in The Dubliners is already full of song, but opera proved to be a great way of bringing out the ‘internal arias’ in characters’ heads
Culture Shock: Garry Hynes’s astonishing, exhilarating ‘DruidShakespeare’
The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed
Review: Crude Mechanicals
A play within a play is without its cast. Can a stage manager save the day?
Review: Moll
This butter-wouldn’t-melt production is a place of hapless priests and pushy housekeepers in a changeless world
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