Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
For the Irish-American comedian, lockdown was preceded by his mother’s death. The impact was profound – but it opened the way to a new life
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developers
Jane Brennan gives a mesmerising emulation of de Valera’s paced, crystal voice
Negotiations behind the foundation of the Irish State are staged at the NCH
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
Belfast soprano on music, acting and her career route to Strauss’s angry, angular role
Theatre, dance and literature events can all be enjoyed online
Government restrictions have limited capacity but some festivals are still on
Conall Morrison’s new play blends 18th-century wit’s biography with his bibliography
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Organisers to honour two dinghy sailors for saving Cork sailor’s life during 29er World Championships in California last summer
Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week
Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events
Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up
The troubling aspects of Bernard Shaw’s dusty play are here hammered at with forced jollity – the result is not weightless fun
When she was approached for the only role in the distressing stage adaptation of A Girl Is a Half-Formed Thing, the actor had refused, saying she couldn’t do ‘another play about rape’ after a string of draining parts. What changed her mind?
David Pearse steals the show amid a cast playing to the gallery with diverting, shameless slapstick
The national academy produced its first trained actors this year; can it become one of the best drama academies in the world?
A varied theatre career – including his new role as Brendan Behan – should save Peter Coonan from being typecast as a crook
The actor is one of the most intense and intelligent performers in Irish theatre; little surprise, then, that a conversation with him starts to sound like a masterclass on acting
As ‘Sive’ strides across the Abbey stage, two actors who formed part of the original cast share their memories of Keane’s early, enduring writing in Listowel
As the Abbey revisits John B Keane’s tragedy of lust and lucre, is it safe to go back into the kitchen?
Colin Murphy’s play of the events leading up to the 2008 bank guarantee contains the tensions of his dual identities as journalist and dramatist, and a new run introduces the coarse voices of the Anglo tapes
Under Conall Morrison’s playful and imaginative direction, a young cast returns some creative disruption to the fable
In the subversive spirit of Jonathan Swift’s ‘Gulliver’s Travels’, four young actors question authority in an interview with their director, Conall Morrison
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
