Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant staging
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticness
Denis Conway
Sive review: John B Keane’s dark tale struggles to get past the flaw at its heart
The Gaiety Theatre’s new production makes plain the limitations of a play that barely allows its title character an original thought
Young offenders star Chris Walley wins Olivier award
Cork actor wins award for his work in Martin McDonagh’s The Lieutenant of Inishmore
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
President pays tribute to ‘courageous being’ Tom Murphy
Over 600, including big cross-section from theatre and arts , attend humanist service
Afterplay review: Brian Friel taps into his inner Chekhov
Derbhle Crotty and Denis Conway reach deep for this portrait of middle-aged despair
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
Uplifted by Godot and let down by The Fall
Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages
The Heiress review: youthful desire versus elder tyranny, with a cash prize
The Gate's big Christmas show is an adaptation of a Henry James’s novella. It could be played as a reassuring costume drama – but instead we get something more complex
Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? review: Total war in a theatrical battle like no other
Audiences are likely to be lacerated in the crossfire of this explosive revival
Patrick Pearse on trial: focus on the rebel leader
Three-part TV3 series stars Tom Vaughan-Lawlor, best known for ‘Love/Hate’
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
Dramatic awakenings: the theatre that changed my life
Five nominees for Irish Times theatre awards recall a performance that inspired them and informed their own approaches
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .
After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Fintan O’Toole's 2015: The importance of being inconclusive
I’m not sure we learn anything from the arts – except that we need them more than ever
Review: The Price
This isn’t Arthur Miller’s finest work, but this Gate production doesn’t leave the audience short changed
Long distance warning
Ibsen’s whistle blower brings us worrying news from Norway via Arthur Miller’s America
This other ‘other Eden’
Can Shakespeare’s drama of a dethroned English King be turned into an Irish history lesson?
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