Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit
Cork Midsummer Festival 2025: Playing the same break-up scene on a loop, with 100 different men, the actor is up for anything, alive to each variation
The Cork actor, who has returned to live in Ireland after 30 years, on ageing, working with Cillian Murphy, and her upcoming role in a 24-hour play with 100 unknown men
What audiences are told before gigs at St James’ Church says it all: turn off your phone and just be in the moment
Tim Mielant’s memorable film is quietly emblematic of a changing Ireland
The Oscar winner reunites with Eileen Walsh, his Disco Pigs co-star, for Small Things Like These. For young Irish abroad, was its Ireland worth returning to?
The film adaptation of Claire Keegan’s novella comes to Irish cinemas this November
The closure of Corcadorca theatre company, in 2022, left a hole that the city’s remaining theatre community is battling to fill
The Oscars 2024 front-runner values his family’s ‘normal, lovely life’ in Ireland – especially as the glare of awards season has been ‘such a baptism of fire’
Theatre: War may be the backdrop, but the real territory at stake is the marriage bed
Eileen Walsh, a night supervisor, claims she was unfairly selected for redundancy
The centre’s new home is on the site of an old tyre shop in Hell’s Kitchen
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Film review: Tom Vaughan-Lawlor’s towering performance lifts the film above the misery
Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Dublin Will Show You How is a grim portrait of despair; Beginning is a tale of connecting
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea give exquisite performances in David Eldridge’s play
David Eldridge investigates matters of the heart in Beginning at The Gate Theatre
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year
Did you sleep with more than two women during our break-up, she asks. ‘In a good week, yeah,” he replies
Tipperary woman Kerry Condon's first lead role, in Sharon Horgan’s Women on the Verge, brought new pressures
Review: Thommo just about rescues this silly adaptation of Ian McEwan’s novel
Stephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returns
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
The 1983 prison break gets a responsible treatment but it's most effective as a prison break yarn
Eileen Walsh given less than a fortnight to quit the house she has lived in for 35 years
Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison
Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill
Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything
The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?
Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre
It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings
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
