Abbey Theatre reopens for a select few but ‘it feels like 80,000 at Croke Park’
Live audience returns for the first time in 15 months, to see new play by Úna McKevitt
Removed review: Children on the edge, told with integrity and grit
Dublin Theatre Festival: Fionnuala Kennedy’s play stays true to the experiences of young people in care
Prime Cut double bill review: A grim struggle couched in defiant humour
Despite, or perhaps because of, their differences ‘Every Day I wake Up Hopeful’ and ‘East Belfast Boy’ share several attributes
Reveal-ed: How investment helped the arts in the North
A three-day showcase of new work by northern artists highlights the work of a grant from the Paul Hamlyn Foundation
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
Men in pieces: Raw displays of vulnerability
After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health
Patrick Marber: ‘I’ve never had a good idea I didn’t immediately regret’
He’s worked on Alan Partridge, adapted Fifty Shades of Grey, and is evangelical about ‘deliciously evil’ vaping. But when it came to tackling August Strindberg, Patrick Marber says his ‘infidelity might be an act of love’
Educating Rita review: A damaged couple who are living to learn
Willy Russell’s Liverpool drama travels to Belfast and gets a different accent and a calm ferocity
Theatre review: God of Carnage
A biting comedy of manners that spirals into a shaming demonstration of bad manners
Parallel worlds: A Chilean trilogy that could be about the North
A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast
Do people from Northern Ireland have a right to be happy?
A theatre production puts the audience up close to atrocities such as the killing fields of Cambodia, the Holocaust and Bloody Sunday to pose questions about happiness in a ‘horrible world’
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