Enda Walsh

The best art shows to catch this weekend

The best art shows to catch this weekend

From Enda Walsh’s ‘Bathroom’ to Voyager’s deep space odyssey, there’s plenty to ponder

By Gemma TiptonThu Jul 20 2017 - 07:00

Galway arts festival marks 40th opening, while Fringe celebrates sixth year

Galway arts festival marks 40th opening, while Fringe celebrates sixth year

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

By Lorna SigginsSun Jul 16 2017 - 20:54

Irish opera picking up international awards as Arts Council decision imminent

Irish opera picking up international awards as Arts Council decision imminent

Smart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplier

By Michael DervanWed Jun 07 2017 - 05:00

What’s hot this week: city breaks and bluebells

What’s hot this week: city breaks and bluebells

What’s not: the myriad of moths and seriously underweight high street mannequins

Fri May 05 2017 - 12:00

Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival

Brian Wilson and two major operas for Galway Arts Festival

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Tue May 02 2017 - 10:12

‘We cannot have an endless diet of Swan Lakes’

‘We cannot have an endless diet of Swan Lakes’

Ballet Ireland changes direction, after 20 years in business

By Christie SeaverTue Apr 18 2017 - 05:00

Enda Walsh, on the "oddity" of working with "adorable" David Bowie

Enda Walsh, on the "oddity" of working with "adorable" David Bowie

Playwright also speaks to Róisín Meets podcast about Roddy Doyle, OCD and sadness of Brexit

By Jennifer RyanFri Mar 17 2017 - 09:15

Ireland.ie website showcasing Irish creativity launched

Ireland.ie website showcasing Irish creativity launched

Kenny highlights initiative on Irish culture while in Washington DC for St Patrick’s Day visit

By Hugh LinehanWed Mar 15 2017 - 18:43

In the age of surveillance, what do any of us have left to hide?

In the age of surveillance, what do any of us have left to hide?

To be young now is to be hounded for personal data in exchange for trinkets and services

By Peter CrawleyFri Feb 17 2017 - 13:31

The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars

The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars

Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison

By Mary LelandTue Feb 14 2017 - 15:35

What will Brexit mean for Irish arts and culture?

What will Brexit mean for Irish arts and culture?

The UK is leaving the EU, but it will remain our closest cultural partner into the future

By Hugh LinehanFri Feb 10 2017 - 17:40

Voting closes at midnight in the Audience Choice Theatre Award

Voting closes at midnight in the Audience Choice Theatre Award

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards has one public vote category. And now is your last chance to have your say

By Laurence MackinWed Feb 01 2017 - 14:00

Kevin Barry: ‘I love reading my work. I’m 98% ham’

Kevin Barry: ‘I love reading my work. I’m 98% ham’

You can’t keep the darkly comic writer from the theatre – hardly surprising for a ‘frustrated actor’. He talks about his play Autumn Royal

By Peter CrawleyTue Jan 17 2017 - 05:00

Minister announces €2 million for Irish arts in the US

Minister announces €2 million for Irish arts in the US

Heather Humphreys says €1m will go towards new Irish Arts Centre in Manhattan

By Orla O'SullivanFri Jan 13 2017 - 14:00

Album of the Week: Lazarus - original cast recording to the musical by David Bowie and Enda Walsh

Album of the Week: Lazarus - original cast recording to the musical by David Bowie and Enda Walsh

Featuring a live take of the artist's off-Broadway musical, recorded by the cast just hours after Bowie died, as well three previously-unheard studio recordings from the singer's final album, Blackstar

By Tony Clayton-LeaFri Oct 21 2016 - 07:12

Martin McDonagh: A history of violence

Martin McDonagh: A history of violence

After 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks back

By Peter CrawleySat Sept 17 2016 - 03:00

Estate seeks to bring Roald Dahl’s work to new generations

Estate seeks to bring Roald Dahl’s work to new generations

Century on from author’s birth, group’s goal is to make every child in the world a fan

By Michael PaulsonTue Sept 13 2016 - 16:55

Pieces of me: Ann Mulrooney, director of the Visual Arts Centre in Carlow

Pieces of me: Ann Mulrooney, director of the Visual Arts Centre in Carlow

Ann Mulrooney’s penchant for understatement and natural materials was brought to bear when she renovated a coach house, working with its idiosyncrasies

By Gemma TiptonSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:45

Arlington [a love story] review: Another room, another trap

Arlington [a love story] review: Another room, another trap

Enda Walsh’s despairing and dystopian work is a play woven from grief

By Peter CrawleyTue Jul 12 2016 - 18:04

‘It’s as if Saoirse Ronan was born in the theatre’ - Ivo van Hove

‘It’s as if Saoirse Ronan was born in the theatre’ - Ivo van Hove

Ahead of a visit to Galway, the Belgian director reveals his vision for theatre, his admiration for Ronan and why he insists that actors tell him they love him

By Peter CrawleyTue Jul 12 2016 - 06:00

Giant insects take to Galway streets for arts festival opening

Giant insects take to Galway streets for arts festival opening

Arts minister approves additional funding for city’s arthouse cinema

By Lorna SigginsMon Jul 11 2016 - 01:00

Enda Walsh: Brexit result reflects British ‘inferiority complex’

Enda Walsh: Brexit result reflects British ‘inferiority complex’

Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’

By Lorna SigginsFri Jul 08 2016 - 21:28

Hugh O’Conor: from My Left Foot to working with Enda Walsh

Hugh O’Conor: from My Left Foot to working with Enda Walsh

The actor talks about observing and to being observed, child acting and his role in Enda Walsh’s new play

By Peter CrawleyTue Jul 05 2016 - 05:00

Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway

Elvis Costello, Enda Walsh and Hughie O’Donoghue announced for Galway

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

By Laurence MackinMon May 23 2016 - 18:00

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’

Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’

Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything

By Peter CrawleyFri Apr 29 2016 - 14:00

Hearts of darkness: Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement in the Congo

Hearts of darkness: Joseph Conrad and Roger Casement in the Congo

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

By Ian MaleneyTue Mar 29 2016 - 07:00

Taking a bow for Irish theatre

Taking a bow for Irish theatre

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

By Deirdre FalveySat Mar 12 2016 - 05:00

Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

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

By Laurence MackinWed Mar 09 2016 - 15:00

Druid steals show at ‘Irish Times’ Theatre Awards

Druid steals show at ‘Irish Times’ Theatre Awards

‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director

By Peter CrawleySun Mar 06 2016 - 21:46

Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry

By Laurence MackinFri Jan 22 2016 - 07:00

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .

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

Sat Jan 16 2016 - 14:00

How we picked the shortlist for the ‘Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards 2015

How we picked the shortlist for the ‘Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards 2015

As the three judges meet to consider the productions they’ve seen in the past year, ‘violent agreement’ breaks out

By Peter CrawleySat Jan 16 2016 - 05:00

Domhnall Gleeson: The Force is strong in this one

Domhnall Gleeson: The Force is strong in this one

With roles in ‘Frank’, ‘Ex Machina’ and ‘Star Wars: The Force Awakens’, and a star turn in ‘The Revenant’, Gleeson’s career has gone stellar

By Donald ClarkeFri Jan 15 2016 - 14:00

David Bowie took risks, was a beacon for non-conformers

David Bowie took risks, was a beacon for non-conformers

His music was an portal escape, a sense that with a lightening flash we could be heroes

By Una MullallyMon Jan 11 2016 - 11:25

Peter Crawley’s 2015: Gender and history get a stunning makeover

Peter Crawley’s 2015: Gender and history get a stunning makeover

From DruidShakespeare to Waking the Feminists, 2015 was all about changing perspectives

By Peter CrawleySat Dec 19 2015 - 05:00

Gentrification review: We’re forever in Enda Walsh’s debt

Gentrification review: We’re forever in Enda Walsh’s debt

Walsh’s new play is designed in conjunction with Ireland’s current miasma of debt, eviction and repossession

By Mary LelandTue Nov 17 2015 - 17:36

Conor McPherson: ‘Plays are stupid. You are supposed to feel them in your bones’

Conor McPherson: ‘Plays are stupid. You are supposed to feel them in your bones’

Conor McPherson’s talent as a playwright was precocious, but writing for a living was never part of the master plan

By Sara KeatingTue Sept 22 2015 - 06:00

10 things we learned from this year’s Edinburgh extravaganza

10 things we learned from this year’s Edinburgh extravaganza

As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky

By Peter CrawleySat Aug 15 2015 - 05:50

The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death

The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death

Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival

By Peter CrawleyMon Aug 10 2015 - 18:30

Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire

Literary listings: Irish head for Edinburgh, and Library Voices at Dun Laoghaire

Fighting Words seeks volunteers, Nuala Ní Chonchúir and Paula McGrath launch new novels, and celebrities and authors read at Dubray Books

By Sarah GilmartinTue Aug 04 2015 - 13:10

Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’

Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

By Michael DervanTue Aug 04 2015 - 05:00

Heavyweights and new voices brand Dublin Theatre Festival

The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

By Laurence MackinWed Jul 22 2015 - 14:01

‘Once’ brings it all back home | Musical review

‘Once’ brings it all back home | Musical review

The hit stage version of the cult film takes on new life in the city where it is set

By Mick HeaneyWed Jul 15 2015 - 16:25

Select: fall in love with some Galway grub

Select: fall in love with some Galway grub

Galway International Arts Festival rolls into the City of the Tribes this weekend, and in among the visual arts, theatre and music there's some great food to be found

By Rachel CollinsThu Jul 09 2015 - 13:00

Galway International Arts Festival programme revealed

Galway International Arts Festival programme revealed

Biggest talking point likely to be Patricia Piccinini’s giant Sky Whale, which created quite a stir when it appeared in Melbourne in 2013

By Arminta WallaceWed May 27 2015 - 21:41

Culture Shock: Stephen Rea on his belief in the cleansing power of theatre

Culture Shock: Stephen Rea on his belief in the cleansing power of theatre

An edited extract of the award-winning actor’s acceptance speech at the ‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards

By Stephen ReaSat Apr 04 2015 - 00:00

‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum

‘Everybody’s queer’: life on the sexuality spectrum

Our sexuality constantly changes, says Emer O’Toole, whose book describes her gender-bending coming of age in Galway

By Kate HolmquistMon Mar 30 2015 - 06:00

Niall Doyle is an intriguing choice for the Arts Council’s head of music

Niall Doyle is an intriguing choice for the Arts Council’s head of music

Doyle comes to the job as someone who knows how bruising the council can be to clients

By Michael DervanWed Mar 25 2015 - 10:00

Stephen Rea recognised for outstanding contribution

Stephen Rea recognised for outstanding contribution

The best in theatre of past year are honoured at ‘Irish Times’ award show

By Erin McGuireMon Feb 23 2015 - 12:00

Stephen Rea to receive Irish Times Special Tribute Award

Stephen Rea to receive Irish Times Special Tribute Award

Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

By Laurence MackinTue Feb 17 2015 - 13:30

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