Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individuals
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developers
Janet Moran
Madonna played this preyed-on assistant on Broadway. Now a man is stepping into her shoes
Speed-the-Plow: Janet Moran flips the sexes in a new production of David Mamet’s play about casting-couch coercions
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Rathmines Road review: A compassionate imagining of one woman’s private torment
Dublin Theatre Festival: A secret survivor of sexual assault encounters her rapist years later
A Holy Show review: Giddy nostalgia, at comedy-deflating length
Dublin Fringe Festival: Janet Moran’s show is based on the Aer Lingus hijacking of 1981
Ruth McGowan: making Dublin Fringe Festival more party than arty
The event’s new artistic director has some questions for the city. Is it listening?
Dublin Fringe Festival: What should I see this year?
The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking
Dublin Fringe: festival launches a stylish programme
Capital city hosts 80 productions, from club culture and female sexuality to comedy and new theatre
Two theatre shows to see this week
Ulysses in the Abbey; Fred and Alice in the Viking Theatre, Clontarf
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment
The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
The Plough and the Stars review: The poverty of our era put centre stage
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?
Culture shock: Is it really so hard to write about women?
From the male gaze to the female voice, it’s time to make a change
Review: Spinning
Deirdre Kinahan captures the claustrophobia of small town society and family life in a play that transcends its bleak premise
Behind the curtain: the dark arts of dramaturgy
Help the writer deliver the best play possible. Get the basics right early. Do very little for a successful show, then claim the credit. Welcome to the tricks of the dramaturg’s trade
Desire Under the Elms
Nineteenth-century New England comes closer to home in Corn Exchange’s austerely beautiful production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy
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Stardust
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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