The Irish Times

Dublin Dance Festival 2021: The unbearable lightness of being apart

Watching this year’s programme online was frustrating but also brought new intimacies

Tue May 25 2021 - 05:00

Demos at Dublin Dance Festival: Learning new moves in restricted spaces

For Liz Roche, creating a sense of connection in a year of separation was a big challenge

Sat May 15 2021 - 05:00

Paul Weller and a Madness spectacular: This week’s unmissable online events

Dublin Dance Festival and Ross O’Carroll-Kelly are among the other highlights

Thu May 13 2021 - 06:00

Beckett’s Room review: A play with no performers and plenty of magic

Dublin Theatre Festival: Dead Centre’s ambitious new work depicts Beckett’s formative years in Nazi-occupied Paris

Tue Sept 24 2019 - 12:45

Fear and apathy at the end of the world

Dance cast moved to Arctic cabin to experience heightened sense of isolation

Mon Apr 29 2019 - 05:00

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 16:16

After review: An Instagram guide to how to behave before the apocalypse

Dublin Fringe Festival: Liv O’Donoghue stages a documentary about the world’s end

Mon Sept 10 2018 - 12:14

Girl Song review: A slow burn that’s more than the sum of its parts

Emma Martin’s new show seeps into the consciousness long after leaving the theatre

Mon Oct 09 2017 - 09:30

Hamnet is a child frozen in time to devastating effect

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

Mon Oct 02 2017 - 12:10

An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hour

Ollie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’

Tue Sept 26 2017 - 05:00

Olwen Fouéré and the Breton connection: This time it’s personal

A leading light of the Irish avant-garde conjures up her father’s wartime experiences

Fri Feb 03 2017 - 13:00

Putting mental health centre stage at First Fortnight

‘Changing attitudes to mental health in Ireland has grown into a movement’

Tue Dec 29 2015 - 01:00

Exploring the effect of immigration on Irish theatre

‘Staging Intercultural Ireland’ brings together plays and interviews on inward migration

Thu Dec 18 2014 - 06:00

What have the Greeks ever done for us?

Tragic protagonists ought to know they can’t escape their origins or elude their destinies. Is that why companies at the Tiger Dublin Fringe are returning to an ancient source?

Sat Sept 13 2014 - 01:00

Fringe review: The Rest is Action

The Oresteia is reduced to an hour in The Company’s arch and enigmatic new work.

Sun Sept 07 2014 - 16:21