Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
Claudia Carroll: My wish for 2021? That bums end up on actual seats in an actual theatre
To have one cancelled show may be regarded as a misfortune; to have four looks like carelessness
Drama at Inish review: A fun if frictionless experience
Lennox Robinson’s theatrical satire is comically enhanced in the Abbey’s slapstick-accentuated Christmas production
Theatre highlights: Unmanageable Sisters returns to the stage
Fionn Foley’s solo show Brendan Galileo for Europe onstage ahead of fringe outings
The Mai review: Passionate performances in an unfocused production
Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead
Stephen Swift: affection and love flow for an actor and a gentleman
Dublin stage actor who has died aged 44 remembered as ‘an outstanding example of how to live’
The Unmanageable Sisters review: A production that doesn’t quite stick
It’s hard to see what ground Deirdre Kinahan’s new Irish version of Michel Tremblay’s play can break
Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
The Heiress review: youthful desire versus elder tyranny, with a cash prize
The Gate's big Christmas show is an adaptation of a Henry James’s novella. It could be played as a reassuring costume drama – but instead we get something more complex
The Importance of Being Earnest review: Wilde wins again
As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service
By the Bog of Cats review: a warped family drama
Marina Carr’s bitter stretch of the Irish midlands is a sunken place full of ghosts and vengeance – will anyone make it out alive?
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