The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival

Amy Molloy, Mary Moulds, Marie Jones and Katie Tumelty star in Dan Gordon’s revival of the Belfast writer’s first play

Theatre: Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins play pop superfans in 1960s Dublin

Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation

The Madonna of Asia, Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s new play, is concerned with the dark side of Hong Kong’s golden age of music and film in 1980s and 1990s

Theatre: Emilie Hetland’s historical play delves into the relationships between Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and Mathilde Jacob

Theatre: Fantastic chaos becomes remarkably disorientating in Blue Raincoat’s outstanding production

Arts officers for Dublin City Council on their bid to turn aspirations for more cultural space into reality

Theatre: Well-considered physical performances as concrete cell becomes allegorical farmland

The intimate Glass Mask Theatre almost shakes under the ambition of this epic thriller directed by Rex Ryan

From a portrait of a declining Judy Gardland to comedy, film adaptations and musicals, there’s much to look forward to in the coming year

We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception

Review: Cathal Cleary directs Brian Friel’s Chekhov adaptation at Smock Alley Theatre in Dublin

The price of creativity is an age-old question. This Aphids coproduction finds some encouraging answers

Susanne Colleary’s play features the most romantic depiction of expedition in any of Blue Raincoat’s plays about explorers