To mark first anniversary of Waking The Feminists, Gender equality campaigners add 10 points to debate

This reprisal of Tom Murphy’s meticulous play is the Abbey’s best show in years

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

The playwright’s celebrated play Big Maggie is on this year’s Leaving Cert course. His daughter, a secondary school teacher in Tralee, remembers her father and writes about teaching his work

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

The director’s extraordinary take on Shakespeare’s Henry plays, reworked by Mark O’Rowe and starring Aisling O’Sullivan, Derbhle Crotty and Marty Rea, feels like a sweeping epic as a whole, but moment by moment it feels intimate and detailed

Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong

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

Celebrate with the stars at one of the year’s biggest theatre events

Druid’s new production of Tom Murphy’s extraordinary play about inherited trauma and unfinished stories finds a fresh urgency for its own retelling

Rehearsals for two Murphy plays begin in Galway

Director Garry Hynes and her superb cast careful calibrate the tone of Boucicault’s melodrama

Gardaí try to establish exact cause of incident as they prepare file for coroner