Citysong review: An Irish family’s entrancing journey across generations
Dylan Coburn Gray’s play for voices builds up a huge picture through small details
Theatre highlights: A bracing documentary on HIV in Ireland
Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays
A Midsummer Night’s Dream laced with glee, invention and a shiver of anxiety
Review: Lynne Parker directs an Irish take on Shakespeare at Kilkenny Arts Festival
It's a kind of magic: electric midsummer night's dreams in Kilkenny Castle
Rough Magic is recharging itself with a new young company and an electrifying take on Shakespeare
Theatre highlights of the week
Tough choices: audiences get to elect their own prince in Pan Pan’s brilliant alternative take on ‘Hamlet’ at the Abbey; while Veronica Dyas, Bertolt Brecht and Maxim Gorky share a Mother in Dyas’s new production ‘My Son My Son’
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
The best theatre shows this week
From the giddy highs to the worrying lows, or a rooftop to a grave, this week's theatre highlights span the course of a lifetime.
Amy Conroy awarded the Phelim Donlon playwright’s bursary and residency
Playwright will use support to develop new play about ‘gaslighting’ and memory
The pick of this week’s theatre
This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them
All the world’s a stage for playwright bursary
There’s still time to apply for the Phelim Donlon Playwright’s Bursary. Last year’s recipient Dylan Coburn Gray has won the Verity Bargate Award in the UK
Dublin Theatre Festival: Bewildering Synge, futuristic Ibsen
Three reviews from the opening weekend of the Dublin Theatre Festival
The Ark: Theatrical treats, and where to find them
The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years
Dublin Fringe reviews: from teenage sex to undertaker humour
The playground is a battleground in Animalia, while Looking Deadly pits a pair of small-town rival undertakers against each other
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