Tempesta review: Stephanie Dufresne and Naoise Dunbar shine in Deirdre Kinahan’s moving play
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: A play of such dimensions could repay a few more than these 75 minutes, especially with so much gorgeous writing to savour
Deirdre Kinahan
The Saviour review: A showcase for Marie Mullen’s room-filling stagecraft
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Deirdre Kinahan’s fine two-hander groans with dramatic commentary on where the nation has been and where it has ended up
An Old Song, Half Forgotten: This play shouldn’t really work but it’s a compelling celebration of a life in theatre
Theatre: Bryan Murray, who has Alzheimer’s, gives a deft, graceful performance as a veteran actor with the disease
Actor Bryan Murray on his Alzheimer’s: ‘There is no short-term memory. It is not the end of the world for me. But – there is a but’
Bryan Murray stars in Deirdre Kinahan’s new play at the Peacock. His role intersects with his own reality as he plays a man with Alzheimer’s
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme of in-person events
Numbers in venues restricted to 50 pending Government decisions on Covid-19 measures
Michael Palin, Mike Leigh and Christy Moore: This week’s unmissable online events
Celine Byrne and Robert Webb also among the virtual attractions over next seven days
Dublin Port makes pitch to become major cultural hub
Plays recorded at the port to showcase future plans to renovate old warehouses
Embargo review: Deirdre Kinahan’s new play is unashamedly humanistic
Dublin Theatre Festival: Unquestionably a celebration of the protest but with layers of nuance
‘This image of a man tarred and feathered, driving a train out of rage, just haunted me’
Deirdre Kinahan on her site-specific play about the 1920 munitions strike
‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint
Abbey Theatre moves online for ‘creative conversation’ about coronavirus
Dear Ireland: 50 writers invited to create 50 one-actor pieces that reflect Covid-19 crisis
Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shock
A passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifying
Theatre highlights: Unmanageable Sisters returns to the stage
Fionn Foley’s solo show Brendan Galileo for Europe onstage ahead of fringe outings
The Scourge and Hue and Cry: The best in theatre this week
One woman reflects on caring for her mother; two long estranged friends deal with grief
Not a shamrock in sight: Building a new vision of Ireland in New York
The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight
‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern Ireland
Rathmines Road review: A compassionate imagining of one woman’s private torment
Dublin Theatre Festival: A secret survivor of sexual assault encounters her rapist years later
Women’s Podcast: No drama with the Unmanageable Sisters
Róisín Ingle meets the 15-woman cast of the Abbey play about sisterhood in Ballymun
Fine, feathered friends and neighbours: The week’s best theatre
Cillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festival
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
Women don’t write national plays? ‘Well they can, and they do’
In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
Best theatre this week: a female perspective on Joyce’s Dubliners
Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War
The Dubliner who died at Auschwitz now centre stage
The story of Ettie Steinberg, the only Irish person killed in the Holocaust, has been reworked into a play that gives her back her humanity and ‘lifts her out of that mess’
Theatre actress Anita Reeves dies aged 67
Friends pay tribute to the actress, best known for her extensive theatre work and film roles including The Butcher Boy and Adam and Paul
Aosdána criticises handling of ‘Star Wars’ filming
Group calls for new protections for heritage sites following Disney’s use of Skellig Michael
Theatre of war: the plays putting the Rising rebels back on the streets
Two site-specific plays around Moore Street and the GPO are among the most daring of the Rising centenary productions
Taking a bow for Irish theatre
‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Video: Cillian Murphy and the Gleesons lead tributes to producer Anne Clarke at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre
Wild Sky review: a rebellion of ideas
Deirdre Kinahan’s new play fits a love triangle over the forces of the Rising. But can it be contained?
Deirdre Kinahan: ‘The Rising is not just a Dublin story’
The playwright’s new production Wild Sky eschews the grand Dublin narrative for a rural perspective on 1916
Anne Clarke to receive Special Tribute Award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
Landmark founder recognised for her outstanding contribution to the industry
Fintan O'Toole: Three arts questions that need answers
The relationships between the Abbey Theatre, the Government and the Arts Council show plenty that’s wrong with arts governance in Ireland
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