Shona McCarthy, the Irish woman running the world’s biggest arts festival, is heading home: ‘I’m tired. You feel it to your bones’
After 35 years of nonstop work, this ardent advocate for the arts is about to catch her breath
Fishamble
Theatre company
Fishamble theatre company’s stolen award returned after successful campaign to locate it
Company’s prized Olivier award was stolen at the weekend during a break-in atDublin office
Fishamble theatre company appeals for return of stolen Olivier award
Award stolen during break-in at Dublin premises over weekend
Breaking: Two characters, four actors and a rotating series of scenes, emotions and meanings
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In Amy Kidd’s play, actors of different genders, races, backgrounds and accents portray the same unhappy couple
In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen McCartney nicely captures the emotional mess of sympathy, irritation and pain in this play by Joanne Ryan
King review: Incredibly compelling narrative but something isn’t quite right
Theatre: Pat Kinevane’s talent as a writer and performer are indisputable but it is time to consider a new format
The stage is (almost) set: Theatre coming our way in 2023
Including Frigid, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Twelfth Night, Reggie’s Guide to Social Climbing and Hangmen
The Treaty negotiations: a story of trust forged and trust broken
Did Lloyd George mesmerise Collins, or did Collins silently acquiesce to his pressure tactics?
‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’
A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint
‘I hate intervals. The overheated hell of the bar. The aimless milling about’
The intermission - or interval to you and me - is a threatened species in theatre and an extinct one in cinema
Pat Kinevane: On My Culture Radar
Actor on his favourite New Zealand city, his appreciation of Niall Buggy and dancing at ‘Dreamgirls’
Theatres agree to ‘gender-blind casting’ and more female playwrights
Leading theatres, festivals and groups sign up to policy to increase female involvement
30 plays chosen to move to next stage of A Play For Ireland process
Project seeks subjects that ‘capture the zeitgeist’ of the country
Theatre of the week: Swan Lake reimagined and the Gregory deal remembered
Birds of a feather flock to the theatre this week
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