DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history
Revival of Lady Augusta Gregory’s neglected works is of vital importance
The Cherry Orchard: Druid’s Hiberno-Russian cocktail spills over
This staging of Tom Murphy’s Chekhov adaptation should resonate more with contemporary Irish audiences
Design and Destroy: Ireland’s entry at the Prague Quadrennial
An expressionistic form-bending film, giving an insight into the process and product of stage design
Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itself
Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the 2019 winners are . . .
Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
Sonya Kelly: On My Culture Radar
Playwright Sonya Kelly on her hero Tig Notaro and French series Call My Agent
The Country Girls review: Subversion reimagined as sentimentality
The Abbey’s new take makes Edna O’Brien’s novel safe for any syllabus
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons
Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbing
Garry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gas
Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring start
Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon
The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival starts
David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight
The Marriage of Figaro review: setting high standards for Irish opera
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
'The Marriage of Figaro' and the redemptive power of love
Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production
Irish National Opera’s debut show: the best classical and opera this week
Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music
Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting for
Druid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid production
King of the Castle review: An overlooked work steps into the canon
Druid’s production picks away at the tensions of rural life with a savage eye
'It’s on, it’s gone. And that’s the glory of it, actually'
The renowned designer and frequent Druid collaborator Francis O’Connor onthe subtle art of stage design
Angela’s Ashes: The Musical – Are we ready to look back on hard times and smile?
The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats
Afterplay review: Brian Friel taps into his inner Chekhov
Derbhle Crotty and Denis Conway reach deep for this portrait of middle-aged despair
The Yalta Game at the Gate: a seesaw of guilt and passion, while reality lurks nearby
Falling in love is the hardest thing, in this less-is-more production of Brian Friel’s play
The Father review: Owen Roe gives a masterful performance in Zeller’s play
In this empathetic and slippery production, as his confusion grows, so does ours
Waiting for Godot review: The best production for 25 years
Druid Theatre’s production of the Beckett classic is exceptional and miraculous
West Cork villages remember Battle of Jutland soldiers
Communities commemorate six men who died on same day in 1916 with monument
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
Druid steals show at ‘Irish Times’ Theatre Awards
‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director
Blood, sweat and breasts: Derbhle Crotty’s bold approach to acting
From her irreverent early work to ‘volunteering her breasts’ for DruidShakespeare and on to her fresh take on O’Casey’s Juno, Crotty has never been one for convention
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are . . .
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 Importance of Being Earnest review: Wilde wins again
As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service
A Month in the Country review: Getting a grip on some love angles
Turgenev’s play gets a stately pace as Brian Friel smuggles the radical energy of passion into a distinctly Irish word play
Culture Shock: Garry Hynes’s astonishing, exhilarating ‘DruidShakespeare’
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
Review: DruidShakespeare
Druid carve four Shakespeare plays into an epic of regal succession, and drag the kings down with the people where they belong
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