Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill
Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth
Garry Hynes
‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House
The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: 15 events to catch this year
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: here are 15 unmissable things to see and do at this year’s festival
Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan take on Beckett: ‘To understand Endgame is to understand that you can’t understand Endgame’
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: For Druid’s Endgame, Aaron Monaghan and Rory Nolan are immersed in Beckett. It’s surpringly enjoyable, they say
Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey
Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July
DruidO’Casey: A brilliant ensemble cast brings Garry Hynes’ vision to life in back-to-back productions
Galway International Arts Festival: Seán O’Casey’s Plough and the Stars, Shadow of a Gunman and Juno and the Paycock follow Druid’s Synge, Murphy and Shakespeare cycles
‘This will be Colm Meaney’s first time on stage in Ireland in 40 years’: Galway arts festival unveils 2023 line-up
Galway International Arts Festival 2023, which takes over the city in July, also includes DruidO’Casey and the edge-of-the-seat acrobatics of The Pulse
And now for the stars: O’Casey’s great-granddaughter takes to the stage
After graduating from Dublin's Lir Academy, Agnes O'Casey makes her debut in Druid’s The Seagull
Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
Boland: Journey of a Poet – One-note production of a near-perfect biographical play
Review: Druid’s chronicle of Eavan Boland’s life and work overlooks myriad possibilities
House in Joyce’s The Dead to be turned into hostel despite Tóibín appeal
Bord Pleanála approves plans following objections from authors, poets and An Taisce
DruidGregory review: Captivating performance rooted in history
Revival of Lady Augusta Gregory’s neglected works is of vital importance
Marie Mullen to lead Lady Gregory cast as Druid returns to live theatre
DruidGregory begins a 15-venue tour at Coole Park, the writer’s Galway estate, next month
‘God couldn’t have come up with a better pathogen to attack theatre’
Druid was on the up before coronavirus. Now it must reimagine how the show can go on
Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power
Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment
The Beacon review: Absorbing, intelligent and grimly funny
Fascinated with ideas of art and ambiguity, Nancy Harris’s play sees long hidden secrets dredged up
Beckett and Keane help Druid Theatre box office income soar 38%
Productions of Waiting for Godot and Sive contribute to revenue increase of 21 per cent
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?
‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’
US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany
From Beckett to A Christmas Carol, but not the Gate Theatre as we know it
Selina Cartmell unveils a new season featuring collaborations with Colm Tóibín, Stanley Townsend, Garry Hynes, Anu and Dead Centre
‘Tom was very good at expressing his emotions, so I always felt his love. He didn’t bottle that up’
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
Ireland ‘ruthlessly condemns artists to lives of poverty’
Arts Council budget still 10% lower than it was in 2007, according to The Arts Matter report
Seána Kerslake: ‘The red carpet is not my favourite place’
The Tallaght actor might have to get used to it, as her star quality shines in The Hole in the Ground
The Cripple of Inishmaan review: Outlandish tales and dark distortions
This new production of Martin McDonagh’s comedy is wise not to play it straight
Campaigning for better conditions for artists in Sellotaped shoes
The issue of artists’ livelihood dominated a 250-strong gathering at Dublin Castle
Board governance at the heart of problem at the Abbey, says Garry Hynes
‘Not acceptable’ that major national institution ‘apparently lacking in governance’
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
Directing a Martin McDonagh play? It’s the stuff of dreams
The challenge is to honour his writing. When the cast find the rhythm, the work sings
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
Maire Geoghegan-Quinn resigns from Galway 2020 board
Organisation said former EU Commissioner left due to unavailablity for board meetings
Galway 2020 loses key board member with resignation of arts festival chief
Confirmation of resignation of John Crumlish follows Druid’s withdrawal of flagship production
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