Lovesong review: An up-and-down marriage that goes to the very end
Theatre: The excellently paired Zara Devlin and Naoise Dunbar star in the Gate production of Abi Morgan’s absorbing play
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Lovesong writer Abi Morgan: ‘I feel incredibly grateful to be here. It’s nearly seven years since Jacob collapsed’
Abi Morgan’s enduring play, which is opening at Dublin's Gate Theatre, tracks the ebb and flow of a long marriage
Paul Mescal to return to Irish stage in ‘taut, explosive, pressure cooker of a play’
Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy
‘The Constitution will soon put women back in their place. Everything is fizzling away’: Sarah Jane Scaife on Youth’s the Season–?
Mary Manning wrote her first play in 1931, when she was 26. It’s astonishing how modern it can feel, says the director of the Abbey’s new production
Fionnula Flanagan: I remember the ‘No Irish or dogs’ signs. I didn’t want to live in a country that took that attitude towards me
Put off London, the actor went instead to the US, where she spent 50 years as one of Ireland’s most prominent screen presences
King Lear at the Gate review: Propulsive production doesn’t quite solve this tragedy’s age-old problems
As Shakespeare’s king, Conleth Hill is at his best when the storm is up and the brain befuddled. But this staging is short on big ideas
Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century
The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Game of Thrones actor Conleth Hill: ‘I was resistant for a long time. I’m not into wizards’
The `Shakespearean' HBO fantasy brought the Northern actor to a wider audience, and he's not complaining
The Guide: Alison Moyet, King Lear, Dublin film festival and other events to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end
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Lisa O’Neill at the Gate: Story-telling artist has never sounded better
Legacy and history weave through this singular performance, which resonates long after it ends
Abbey Theatre gets €9.5m in strategic funding from Arts Council, €1m more than last year
Almost €60 million spread across nationwide arts bodies
2025 on stage: 21 plays, operas and dance works to see over the next 12 months
From King Lear at the Gate to Dr Strangelove starring Steve Coogan, the coming year’s stage line-up includes jukebox musicals, period romcom and a play that probes the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers
Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be
Mary Poppins, Peter Pan and Cinderella: 25 Christmas pantos and shows to see around Ireland this festive season
Jack and the Beanstalk, Mary Poppins and an adaptation of Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment are among the highlights
The Borrowers review: Gate’s Irish-set adaptation is solid good fun for the whole family
Mary Norton’s story will entertain children while adults can convince themselves of its literary status
Gate Theatre stages classic children’s stories for Christmas: see human beans and under-the-floorboards Borrowers
Charles Way’s adaptation of Mary Norton’s stories create atmosphere of family love, adventure and discovery
Colm Tóibín on poet Paul Durcan turning 80: ‘Beside the wildness, there is tenderness’
Durcan’s poems are risk-taking explorations of where tragedy and comedy meet in contemporary Ireland. A selection of his finest work is gathered in a book
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Dancing at Lughnasa review: Gate’s triumphant, breathtakingly beautiful revival deserves groaning houses
Theatre: Caroline Byrne’s production, featuring Zara Devlin, Peter Gowen and Ruth McGill, makes both dream and reverie of Brian Friel’s indestructible play
Anne Friel on her late husband playwright Brian: ‘I was crazy about him. He was everything’
Rehearsals are underway for a new production of Dancing at Lughnasa at the Gate this summer, and a new book about the playwright was published this week
Circle Mirror Transformation: Wonderful presentation of the before and after of theatre at the Gate
Theatre: Róisín McBrinn has created a magnificent Irish production of Annie Baker’s sublime play
Gate Theatre director Róisín McBrinn: ‘A big part of what I’m trying to do is ensure as many voices as possible are given space and power’
After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation
The Pull of the Stars review: Sincere and sharply performed adaptation of Emma Donoghue novel
Play breaks little ground theatrically, but few will emerge unmoved or uninterested
Emma Donoghue: ‘With birth, it’s a real spin of the roulette wheel. Women’s lives have always been determined by this crapshoot’
The writer on her new stage adaptation of The Pull of the Stars, her novel set over three feverish days in the maternity ward of a Dublin hospital
Hozier’s best-laid expansion plans in danger of going awry at Wicklow dwelling
Sara Baume’s publisher chances its arm; prospects for Healy-Raes: The Next Generation; A mystery for a crime writer
The President review: Olwen Fouéré and Hugo Weaving give heroic performances in the Gate’s classy production
The Dublin theatre teams up with Sydney Theatre Company to celebrate the underperformed Austrian great Thomas Bernhard
Olwen Fouéré: ‘I didn’t feel Irish. There’s a great advantage to being an outsider’
The distinctive actor and performer, currently on television in The Tourist, resists convention in both her work and personal life
Krapp’s Last Tape: The acting greats who have taken on Samuel Beckett’s one-man play
Stephen Rea is about to join an illustrious line-up that includes John Hurt, Michael Gambon and Patrick Magee
Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present
Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays
What is and isn’t open for business in Dublin today
Dublin riots: Life in the city centre is partially returning to normal but there are fears that there could be more trouble
Peter Pan review: Fantastic family fun as Roddy Doyle revitalises the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up
Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children
Gate Theatre unveils 2024 season, including world premiere of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars
New community engagement programme to make the theatre ‘a more civic, open and democratic space’
Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night
Roddy Doyle’s new version of Peter Pan postponed because of ‘intricate and technical nature’ of show, says Dublin theatre
‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan
The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland
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