Dublin Gothic at the Abbey: ‘It’s big, unapologetically dramatic, linguistically beautiful’
Barbara Bergin’s play follows three inner-city families across a century from the 1880s, and features more than 150 characters
Kate Gilmore
Actor Kate Gilmore: ‘I look at myself – no mortgage, my car is falling apart, I have no money in the bank’
Irish actor Kate Gilmore has taken on what might be her greatest challenge yet: performing alone on stage in Disco Pigs, creator Enda Walsh’s experimental new play at the Peacock Theatre in Dublin
Safe House: Enda Walsh’s new work is an oppressively desolate song cycle
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just you
Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances
Cork Midsummer Festival 2019: Daring work and delicious food
Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme
Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success
Why out of all the Binchy books did Breda Cash Productions walk into this one?
Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister
National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Denis O’Brien hails human rights defenders in speech to charity
Front Line Defenders’ patron lavishes praise on those who work ‘in the face of repression’
Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre
Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’
Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aim
Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve
Dublin Fringe reviews: from teenage sex to undertaker humour
The playground is a battleground in Animalia, while Looking Deadly pits a pair of small-town rival undertakers against each other
Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to see
From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick
Town is Dead review: Kitchen-sink realism meets a spry chamber opera
Phillip McMahon's new collaborative work is `a play within music' that looks to celebrate the unsung heroes among us all
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