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Brendan Gleeson, Eavan Boland, John Creedon and others pass on advice during this uncertain time
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Actor Karl Shiels, who died on Monday aged 47, played shady Robbie Quinn in the soap
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
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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
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The actor will be honoured at this year's Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
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
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National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’
Owen Roe to get special tribute award at Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
‘His ability to freeze the elusive and contradictory essence in a physical gesture is the mark of a great actor’
Hamlet review: Ruth Negga stars in an oddly one-note interpretation
Dublin Theatre Festival: Yaël Farber hones play’s divisions into survey of allies and enemies
Ronan Farrow interview shows Sean O’Rourke at his best
Radio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan Farrow
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’
‘It was tough . . . but I’ve stepped into a time in Irish theatre that’s really alive’
The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions
Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytale
In the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for size
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
'Once you step over the threshold, you enter Gatsby’s mansion'
Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door
The best theatre shows to catch this week
If the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nation
One for the Road review: A miniature study of terror and torture
Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?
Ralph Fiennes, Michael Gambon and Charles Dance return to the Gate for Michael Colgan’s farewell programme
The starry line-up features work by Samuel Beckett, Brian Friel and Harold Pinter
Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highlights: ‘A great year for the elderly’
Culture review 2016: Seanad National Museum land grab shows depths of philistinism in our political culture
What happens to perspective when theatre adopts a first-person narrative?
Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjective
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
Centenary concerts neglect to take the revolutionary road
Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed
Imagining Ireland makes a stunning break for Europe
The NCH’s centenary celebrations continue with a night of high calibre one-off performances
Bernard Shaw to Roger Casement: put on the performance of your life
As Casement faced trial for treason in 1916, Shaw wrote a speech that he was convinced could turn the trial into a national drama, and save Casement from the scaffold
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: ‘Shakespeare may have been on magic mushrooms’
The Abbey goes Pan Pan for a subversive, tender and innovative production of Shakespeare’s warped comedy, which has been relocated to a nursing home
An actor’s journey into character
Tomorrow, this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards will be presented. The nominees for best actor and best actress talk about the roles they play
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