Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal
Theatre scene that thrived before pandemic is busy planning for return to work
Pat Kiernan
The two best theatre shows on this week
Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport
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
The Numbered review: an interrogation of our futile anxiety over death
Elias Canetti’s play presents a world where everyone knows the age at which they’ll die
Tryst, Limerick Fringe and Test Copy: this week’s theatre highlights
An engaged couple get more than they bargained for in Tryst; a Tipperary teenager wrestles with fickle popularity in Test Copy
Tipperary actress welcomes chance to bring one woman show to Clonmel
Test copy tells story of student trying to fit into the competitive world of her peers
Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again
Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised
The Same review: Enda Walsh puts two sisters behind bars
Walsh’s intense show takes place in Old Cork Prison
Sacrifice at Easter review: From the bizarre to the beautiful
Cork’s Midsummer Festival’s centrepiece is a triumph
Behind the ramparts: Pat McCabe’s play set in a world of its own
Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script
Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh on 'Disco Pigs': 'It was the ignorance of youth’
Twenty years later, Cillian Murphy, Eileen Walsh, Enda Walsh and Pat Kiernan talk about Corcadorca and the hit play that changed everything
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
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
How we picked the shortlist for the ‘Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards 2015
As the three judges meet to consider the productions they’ve seen in the past year, ‘violent agreement’ breaks out
Gentrification review: We’re forever in Enda Walsh’s debt
Walsh’s new play is designed in conjunction with Ireland’s current miasma of debt, eviction and repossession
Callan calling: a street that acts as a bridge to the past
The Street: A new series examines the life of four streets in Ireland. First we go to Bridge Street in the Co Kilkenny town, which is being brought back to life by locals
Review: How These Desperate Men Talk
Enda Walsh’s new play with Corcadorca melts music and theatre down in a dark metal factory
‘Persevere...and keep having a laugh,’ actor Cillian Murphy tells youth groups in Galway
Corkman says he ‘still has dreams’ about the Leaving Cert
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