Touring helps Abbey Theatre boost box office receipts by 28%
Income from theatre company’s touring in Ireland and Britain jumps eightfold in 2018
Cyprus Avenue and The Plough and the Stars: the best theatre of the week
Stephen Rea stars in David Ireland’s scabrous comedy; the Abbey’s O’Casey returns
Abbey Theatre reveals new season
The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre
‘We can’t keep funding productions and not the time for their development’
The ‘Irish Times’ IrishTheatre Awards judges have been impressed by the sector's strength in depth but concerned about the effect of funding cuts
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: The Rude Mechanicals run the show
Dublin Theatre Festival: Shakespeare’s comedy of transformation and desire meets the raucous energy of an outdoor music festival in an anarchic production
The Plough and the Stars review: The poverty of our era put centre stage
The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?
‘People might be cross that some English bloke has desecrated a classic’
Director Seán Holmes had never seen The Plough and the Stars staged – until his current version went up at the Abbey Theatre
Abbey Theatre to ‘interrogate rather than celebrate’ Easter Rising
Waking the Nation programme to mark 1916 centenary has three world premieres
Simon Stephens: Curious incidents, inventions and lies
Can a main character who resists emotion and metaphor survive on stage? Simon Stephens takes on the challenge in his adaptation of ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’
The Gigli Concert: ‘What’s an Englishman doing directing a revered Irish classic?
Tom Murphy’s great play, currently at the Gate, subverts Irish and English stereotypes. How did director David Grindley rise to the challenge?
The dark side of the moon landing
Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters
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