The festival has shunned an obvious theme in favour of reaching a wider audience

Tom Murphy’s great play, currently at the Gate, subverts Irish and English stereotypes. How did director David Grindley rise to the challenge?

Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre Company’s director, has an unusual ability to combine artistic passion with the deal-clinching pitches of a travelling salesman

Simons Stephens’ Sea Wall is built on the awesome power of the unknown, and in Andrew Scott’s mercurial hands it will seduce and destroy you

The best in theatre of past year are honoured at ‘Irish Times’ award show

He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work

Award is part of the celebrations at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Jousting and jealousy in the sixth form common room

Simon Stephens’s ‘Punk Rock’ is coming to the Lyric, in a statement of intent by the Belfast theatre’s new boss. So will it deliver something ‘live, direct, physical and unpredictable’?

The Shed, an intimate space at home to experimental theatre, seems like a venue designed to suit the times. At the heart of its success is Ben Power, a dramaturg, ‘shadowy figure’ and Shakespeare’s ‘remixer’