The Irish Times

Is culture’s digital phase starting to fade or will online events continue?

For Cian O’Brien, director of Project Arts Centre, the past year has provided room to rethink approaches and reimagine spaces, though livestreaming has had its challenges

Mon Jun 14 2021 - 05:00

It’ll do for now but streaming can’t replicate the live experience

Does it matter whether online performances are recorded or live?

Sat May 08 2021 - 10:03

Audiences need to learn new skills to consume art online

I have discovered the joys, frustrations and etiquette of being a spectator alone in my home

Mon Mar 15 2021 - 05:00

Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermath

Theatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives forever

Mon Feb 15 2021 - 12:45

‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey

Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture

Sun Dec 13 2020 - 15:08

Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00

Druid theatre company says it will produce only new plays in 2019

New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes

Tue May 14 2019 - 11:00

After a two-year process, Fishamble selects its 'big, ambitious' Play for Ireland

The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions

Tue Apr 02 2019 - 05:00

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the 2019 winners are . . .

Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards

Sun Mar 31 2019 - 21:15

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

Sun Mar 31 2019 - 21:15

Moving the furniture around: This week’s theatre highlights

Sonya Kelly’s wonderfully funny Furniture on tour; John Connors considers Ireland’s Call

Sat Mar 30 2019 - 05:00

Sonya Kelly: On My Culture Radar

Playwright Sonya Kelly on her hero Tig Notaro and French series Call My Agent

Sat Mar 09 2019 - 05:00

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

Thu Dec 27 2018 - 05:00

Not a shamrock in sight: Building a new vision of Ireland in New York

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00

Theatre in 2018: Looking back in anger and learning lessons

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Sat Dec 08 2018 - 06:00

Home Theatre (Ireland) review: An innovation with life-changing potential

Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch

Thu Oct 11 2018 - 11:52

Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring start

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

Wed Jul 18 2018 - 15:25

Furniture review: wickedly insightful comedy from Sonya Kelly

The performers in Kelly’s new comedy about people and things, say their lines with wit and only occasionally bump into the furniture

Tue Jul 17 2018 - 13:45

The balloon - or rather, the moon - goes up as Galway’s arts festival starts

David Mach’s vehicles explode out of an old print work’s concrete floor, an inflatable moon rises over the street, a sharp new Irish play opens - and that’s before Galway International Arts Festival opens tonight

Mon Jul 16 2018 - 13:00