Colin Murphy: Online platforms are engines of outrage, but theatre is one of empathy
All of the playwright’s work is grounded in public life - mainly dramatisations of political events featuring real-life characters
Tom Murphy
Playwright
Irish National Opera is showing us how to sing like a pro. Can we pull it off?
Sing Rusalka feels like a personal challenge. As a long-retired choir girl it’s the opportunity to experience the power of a choral group
Druid Theatre: Fifty Years by Patrick Lonergan – a thorough and persuasive account of Druid’s first half century
The book’s main shortcoming is its hyper focus on the founders of Druid at the expense of a broader theatrical framework
Giving all artists a basic income means they can get on with the bloody work
For every €1 invested in the pilot scheme, €1.39 is generated
Druid at 50: Joe O’Shaughnessy’s photographic history of the Galway theatre company
An exhibition in Galway charts the company’s remarkable evolution since being founded by Garry Hynes, Marie Mullen and Mick Lally in 1975
Paul Mescal to return to Irish stage in ‘taut, explosive, pressure cooker of a play’
Star will appear in Abbey and UK National Theatre coproduction of A Whistle in the Dark, by Tom Murphy
‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House
The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
Blackrock four-bed with lots of work-from-home space for €1.95m
Avoca Road house has large open-plan living space and attic conversion
Fintan O’Toole: This Christmas, remember what children give to us
They deserve medals from the State for being heroes throughout the pandemic
Fyffes records €170m loss amid melon and mushroom asset charges
Chairman David McCann and finance chief Tom Murphy share €7.46m in exit pay
Defamation action withdrawn from jury as judge finds court report fair and accurate
Suggestion there was burden on Kilkenny People to background check court evidence was ‘simply untenable’, says judge
RTÉ application to lift order banning naming of child murderer adjourned
Judge puts matter to Monday out of ‘abundance of caution’, court told
Tom Hickey’s work ‘spoke to our private selves’, funeral hears
Son ‘overwhelmed’ by depth of feeling towards actor who died last week
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