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Genevieve Lyons: "audiences prefered to go to Dun Laoghaire to see Lyons as Sally Bowles than go to see Harris in the same role on the big screen". Photo: NUI Galway Archives

How one of the world's biggest musicals found its star in Dublin

Brainstorm • 08 Jan

The Galway team take the pitch for The Big Game in Castlebar in 1987. Photo: Macnas Archives

A game of two halves: when Irish sport meets theatre

Culture • 21 Aug 20

A scene from the Abbey Theatre's 1942 production of Sean O'Casey's The Plough And The Stars featuring FJ Mc Cormick, Joan Plunkett, Austin Meldon, Eric Gorman and others. Photo: Haywood Magee/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images

How theatre promotes conversations around social injustice

Brainstorm • 05 Aug 20

"Fresh and modern": Maxine Peake plays Titania in Russell T Davies' 2016 adaptation of A Midsummer Night's Dream for the BBC

Stay home and watch Shakespeare

Culture • 16 Apr 20

Alison Spittle, the queenpin behind the #CovideoParty series of collective online film-watching

Why are audiences seeking out live collective events online?

Coronavirus • 06 Apr 20

Paris Fitzpatrick as Romeo and Cordelia Braithwaite as Juliet in Matthew Bourne's Romeo And Juliet at Sadler's Wells Theatre, London in 2019. Photo: Robbie Jack/Corbis via Getty Images

How literature has dealt with pandemics and plagues

Culture • 20 Mar 20

Deirdre O'Connell, pictured at the funeral of her husband Luke Kelly in 1984. Photo: Independent News And Media/ Getty Images

How Deirdre O'Connell changed Irish culture

Culture • 19 Feb 20

Dev Patel in The Personal History of David Copperfeld

How David Copperfield tells the story of Charles Dickens

Charles Dickens • 27 Jan 20

Teresa Deevy. Photo: Maynooth University Archive

Teresa Deevey: the overlooked Irish playwright

Theatre • 09 Jan 20

Heads will roll in Shakespeare's world

Shakespeare's world of deaths, corpses and ghosts

Shakespeare • 31 Oct 19

Jemima Watling as Eliza Medhurst and Toby Wynn-Davies as Chandos Bellingham in Phil Willmott's 2019 production of After Dark at London's Finborough Theatre. Photo: Sheila Burnett

A 19th century play with modern overtones

Theatre • 11 Jul 19

Ollie West in Dead Centre's performance of Hamnet

When theatre goes digital...

Theatre • 02 May 19

Edna O'Brien and Louise O'Neill

Country Girls: the ties that link Edna O'Brien and Louise O'Neill

Brainstorm • 08 Jan 20

"Plays written by Frank McGuinness, Aidan Mathews and Tom Murphy demonstrate real concern over such erosion of civil rights and the potential for abuse of these laws by the gardaí"

I fought the law: how 1980s' Irish theatre took on the gardai

Theatre • 26 Mar 19

Oscar winner Olivia Colman as Queen Anne in The Favourite

The art of acting naturally

Acting • 28 Feb 19

Kenneth Branagh as William Shakespeare in All Is True

As you like it: Kenneth Branagh, Shakespeare and Irishness

Shakespeare • 13 Feb 19

"Waking the Feminists mobilised women and men in the arts, the media and beyond to publicly question and expose the mechanisms by which women have been excluded and marginalised"

How Waking the Feminists set an equality agenda for Irish theatre

Waking The Feminists • 22 Nov 18

A Midsummer Night's Dream was performed by Rough Magic at the Kilkenny Arts Festival. Photo: Ste Murray

Has Irish theatre finally made peace with Shakespeare?

Shakespeare • 07 Nov 18

Ruth Negga who will be appearing in Hamlet at The Gate during the Dublin Theatre Festival. Photo: Chris Sutton

Dublin Theatre Festival's long and winding road

Dublin Theatre Festival • 03 Oct 18

Pat Shortt in A Skull In Connemara: "it's worth asking whether all of this success has made McDonagh's plays themselves seem less dangerous"

How Martin McDonagh's work became part of the establishment

Martin McDonagh • 28 Aug 18

Susan Lynch as Hester Swane in the Abbey Theatre's 2015 production of Marina Carr's By the Bog Of Cats

The powerful role of the mother in Irish culture

Theatre • 27 Aug 18

"This is a year when studies of politics, gender and theatre have a shattering contemporary context". Photo: Clare Keogh

"This is not an ordinary year to be a theatre student"

Theatre • 26 Jul 18

John Tussaud working on a model of George Bernard Shaw in 1930. Photo: General Photographic Agency/Getty Images

"My specialty is being right when other people are wrong"

George Bernard Shaw • 13 Apr 18

Irish playwright Marina Carr

Going back to Raftery's Hill with Marina Carr

Marina Carr • 18 Apr 18

From the president to the playwright

In praise of Tom Murphy

Theatre • 29 Jan 18

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