‘I had to think about Andrew Tate. That was miserable’: 150 years of masculinity, all in one play
Revered for her work on Succession and Normal People, Alice Birch has now written an era-spanning play about men, novels and the manosphere. Give me a Brontë any day, she says
November 2024
The play that changed my life
The play that changed my life: ‘Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs burned like magnesium’
Cillian Murphy and Eileen Walsh were intoxicating as Pig and Runt – two characters at war with a world that didn’t care about them
October 2024
Enda Walsh delivers a five-star dazzler and Forced Entertainment make mischief at Dublin theatre festival
Safe House is a haunting song cycle by Walsh and Anna Mullarkey while the experimental company’s Signal to Noise pushes language to breaking point
February 2024
Small Things Like These review – Cillian Murphy’s piercingly painful Magdalene Laundries drama
Cillian Murphy: ‘I’d happily appear in Peaky Blinders again’
November 2023
The best theatre to stream this month
The best theatre to stream this month: The Old Man and the Pool, Bedbound and more
Watch Mike Birbiglia’s hit comedy about mortality, Colm and Brenda Meaney in Enda Walsh’s two-hander or choose from a flock of Swan Lakes
February 2023
The Walworth Farce review – tyranny and fantasy at the Elephant and Castle
There is comical swagger and escalating threat but Nicky Allpress’s revival of Enda Walsh’s play is strongest in its fragile moments
Medicine review – Domhnall Gleeson despairs in absurdist institutional limbo
July 2021
Enda Walsh: ‘All my plays are about people who haven’t been loved or looked after’
The Irish playwright is known both for feverishly claustrophobic plays – including his latest, Medicine – and big commercial hits. If a project doesn’t feel right, he fires himself
June 2021
Edinburgh international festival returns with music-heavy lineup
With theatre and dance scaled back, music dominates, including concerts from Simon Rattle, Damon Albarn, Nicola Benedetti and Laura Mvula
January 2021
Lockdown culture
David Bowie's Lazarus musical returns five years after his death
As the stage sequel to The Man Who Fell to Earth is streamed, theatre producer Robert Fox remembers his friend’s creative genius and generosity
June 2019
Cork Midsummer festival review – theatre for all … and one
Mini plays performed for solo festivalgoers are a hit – plus there’s a bluffer’s guide to the suburbs and a Tom Waits-esque concept album come to life
April 2019
Rooms review – Enda Walsh's empty spaces are full of despair
The week in theatre: Kunene and the King; Top Girls; Grief Is the Thing With Feathers – review
March 2019
Grief Is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy is a wonder
Murphy has an astonishing athleticism playing both man and crow in an adaptation of Max Porter’s story of grief
The really empty space: do you need actors to make theatre?
From Enda Walsh’s disembodied voices to a Royal Court escape room, experimental theatre is being made without performers
Playing a blinder: Cillian Murphy on stage – in pictures
The Peaky Blinders star is appearing in Enda Walsh’s staging of the novel Grief Is the Thing With Feathers at the Barbican, London. Here’s a look back at his theatre roles
May 2018
Tom Murphy obituary
Irish playwright who raged against ‘Christian fascism’ and explored the themes of emigration and identity in his work
March 2018
Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing
In Enda Walsh’s ambitious adaptation of the Max Porter novel, Murphy is riveting as a bereaved husband – and an imaginary crow
