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Ahead of National Heritage Week, design and cultural historian Dr. Linda King introduces the exhibition she recently curated for the National Print Museum - Poster Boys - The Work of Kevin Scally and ...
Frank Grimes, who has died aged 78, was a charismatic Irish actor whose work ranged from Coronation Street to his own one-man ...
Box office receipts jumped 29 per cent at the Abbey Theatre last year but they are still a fraction of pre-Covid levels. The theatre’s annual report says it had receipts of €572,848 in 2021 ...
The Abbey Theatre was founded by WB Yeats and Lady Gregory in 1904 as a national theater for Ireland. From "revolutionary beginnings", the theater continues to tell the Irish story today through ...
Following a report into the Abbey Theatre’s financial controls and governance, the €7.5 million funding for the national theatre this year, which the Arts Council has approved, has a number of ...
“The role the Abbey Theatre – and its role since it was founded 110 years ago – is to give playwrights and artists an opportunity to make sense of the world around us,” Mac Conghail says.
When a cigarette butt started a fire that destroyed Ireland's national theatre in 1951, the news reverberated in Dublin, and around the world, writes Patrick Geoghegan The Abbey Theatre Irish poet ...
Directors of the Abbey Theatre, Graham McLaren and Neil Murray, today announced an “extraordinary programme for an extraordinary year”, a bespoke range of theatre projects that audiences can ...
Ireland's Abbey Theatre performs its latest production of William Synge's Playboy of the Western World this weekend in New Haven. It's the start of a six-city U.S. tour, while in Dublin, ticket ...