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Cian O'Brien is the Project's new Artistic Director

Article by Peter Crawley on 21 September 2011

Cian O’Brien is the new Artistic Director of Project Arts Centre, an appointment that is as welcome, encouraging and refreshing as it is entirely unsurprising. Some career trajectories have a clear logic and unstoppable momentum. O’Brien leaves Rough Magic Theatre Company, with whom he has...

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Bringing it all back home: Loughlin Deegan reveals the 2011 UBDTF programme

Article by Peter Crawley on 26 July 2011

He started as he meant to continue. As Loughlin Deegan delivers his fifth and final programme for the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival as Artistic Director, there is as much continuity as there are new challenges in the three-week event. This year’s Festival features ten world premieres,builds...

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Willie White is the new Artistic Director and CEO of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival

Article by Peter Crawley on 18 July 2011

The search for a new artistic director and CEO of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival may have extended far and wide, a position of influence that tends to attract international attention, but in the end the successful applicant occupies an office two doors down the street from the Festival office....

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Smock Alley's progress under pressure

Article by Peter Crawley on 12 July 2011

Smock Alley is under pressure. But its director, Patrick Sutton, who is also the director of the Gaiety School of Acting, soon to be its “anchor tenant” admits this with a characteristic upsurge of rhetoric and determination. “Are we under pressure?” he asks. “Yes we...

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Orlaith McBride appointed new Director of the Arts Council

Article by Peter Crawley on 21 June 2011

Orlaith McBride has been appointed the new Director of the Arts Council. McBride, who takes over from Mary Cloake in September, is the Director of the National Association for Youth Drama and has worked in the arts in various capacities for fifteen years. She has previously served as a member of the...

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Loughlin Deegan's latest exit and an entrance

Loughlin Deegan's latest exit and entrance

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 May 2011

“Loughlin Deegan is to step down as Artistic Director of the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival in October to become the Director of The Lir, the National Academy of Dramatic Art in Trinity College Dublin. This is a new position.” Economical in its phrasing, free of comment, clean and precise,...

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ITM Editor recruitment

Article by Irish Theatre Magazine on 15 March 2011

Irish Theatre Magazine is currently recuiting a new Editor to succeed Helen Meany, who has held the post since 2005. The closing date for applications is Monday, April 4th, and those interested in applying should refer to the detailed job description and information below: Editor Irish Theatre Magazine...

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Tom Creed appointed to Cork Midsummer Festival

Return of the native: Tom Creed

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 March 2011

Tom Creed, one of the busiest theatre directors in the country, has been appointed the new Festival Director of the Cork Midsummer Festival. Succeeding William Galinsky, who resigned last year to take up the artistic director position with the Norwich and Norfolk festival, Creed takes the reins of Cork’s...

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The art of politics

Article by Peter Crawley on 17 February 2011

When, on Valentine’s Day, representatives of Ireland’s five political parties spoke about their respective artistic policies at a hustings arranged by the National Campaign for the Arts in Dublin (three more took place in Cork, Galway and Limerick), two red roses sat dreamily on their table....

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Moves on the board

Article by Peter Crawley on 17 February 2011

The Abbey Theatre has appointed Róise Goan and Jane Brennan to its board, filling positions vacated by the performer Olwen Fouéré and Rough Magic’s director Lynne Parker who both stepped down some months ago. Brennan, one of the country’s most recognisable actors and co-founder of B*Spoke...

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