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Irish Theatre Magazine suspends activity

Article by Peter Crawley on 21 March 2014

At the start of the year, Irish Theatre Magazine received news that the Arts Council would not offer funding to the magazine for 2014. Following a subsequent meeting with the Arts Council to discuss the implications of that decision, ITM’s must suspend publishing new content. ITM has benefitted...

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Rough Magic and Opera Theatre Company discover Sky's the limit

Article by Peter Crawley on 29 November 2013

Rough Magic Theatre Company has been named the next Sky Arts Ignition partner, winning €230,000 in funding from the digital broadcaster Sky Ireland to stage a new co-production with Opera Theatre Company. Chosen from a long-list of 60 candidates for the award, which was this year restricted to...

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The Arts Council seeking Advisers

Article by Editor on 04 September 2013

The Arts Council is seeking a number of Arts Advisers in the following areas: Architecture; Circus, Street Arts & Spectacle; Film; Opera; Theatre; Traditional Arts. The Arts Council is seeking experienced practitioners in the relevant areas, to work with the Arts Council's staff by assisting in...

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Around the World in 18 Days: The Dublin Theatre Festival programme is revealed

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 July 2013

It is hard to say what an ideal Dublin Theatre Festival would look like, but the 56th programme, announced today, seems to have all the necessary ingredients. A number of new Irish plays, several new Irish productions of Irish and international classics, and a new Irish adaptation of a seminal European...

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Dublin Fringe Festival Appoints New Director

Article by Peter Crawley on 04 July 2013

Kris Nelson, a Montreal-based producer and curator, has been announced as the new director of the Dublin Fringe Festival. Nelson, who succeeds Róise Goan as she concludes five years at the multi-disciplinary arts festival, is the founding director of Antonym Productions, a Canadian organisation that...

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Making no assumptions: Colm Tóibín’s Testament of Mary closes on Broadway despite Tony nominations

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 May 2013

The fortunes of Colm Tóibín’s The Testament of Mary on Broadway might best be described as a mixed blessing. Barely an hour after it received Tony Award nominations for Best Play (Tóibín), Best Lighting (Jennifer Tipton) and Best Sound Design (Mel Mercier, who was also nominated for a Drama Desk...

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Changing direction: departures and arrivals at the Dublin Fringe Festival, Edinburgh International Festival and Belfast Festival at Queen’s

Article by Peter Crawley on 08 May 2013

The life of a festival director is one of constant motion. Regularly seeing art at home and abroad is one of the most appealing parts of the job (as anyone who has never worked as a festival director will tell you), but to those accustomed to pre-dawn flights, the threat of deep vein thrombosis, five...

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Mark Cantan wins the Stewart Parker Trust Award

Article by Peter Crawley on 08 May 2013

Mark Cantan has been awarded the Stewart Parker Trust New Playwright Bursary of €7,500 for his debut full-length play, Jezebel. The award, which recognises and supports new Irish playwrights, goes to Cantan’s contemporary farce staged last year by Rough Magic, in which a statistician and his...

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The IETM puts its trust in Dublin's performing arts

Article by Peter Crawley on 29 March 2013

Just how informal is the Informal European Theatre Meeting? Convening for the first time in Dublin next month, the IETM Spring Plenary Meeting features four days of discussion, performance and collateral networking, but could never be referred to as an entirely casual affair. (A few years ago the organisation...

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Calling all quizzers

Article by Peter Crawley on 28 March 2013

Those in possession of specialist and general knowledge together with dependable memory retrieval skills can put their point scoring to a number of good causes this month. The National Campaign for the Arts, which is entirely funded by donations, is hosting its first table quiz next month on April 18,...

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