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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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Beyond the Belltable: How will Limerick make art without an arts centre?

Article by Peter Crawley on 28 March 2013

As the Belltable company went into liquidation this month, the full extent of the beleaguered organisation’s debts were finally revealed at a creditors meeting on March 12. The company owes more than €2.3m to its various creditors, most of whom are arts companies and staff. But the most significant...

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The Gift of Giving

Article by Peter Crawley on 07 January 2013

If you are preparing for the worst, it’s easy to believe the worst. When one newspaper reported what seemed like another cruel detail of a punishing National Budget for 2013, it caught much attention and criticism: “Philanthropic donations will now be subject to a new 31 per cent tax of what...

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Trees Company: Forest Fringe explored

Article by Peter Crawley on 14 December 2012

In recent years, following the separation of the Dublin Fringe Festival and the Dublin Theatre Festival as concurrent events, some people began to speak longingly of redesigning the performance calendar. “What would be really helpful, and I’m sure everybody hassaid it for years, would be...

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The Revolution will be Digitised

Article by Peter Crawley on 25 October 2012

On the launch day of the Abbey’s joint undertaking with NUI Galway to digitise its expansive archive, everybody seemed capable of making unusual associations. Some of these sounded like earnest topics for a PhD thesis, others sounded borderline facetious, but - with the theatre’s historical...

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Downtown Abbey

Article by Peter Crawley on 10 October 2012

Normal 0 false false false EN-IE X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The Abbey Theatre has made several journeys over the last decade – on paper and feasibility studies at least – but with the €1.5m acquisition...

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