MY friend Mike Dwyer recalls meeting the late Séamus Heaney and the playwright Brian Friel at Stonehill College in Easton, Massachusetts.

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AS part of its residency at the Everyman, Fishamble theatre company is staging Forgotten and Silent, two acclaimed plays written and performed by Pat Kinevane.

Drama, music, comedy and family events will dominate the autumn/winter programme at The Everyman Theatre.

Dublin Fringe’s Show in a Bag plays are designed to tour cheaply

The infamous bank guarantee scheme is the basis for a new play, writes Kyran Fitzgerald

Elaine Murphy explores women’s issues in her new play on the national stage, writes Pádraic Killeen

Mary Murray tells Pádraic Killeen about Fishamble’s latest short form project

Fishamble’s Tiny Plays for Ireland project affords ordinary people the opportunity to speak their minds, writes Pádraic Killeen

A series of nine specially-commissioned monologues to highlight the issue of Amnesty’s Stop Violence Against Women campaign will be performed next week in Dublin.

Irish theatre company Fishamble will bring its acclaimed production of Tadhg Stray Wandered In, by Michael Collins, to the Prague Fringe Festival from June 3 to June 6.