The Abbey Theatre last night confirmed it has agreed to pay Nigerian playwright Bisi Adigun and his theatre company €200,000 for copyright infringement.

The Abbey Theatre has settled a High Court row over the rights to a remake of 'The Playboy of the Western World'.

Novelist Roddy Doyle has been ordered by a High Court judge to provide a sworn statement that he only has one version of a play he allegedly co-wrote with a man who is suing him and the Abbey Theatre in a row over alleged copyright infringement.

A play at the Abbey Theatre is to be subtitled for the first time for deaf members of the audience, it emerged today.

A RADICAL new version of a famous play is being staged at the Abbey Theatre — 100 years after it caused street riots.