MONTREAL — The Abbey Theater’s artistic director, Ben Barnes, last week survived a motion of no confidence in his leadership. But the theater he’ll run until December 2005 is in a dire state.

THE Abbey Theatre last night announced it is to begin looking for a replacement for its current artistic director Ben Barnes this week. Mr Barnes, who was appointed in 1999, is due to complete his six ...

MONTREAL — Ben Barnes, the artistic director of the Abbey Theater, will leave his post at the end of 2005 after a six-year extended term in the job. He has told the Irish media that the issue of his ...

Just before Christmas eight years ago, the then artistic director of the Abbey, Ben Barnes met with the secretary general of the Department of the Arts, Philip Furlong, at his Mespil Road offices. "It ...

The board of the Abbey Theatre will meet in emergency session this morning to discuss a controversial e-mail sent by its artistic… The board of the Abbey Theatre will meet in emergency session this ...

It’s not quite the centenary celebration imagined by Dublin’s esteemed Abbey Theatre, which produced such legendary writers as Sean O’Casey, J.M. Synge, Brendan Behan and Brian Friel. But as it begins ...