Jane O’Leary: ‘I never say I’m a composer. I make music and I listen to it. I’m part of a community. That’s what matters to me’
Jane O’Leary, recipient of the National Concert Hall’s lifetime-achievement award, on her half-century of musical innovation
Kilkenny Arts Festival review: Sinews strain as daylight fades in uplifting Neon Dusk
Theatre: Intimate setting lends new dimension to high-intensity acrobatic performance
Kilkenny Arts Festival review: Spellbinding drama about first woman accused of witchcraft in Ireland
Theatre: The Alice Project tells the legend of Dame Alice Kyteler and her unfortunate servant Petronella
What Are You Afraid Of? at Kilkenny Arts Festival: Peter Hanly’s stage-fright journey is provoking, enlightening and enriching
Lynne Parker directs her Rough Magic colleague with sensitivity and sureness and nuance, as well as a deft comic touch
A US couple in Clonmel: ‘America is me-me-me-me. Ireland still has that community feeling’
Barrie Peterson and Bea Conner moved from upstate New York to Clonmel in June 2024
Dublin Theatre Festival programme revealed
Róise Goan announces her first programme as artistic director and CEO
Why the Moon Travels review: Eye-opening show is not just a retelling of Traveller folktales
Galway International Arts Festival: For the audience, there are hints of things we want to hear more about
Story of a Day – Scéal Lae review: Nothing special is pretty special
Galway International Arts Festival: This show has the high production values children’s theatre deserves
A US animal lawyer in Wexford: ‘There’s a real social cost here: if you’re not fun, you’re gonna pay’
Peter Brandt moved from Portland, Oregon to Wexford in 2021
Enda Walsh’s The Baby’s Room: an evocative moment of self-realisation
Galway International Arts Festival: another tour de force by Kate Gilmore, written and directed by Enda Walsh
T5 and Sea Wall double bill review: Two very different responses to trauma pack an emotional punch
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Simon Stephens’ short one-act monologues are strong, forthright and beautiful
Mikel Murfi’s underwater production is surely one of the most unusual, intriguing and oddly life-enhancing things about
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: Oh…. is gob-smackingly skilled
Sabotage review: Joyously chaotic festival opener has all the fun of the circus
Galway International Arts Festival 2025: A gorgeous, playful, accomplished start to a festive fortnight
As Galway’s arts festival opens, the city’s long-expected cultural space inches slowly towards planning this year
Artistic director ‘embarrassed’ at how ‘dreadfully inadequate Galway is in terms of cultural infrastructure’
Garry Hynes: ‘My wife was taken from me in the blink of an eye. My whole life’s changed’
The Druid founder has a reputation as a demanding director. But she has mellowed – and theatre is a consolation after her wife was ‘taken from me in the blink of an eye’