The Weeknd at Croke Park review: Faintly ridiculous – what’s with the Nespresso ad? – but still pure fun
Abel Tesfaye’s Saturday-night Dublin show is a real spectacle. Oddly, though, there’s remarkably little sexual charisma
Tír an Traonaigh review: As the sun breaks through the clouds, there are tears in the audience
This elegiac play takes us across the Mullet peninsula to experience a disappearing part of our lives
We live in a glut of information but we lack the knowledge of vision, intuition and dreams
It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy as stupidity or irrationality, but I’m open to hearing what the rational mind filters out
Translating Marina Carr for the stage: ‘You spend so many hours weighing every word’
A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together
The Alice Project review: Kilkenny witch-hunt story reaches thrilling finale
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: City turns its history into theatre with huge, largely local cast. It’s a visually stunning spectacle
The Last Tape review: Beckett’s language breathes alongside the music in compelling curio
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Hybrid form soon becomes cumbersome, but operatic adaptation of Krapp’s Last Tape still intrigues
My approach to birthdays is to hide and hope the hound of time passes me by
Of course it’s not all bad: these days of apparent celebration can teach us a lot about ourselves
The Curing Line review: Five-star reminder of why we go to the theatre, or why we go out at all
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’
Anna von Hausswolff at All Together Now 2026: Not just brilliant but genuinely surprising
Swedish musician evokes apocalypse, environmental collapse and spiritual darkness in songs striving towards the light
Róis at All Together Now 2026: Traditional keening like you’ve never heard it before
A very good show and an exciting glimpse of the freer, more unpredictable artist Róis could become
All Together Now 2026 highs and lows: Kneecap’s Irish Goodbye, €11 curry chips and Kate Nash’s tin whistle
Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford was packed with 35,000 festivalgoers over the weekend. Here’s what we loved and what we didn’t
Gilla Band at All Together Now 2026: Claustrophobic music that envelops you with richness and darkness
Dara Kiely is the band’s indispensable focal point and he staggers across the stage howling like a wounded man
For Dolores review: Funny, bruising and brilliantly written and acted
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity
The Shaughraun review: Druid’s laugh-out-loud romp is the most enjoyable show you can imagine
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious
Two review: Patrick Ryan and Clelia Murphy bring this painful but very funny play to life
Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out