Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy come full circle with final offering in operatic trilogy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: The playwright and composer join forces once more on ‘suburban horror’, The First Child
Medicine: Domhnall Gleeson is a force to be reckoned with. This performance cuts you to the bone
Review: Enda Walsh invites the audience into his star’s manic, unnerving world
Hansel and Gretel: Flamboyance, playfulness and imagination in INO’s take on Humperdinck
Opera review: Some signals get crossed, but this production aimed both at adults and at children is a really worthwhile venture
Three classical concerts to see this week
Hansel and Gretal the opera, work by women composers and celebrating Beethoven
Pale Sister review: Colm Tóbín’s play more eager to meet a reader than a spectator
While there is a subtlety in Tóbín’s text of this reimagined Antigone, Lisa Dwan’s stentorian performance conveys more thunder than thought
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
Bluebeard’s Castle review: Beauty, power, exultation and despair
Dublin Theatre Festival: Bartók’s music is matched by Paula Murrihy, ideally paired with Joshua Bloom by Irish National Opera
Paula Murrihy: ‘You’ve got to find and follow your road ’
Irish mezzo-soprano on her unusual route into a singing career and her upcoming role as Judith, the fourth wife of Bluebeard
Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’
Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in
‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’ spreads its wings on stage
Enda Walsh’s unlikely theatrical adaptation betters the power of the original story
Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored me
Max Porter's acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is being adapted for the stage by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy
The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera
A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh
The best classical performances to see this week
Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend
Herculanum review: all smoke, no fire
Félicien David’s opera takes the explosion of Mt Vesuvius as its setting, but this production never manages to ignite
The Barber of Seville review: Rossini gets a rock makeover
Characters are given space to sing and shine in impressive updating of a comic classic
Shackleton review: A cold eye cast over a legendary survival story
This Blue Raincoat production is fascinatingly uninterested in the thrills of the survival story
The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death
Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival
Review: The Playboy of the Western World
Blue Raincoat’s fascinating production sharpens up the Synge song by keeping cool
Murphy, Murfi, Walsh and Rea: partners in play heading for Galway
Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh to renew their theatrical partnership
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