Elektra: Power and passion from Irish National Opera in the Kilkenny rain
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
Soprano Giselle Allen projects captivating humanity and emotional intensity
Belfast soprano on music, acting and her career route to Strauss’s angry, angular role
Premiere staging of Mary Lavin’s story of grief and vulnerability strikes just right note
The event’s second week was crowned by Dancing at Dusk: A Moment with Pina Bausch’s The Rite of Spring
Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video
The Covid-19 crisis has put millions of independent artists and small companies around the world under existential threat
The actor best known as Ma Mary talks about hideous jumpers, being married to Tommy Tiernan on screen, and her new play about women footballers
This huge adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel is both an impassioned critique and a persuasive illustration of crowd control
Evening of contemporary dance opens with two performances that serve like amuse-bouches for final course
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
A big, blousy performance that hints at Theresa in Brexitland
Review: Confidence permeates opening night of opera famed for its massiveness
Ian Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s direction
Cork athlete’s feat on day three comes after Irish hat-trick of medals in Berlin
The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape
Postcards From The Ledge review: OMG – are those like actual feelings Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is having?
John Fitzsimons wins bronze at European Under-20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy
Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised
Ludovic Ondiviela’s hip interpretation never dips below the surface of this classic
Champions Smyth and McKillop lead the team aiming to secure eight medals
Cork’s Midsummer Festival’s centrepiece is a triumph
The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?
Belfast show’s spectacular opening offers a tantalising indication of things to come
Belfast’s Peace Walls, like shibboleths, are designed to keep people separated. But Stacey Gregg’s restless new play constructs them as an inhibiting prison
A Liverpudlian mother is pushed to the edge of the world by a tragedy
Feeney, a singular musical talent, is barely present in this new show that is cruelly inattentive to its audience
In Enda Walsh’s turbo-charged tragicomedy, an Irish family are horribly condemned to live out their lives in endless performances. Any similarity to the Gleeson family is entirely coincidental
Utility reports to Data Protection Commissioner after information sent to wrong individuals
It’s not unusual to find our best theatrical talent working in children’s theatre, and given the calibre of the work there’s little wonder why
Nevermind Mark O’Rowe’s return to dialogue, does his family tragedy for the Abbey signal a new commitment to realism? Or is anything here as it seems?
Written fitfully during the first World War and finally presented to an utterly changed world, Shaw’s experimental play remains tangled and complex. Can the Abbey make sense of it?
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices