The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
Sophie Motley
‘We started with Take That and worked backwards’: Irish National Opera’s contemporary Werther
Sophie Motley has set the Goethe story behind Massenet’s 1892 opera in an electrifying rural Ireland
Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance
From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th
Cork theatre-makers waiting in the wings to step into the new normal
Theatre scene that thrived before pandemic is busy planning for return to work
Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’
Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions
Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekend
The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque
How fringe are you? 12 shows pitch for your ticket-buying time
As the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival prepares for this month’s event, a dozen of the artists taking part give the low-down on their shows
Review: Everything Between Us
David Ireland drops more than a few depth charges in one of the best pieces about conflict in “post conflict” Northern Ireland yet written
Review: Terjas Verdes
The final part in the Mac’s Chilean trilogy makes the horrors of the Pinochet regime resonate much closer to home
Parallel worlds: A Chilean trilogy that could be about the North
A young ‘disappeared’ woman, the debate over how a building linked to past conflict should be redeployed, and an exploration of a political leader feature in Prime Cut’s ambitious new trio of plays in Belfast
The final act: from the hospice to the stage
WillFredd Theatre’s production reveals the courage that underpins the darkness and light, the ebb and flow, of life in a hospice
Review: Care
WillFredd Theatre’s exploration of hospice care creatively explores systems and coping strategies
Mahler’s masterpiece finally gets the reception it deserves
His First Symphony felt alien to 19th-century listeners, but Saturday’s audience lapped it up
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