A witty play about weighty matters; and a prison drama drawn from real life

Average weekly earnings of €494 for performers in the arts is two-thirds of the average in other sectors

The singer’s unconventional collaboration with Brokentalkers makes an unsettling art of suffering

Busy newly-qualified doctor still enjoying the big occasions at Croke Park with Dublin

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’

The HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silence

Brokentalkers’ surreal piece of dance theatre takes WB Yeats at his word

The opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesque

In two productions, the maverick theatre group tackle big ideas about national identity, ‘which is really based on the idea that some people are better than others’

From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick

Boxing coach insists he won’t break his contract in America to return home

Many athletes find normal life extremely difficult after the high of competing on greatest stage

Katie Taylor’s defeat is the final straw for a sport that’s in crisis

To the young men and women in Ireland’s 375 amateur boxing clubs, example is important

August deal with the Sports Council worth €95,000 was withdrawn within days

Irish sport, and Irish boxing, should do everything to keep the successful coach

Former Olympic boxing team captain says loss of coach would be ‘disgraceful’

Aim this season is to qualify boats for the Olympics through the World Championships

It’s not actors whose way you need to stay out of behind the scenes at a theatre but stage managers, the key crew who subtly crack the whip from the wings