Coronavirus: ‘The people involved in this business are so vulnerable’
Artists and arts workers have been left in desperate straits by the sudden shutdown
Aida: courageous production succeeds in story and spectacle
Review: Confidence permeates opening night of opera famed for its massiveness
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
A devilish new plan for Faust at the Everyman
Director-conductor John O’Brien has taken an adventurous approach
Review: Wuthering Heights
The moors of Emily Brontë’s novel are raging and unruly, peaceful and polite. Is the new Gate adapation torn between two worlds?
Wuthering Heights: ‘There comes a point when you have to put the book down’
As the Gate presents a fresh adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic of passion (or hysterical excess, depending on your outlook), a new Heathcliff and Catherine get to grips with our expectations and their interpretations
Review: The Rape of Lucretia
Irish Youth Opera has begun its mission with a slick, updated version of Britten’s opera
Der Vampyr’s use of space has more bite than Mahagonny’s
Set designers have a crucial influence over the musical experience of an opera – here’s the evidence
Review: Conservatory
Michael West’s new play at the Abbey is a grimly amusing and deeply unsettling exploration of marriage
Standing on ceremony
Ibsen meets Jerry Springer in Carmel Winters’s new play, which features infidelity, revenge and a bitterly disintegrating family
This other ‘other Eden’
Can Shakespeare’s drama of a dethroned English King be turned into an Irish history lesson?
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