The Curing Line review: Five-star reminder of why we go to the theatre, or why we go out at all
Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’
Michael Gallen
Composer and musician
‘We had to bring a live rooster to the healer. She used its blood to make a poultice’
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: The Curing Line, Michael Gallen’s new opera, has grown out of his study of Irish folk cures
Fedora Prize 2025: Irish composer Michael Gallen wins €100,000 award for new opera
The Curing Line, which is due to premiere at Kilkenny Arts Festival in 2026, has scooped one of the world’s largest opera awards
It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Elsewhere: Agitprop opera combines the serious and the comic
Michael Gallen’s polyglot minimalist music captures energy of historic Monaghan strike
The Monaghan Soviet: How the people took over the asylum
Michael Gallen on the event in his home county that inspired a new opera at the Abbey Theatre
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2021 gives two fingers to adversity with a striking line-up
Ranging from opera to a skatepark installation, the programme marks an extraordinary balancing act
Three Irish opera projects shortlisted for prestigious European prize
Michael Gallen’s Straymaker, Wexford Festival Opera and Irish National Opera make list
Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video
Culture Night could be hit by new Dublin coronavirus restrictions
Some events will probably have to be cancelled if Dublin is raised to Level 3 on Friday
Dublin Dance Festival review: A riot of movement and sound
From individual empowerment to groupthink, dancers tackled disparate themes
Session: ‘Four men in a space playing with music and dance’s relationship’
A new collaboration by choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui and ex-Riverdancer Colin Dunne
St Patrick’s Day: 21 events across Ireland for the bank holiday weekend
From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab
‘I was going to vote for her, but then she said she wanted to be a swan’
In Conversation: Des Bishop and Sinéad Gibney
Dublin Dance Festival: Striptease, Extraterrestrial Events, Deep Dish and Displacement
In a world of where trust in truthful speech is decaying, how much truth resides in the body?
Review: Tardigrade
Interesting fact: Taridgrades can suspend their metabolism for up to 10 years. Expect this show to similarly ensnare your attention
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