Earth Sonnet: Mel Mercier’s vast soundscape of poetry and music sticks in the mind long after the performance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’
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The Guide: Cúirt, Samara Joy, Take That and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end
April 20th-April 26th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week
The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey review: Superbly skilled Mikel Murfi pares his one-man confessional to its emotional bone
Theatre: Mikel Murfi writes, directs and stars in the final play in trio that began with The Man in the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice
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
Here’s to Ireland’s unofficial ambassadors flying flags around the world
Celebrating the men and women flying flags for Ireland from Auckland to Rockland, Paris to Belgrade
Not a shamrock in sight: Building a new vision of Ireland in New York
The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America
Francis Brennan: On My Culture Radar
The TV personality on his love of Villagers and the Christmas cracker item he can’t live without
Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’
Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in
Freeing Lolita from Nabokov’s narrative clutches
Dublin Dance Festival 2018 reviews: Junk Ensemble’s ‘Dolores’, Robyn Orlin’s ‘And so you see...’, ‘(b)reaching stillness’, ‘Ion’, Yvonne Rainer and DAI the dancing robot
Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’: What do we do with the art of monstrous men?
Junk Ensemble’s new production tells the ‘Lolita’ story from the young girl’s perspective
Best theatre this week: a female perspective on Joyce’s Dubliners
Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War
Irish adaption of ‘Swan Lake’ among highlights of Clonmel Junction Festival
Music and theatre lovers well catered for with eclectic mix at popular Tipperary event
Culture Shock: Sparks fly in ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’ and ‘These Rooms’
Dublin Theatre Festival is staging thrilling blends of dance and drama by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Anu and CoisCéim
Swan Lake review: Humour in the darkness, beauty among the ruin
Dublin Theatre Festival: Mikel Murfi takes multiple roles in Michael Keegan Dolan majestic retelling of the classic story-ballet
Taking a bow for Irish theatre
‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards
The Poor Little Boy With No Arms review: A bright ensemble and a heart of darkness
Skibberceannaigh has many dark secrets; unearthing them proves trickier than imagined
The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death
Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival
Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’
Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride
Review: Julie Feeney
Feeney, a singular musical talent, is barely present in this new show that is cruelly inattentive to its audience
Do you know the way to Galway International?
The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere
Review: Ballyturk
Enda Walsh’s new play ruptures the routine of two friends who prop up their reality on a daily basis. It’s also a matter of life and death
‘Wild thing’ and lobsters kick off Galway festival
Galway celebrates two arts festivals in one fortnight
Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight
Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue
Welcome to Ballyturk: darkness, stress and a joker in the pack
Enda Walsh’s intense new play brings together an all-star cast of Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi. Are they looking forward to being put under ‘tremendous strain’ by Walsh?
Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk: dabbling with mortality in our own private universes
The playwright has created another peculiar world with its own logic in his new piece, in which two friends, played by Cillian Murphy and Mikel Murfi, are abruptly confronted with the concept of death
Film review: Jimmy’s Hall
Life in the Free State was no jape, according to Ken Loach's affecting, beautifully shot but somewhat underpowered drama
What do a dragon, aliens and a giant red ball have in common?
Galway International Arts Festival announces programme for July event
Murphy, Murfi, Walsh and Rea: partners in play heading for Galway
Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh to renew their theatrical partnership
Cheers of a clown
Behind the humour is a ‘search for what is human’, says Lee Delong, who is bringing ‘Night of the Living’ Clown to the Múscailt arts festival in Galway
The best of Irish theatre: this year’s nominees
Announcing the ’Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards shortlist for 2013. Terrible financial circumstances did not limit the diversity of productions, from knockout operas to one-man shows
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