Tom Hickey obituary: An actor with a vocation for his craft
‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’
‘In this country, where most of the population are play-actors ... it’s bound to yield players’
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
Authors, actors and critics remember the Cavan writer best known for The Great Hunger
A year after his death, playwright Tom Murphy is being celebrated by actors keen to share their experience of working on his plays. His widow, actor Jane Brennan, talks about life with – and without – Murphy
Ireland can capitalise on the Brexit brain drain from across the Irish Sea
Westport Chamber Music Festival is back; plus Monteverdi’s ‘The Return of Ulysses’
He brought an opera focus to Kilkenny Arts Festival, but new music was neglected
The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients
Participants in the first Irish production of ‘The Return of Ulysses’ talk to Michael Dervan
As always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramount
Gavan Ring warms up for BBC Proms debut with hometown concert; the first Irish production of Monteverdi’s ‘Il ritorno d’Ulisse’ takes place in Kilkenny
Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm
Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August
Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city
Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach
Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production
Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music
Whelan has moved from wind section to the podium as artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra
A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera
Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO
Company’s first production, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, to be directed by Patrick Mason
Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87
Smart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplier
Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry
‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape
The playwright’s ambition was to create a theatre that was serious in its reflections on Northern Ireland’s political crisis, while being exuberantly theatrical
Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol
Wilde and Shaw, who have similar plays on at the Gate and Abbey, had a prickly relationship
As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service
He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work
Daphne Carroll: November 15th, 1923 - February 8th, 2015
Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor
How does Brian Friel’s 1979 play about a Troubles-era dysfunctional family hold up?
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Full general election coverage including analysis and results for all 43 constituencies
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices