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The Return of Ulysses review: The musical equivalent of the world’s best chef using just a clutch of the finest ingredients

Three of the best classical music concerts in Ireland this week

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

When grief and art become a gruelling, physical process

Incantata review: the staging of Paul Muldoon’s elegy for a lover and a fellow artist is grief as an artform

Kilkenny Art Festival focusing on piano and chamber music of Brahms

Festival director Eugene Downes’ term to come to an end after five years at the helm

‘On Raftery’s Hill’ review: a striking and pummelling production

Marina Carr’s bleak topical tragedy is like the fresh jolt of a recurring nightmare

The Marriage of Figaro review: setting high standards for Irish opera

Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach

Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night

Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner

Behind the scenes at Gate Theatre's 'The Red Shoes'

Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape

‘Sallynoggin was her Vietnam’ RossOCK says of his mother

Postcards From The Ledge review: OMG – are those like actual feelings Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is having?

Michael McKillop claims 1500m gold at World Championships

John Fitzsimons wins bronze at European Under-20 Championships in Grosseto, Italy

Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again

Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised

Giselle review: streets fights and cryptic connections in a frantic production

Ludovic Ondiviela’s hip interpretation never dips below the surface of this classic

Ireland select 44 athletes for Rio Paralympics

Champions Smyth and McKillop lead the team aiming to secure eight medals

Sacrifice at Easter review: From the bizarre to the beautiful

Cork’s Midsummer Festival’s centrepiece is a triumph

The Plough and the Stars review: The poverty of our era put centre stage

The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?

Kid's Christmas: Little Red Riding Hood and the Big Bad Wolf at the Lyric

Belfast show’s spectacular opening offers a tantalising indication of things to come

DTF Review | Shibboleth: Examining the walls that run through Northern Irish heads

Belfast’s Peace Walls, like shibboleths, are designed to keep people separated. But Stacey Gregg’s restless new play constructs them as an inhibiting prison

The Match Box review: A bereaved woman plays with fire

A Liverpudlian mother is pushed to the edge of the world by a tragedy

Review: Julie Feeney

Feeney, a singular musical talent, is barely present in this new show that is cruelly inattentive to its audience

Gleeson family values put to the test in this fantastical farce

In Enda Walsh’s turbo-charged tragicomedy, an Irish family are horribly condemned to live out their lives in endless performances. Any similarity to the Gleeson family is entirely coincidental

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