Not a Word: An evocative, heartrending play about yearning and forgotten lives
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a word
Raymond Keane
The Long Christmas Dinner: A ghostly telling of a dreamlike curiosity
Thornton Wilder’s expressionist one-act play tracks a family home over 90 years
Hansel and Gretel: Flamboyance, playfulness and imagination in INO’s take on Humperdinck
Opera review: Some signals get crossed, but this production aimed both at adults and at children is a really worthwhile venture
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
Fingers crossed for a dry Paddy’s weekend
The Big Day Out expands to three among the myriad of delights for the St Patrick’s Day weekend
Company review: Sublime theatre for an audience ready to imagine
Dublin Theatre Festival: Raymond Keane soars in this Samuel Beckett dramatisation
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatment
The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games
How fringe are you? 12 shows pitch for your ticket-buying time
As the Tiger Dublin Fringe festival prepares for this month’s event, a dozen of the artists taking part give the low-down on their shows
DTF Review | The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: Don’t expect a fairytale ending
Theatre Lovett’s sinister new version of the fairy tale leads the original very far from home. Has it also lost its trail?
Remember to Breathe review: A play of hidden depths | Tiger Dublin Fringe
Orla Murphy’s play rises above familiar tales of recent Irish exile
Amy Conroy: ‘I didn’t know how to be the girl I was supposed to be’
Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about families
The drama and debacle of the Sallins train robbery
Musician Cormac Breatnach’s brother was wrongly convicted of the 1976 Sallins Mail Train Robbery at the behest of a cohort within the Garda. Now he hopes a new theatre show will cast light on the injustice
Review: Samuel Beckett’s Fizzles
Company SJ create a splitting performance from Beckett’s prose fragments in a crumbling building. Strangely, it becomes a wholly united experience
Dancers in the dark
Emma Martin, whose ‘Tundra’ opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, says dance is about working with ‘things that are beyond words’ – even if that means venturing into some very bleak territory
A cultural St Patrick's day guide
An alternative to the often drink-fuelled day can be enjoyed with this cultural treat
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
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