It’s time for professional productions to use disabled actors for both disabled and nondisabled characters, say playwright Christian O’Reilly and his colleagues
Galway International Arts Festival 2023: In the hour-long show there is physicality, mask and music, but there’s not a word
Thornton Wilder’s expressionist one-act play tracks a family home over 90 years
Opera review: Some signals get crossed, but this production aimed both at adults and at children is a really worthwhile venture
From Dublin's St Patrick’s Festival to Kilkenny Tradfest and a Co Wicklow slime lab
The Big Day Out expands to three among the myriad of delights for the St Patrick’s Day weekend
Dublin Theatre Festival: Raymond Keane soars in this Samuel Beckett dramatisation
The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games
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
Theatre Lovett’s sinister new version of the fairy tale leads the original very far from home. Has it also lost its trail?
Orla Murphy’s play rises above familiar tales of recent Irish exile
Conroy’s new play is about the journey made by transgender people, but more than anything, says the writer, it’s about families
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
Company SJ create a splitting performance from Beckett’s prose fragments in a crumbling building. Strangely, it becomes a wholly united experience
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
An alternative to the often drink-fuelled day can be enjoyed with this cultural treat
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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