‘Always be beautiful. Always be dynamic. Always be welcoming’A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War PaintThu Jul 23 2020 - 05:00
Little John Nee: Storyteller goes back to basicsDIY stagecraft and theatrical invention get Tuam performer out under Tilt of the SkyMon Jul 20 2020 - 06:00
Best new children’s books: actor Jack Ryder’s debut novelUnadoptable children and plenty of tigers feature in this collection of adventuresSat Jul 18 2020 - 06:00
Au Revoir, Tristesse: Lessons in Happiness from French LiteratureViv Groskop sheds light on how personal readings of books can shift with timeSat Jun 13 2020 - 06:00
Corcadorca: Reimagining site-specific theatre for social distanceDrama is fine online, but the deep art thrill needs innovative collective experience spacesTue Jun 09 2020 - 05:00
New children’s books: Pirates, robots and ‘the world’s most stupid detective’Adventures and mysteries abound in this month’s releases for younger readersFri May 29 2020 - 06:00
What does theatre look like streamed directly into your home?Howie the Rookie at The Lock Inn is running online on Wednesday nights until June 10thWed May 27 2020 - 05:00
Trivial Pursuits: Prolix work of underwhelming musingsRaven Smith’s flashy literary style glitters with dense detail but little of substanceThu May 07 2020 - 06:00
Live Collision develops a new kind of festival in response to Covid-19The coronavirus outbreak forced a rethink for the cutting-edge arts festival – with intriguing resultsSat Apr 18 2020 - 05:00
Michelle Paver: ‘My most disgusting experience? Eating a leopard slug’The bestselling children’s author on making sure her fantasies are grounded in realityWed Apr 01 2020 - 06:00
Children’s books: Monsters, mermaids and animal detectivesSeaside tales full of magic and mystery, and a bear looking for chocolate cakeSat Mar 28 2020 - 06:00
Sruth na Teanga review: Immersive, vivid and playfully persuasiveSet in Galway Airport, the audience is led to an understanding of how Gaeilge evolvedSat Mar 14 2020 - 05:00
The Lonsdale Project: A production of creativity and scienceA celebration of Irish crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale’s achievementsThu Mar 05 2020 - 05:00
Children’s fiction round-up: Patience Agbabi’s book celebrates diversityPlus books from Gareth P. Jones, Kristin Roskifte, Yoko Tanaka and Noelle SmitSat Feb 29 2020 - 06:00
This week’s theatre highlights: Druid’s production of The Cherry OrchardPlay will be live-streamed to cinemas in March in a first for an Irish productionSat Feb 22 2020 - 05:00
This week’s theatre highlights: Scene + Heard festivalSmock Alley’s new work showcase features 85 performance pieces on stageSat Feb 15 2020 - 05:00
What I (Don’t) Know About Autism: A riveting celebration of differenceTheatre review: Jody O’Neill’s timely new play has a wide emotional registerWed Feb 05 2020 - 12:50
‘We lay a trail of breadcrumbs to lead through the opera’A family-friendly Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel aims to draw in childrenTue Feb 04 2020 - 05:00
Children’s books round-up: A book for kids to deal with loss of a petPlus Two Bears, A House Without Walls, Lost, Agent Zaiba Investigates, Demelza and the Spectre DetectorsSat Feb 01 2020 - 06:00
Eileen Walsh: How I reconcile motherhood with playing MedeaTaking the role of a woman who kills her children is not easy with children of your ownSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
This week’s theatre highlights: TRAD and FlightsCatch the final dates of the well-travelled and well-received production of TRADSat Feb 01 2020 - 05:00
The best play to see in Ireland this weekShaun Dunne’s new play Restoration examines the tensions embedded in social workSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Who has been nominated?From the epic to the intimate, 2019 was a year of outstanding Irish theatreSat Jan 25 2020 - 05:00
Marita Conlon-McKenna: ‘I didn’t think I would write another Famine novel’Thirty years after Under the Hawthorn Tree, the author has written a Famine story for adultsSat Jan 18 2020 - 06:00
Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?In the 1990s Druid passed on The Lieutenant of Inishmore – the political temperature is different nowSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
The best plays to go to in Ireland this weekRonan Fitzgibbon’s Blackwater Babble and Irene Kelleher’s Gone Full HavishamSat Jan 18 2020 - 05:00
Teenage dreams turned to Stardust: This week’s theatre highlightGemma Kane’s debut play 48 sees the human side of the 1981 Stardust nightclub fireSat Jan 11 2020 - 05:00
Children’s books: Brighten up January with these new titlesStories of a lost cat, a lost bird and friendships in moments of hardship and difficultySat Jan 04 2020 - 06:00
First Fortnight Festival: National programme includes more than 60 eventsShows include mass physical therapy to theatrical portraits of minds under siegeSat Jan 04 2020 - 05:00
This week’s best theatre shows suitable for the whole familyRoom on the Broom and Buddy the Elf aim to please over the holiday seasonSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
Theatre 2020: The best shows to catch in the coming yearChekhov, McDonagh and O’Casey to be staged, along with newcomers to Irish sceneSat Dec 28 2019 - 05:00
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: Magic in the mundaneAbbey Theatre play’s spiritual undertones feel appropriate to Christmas timeSat Dec 21 2019 - 05:00
Different class and musical sass: This week’s theatre highlightsWell That’s What I Heard explores class divisions; Mamma Mia! explores Abba hitsSat Dec 14 2019 - 05:00
Cinderella review: Like being slapped in the face by a rainbowPlus our reviews of all the best Christmas pantos – and the ones to avoidWed Dec 11 2019 - 11:45
‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet flyMeet Daryn Crosbie and the colourful crew behind the Gaiety pantoTue Dec 10 2019 - 05:00
Children’s books round-up: A picturebook which is the perfect Christmas giftPlus new titles from Abi Elphinstone, Shirley Hughes and Natasha Mac a’BháirdSat Dec 07 2019 - 06:00
The week’s best plays: Christmas with Orson Welles and stuck in the pubA ‘radio play within a play’ production; and an annual tradition at the Lyric in BelfastSat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00
Christmas events 2019: Your guide to pantos, concerts, festivals and moreOur selection of festive events around Ireland right through to the new yearFri Dec 06 2019 - 06:00
‘For me my mouth is my hand, it’s second nature for me to hold a brush’Disabled artist Ian Parker has just illustrated a children’s book about a disabled characterTue Dec 03 2019 - 06:01
The best theatre this week: From Beckett to a female-centred festivalDes Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan stage a reunion; and SoloSirens comes to TallaghtSat Nov 30 2019 - 05:00
The best theatre shows to see this weekRory Gleeson’s Blood in the Dirt, and the Bockety World of Henry BucketSat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
Drama at Inish gets the ‘funny fixer’ treatmentCal McCrystal has worked as a comedy adviser – from Paddington to One Man, Two Guvnors – and now comes to Dublin to direct Lennox Robinson’s 1933 play at the AbbeySat Nov 23 2019 - 05:00
A Christmas Carol review: Only a Scrooge wouldn’t enjoy itSelina Cartmell’s ambitious Gate production is both intimate and involvingFri Nov 22 2019 - 13:05
Children’s books round-up: What Greta Thunberg can teach kidsPlus new books on children who changed the world, the art of protest and time zone travel talesSat Nov 09 2019 - 06:00
Colm Tóibín is an ‘extraordinary’ writer of women ... ‘in the 1950s’Lisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín discuss working together on 'Pale Sister' a new piece of theatre based on the story of AntigoneThu Oct 24 2019 - 05:00
‘If they’ve made it, they’ll eat it’: Smart ways to get kids cooking – and eating less fussilyPicture recipe book offers an imaginative way to explore world cuisines with kidsSat Oct 19 2019 - 06:00
‘Totally different to creating work for adults’: Theatre makers on working with childrenBaboró arts festival in Galway will bring 14 theatre companies to perform for childrenTue Oct 15 2019 - 05:00
The Haircut! review: King Labhraidh Loingseach gets a makeoverDublin Theatre Festival: This perfectly paced production for ages eight and up retells the Irish folk tale for a new audienceMon Oct 14 2019 - 12:14
Children’s books: In the Key of Code breaks new groundThe Children of Lir , The Fate of Fausto , Scúnc Agus Smúirín, The Ghouls of HowlfairSat Oct 12 2019 - 06:00
Philip Pullman: ‘I don’t think anyone could have predicted the ruin’The author on His Dark Materials, its follow-up trilogy, and the ‘total failure’ that is BrexitSat Oct 12 2019 - 05:00
