Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Master classes, talks, public interviews and recitals in Cork, Kilkenny and Galway

INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore

‘Advice from a Caterpillar’ is a depiction on solo bass clarinet of the conversation in ‘Alice in Wonderland’ between Alice and the caterpillar

Classical music highlights for the coming week

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer

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

From the scandalous opera by Thomas Adès to new work by Crash Ensemble

Opera is becoming ‘sexy again’ and Irish National Opera aims to capitalise on the new interest by bringing opera to the people

New Music Dublin to open with Crash Ensemble on the front steps of the National Concert Hall at sunset

Launch of new company ‘a golden moment’ and signals commitment to Irish creative talent

A day of celebration and an opera marathon mark birth of a new approach to opera

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

Schubert: Dreaming the Sublime, Giulio Cesare, and Rediscovering Irish State Musick

The experience of the festival has been like that of a child of warring parents

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend

Syrian conflict and mother and baby homes among political themes in the two events

Composer Hanns Eisler wrote the `Hollywood Songbook' while in enforced exile from Germany

The ‘Crashlands’ series of concerts will see Crash Ensemble perform in beautiful, remote locations around the country

Smart money still on the Wide Open Opera/Opera Theatre Company bid to become the council’s new major opera supplier

Galway International Arts Festival marks its 40th birthday with biggest ever line-up

Dublin International Piano Competition winner 2012 Nikolay Khozyainov on form

Of all new music, large-scale works with words travel least freely internationally

The upside-down provision of opera in Ireland neglects works people want to hear most

Composing the Island festival is huge, but it neglects women and living composers under 30

Sorrow and loss continue to hold us in greater thrall than the idea of a new order in the offing

Michael Dervan: Two evenings of music and words as part of Ireland 2016 got me thinking about the links that were missed

For their collaboration commemorating the Rising at the NCH, Colm Tóibín and Donnacha Dennehy have focused on the uneasy time when Casement and Conrad shared quarters in the Belgian colony

The event also featured video tributes to Waking the Feminists and the year in theatre

‘DruidShakespeare’ wins five awards, including Best Production and Best Director

After a year of theatre, hundreds of shows and days of deliberation, here are the nominees for the 2015 Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

New Music Dublin has suffered numerous abuses in its short life and has been postponed for 2016. Can it be fixed?

As always, the shows being staged encompass the weird, the wonderful and the wacky

Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival