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Processing trauma: this week’s Dublin Theatre Festival highlights

Us/Them and Burgerz take very different approaches to transforming trauma, the first through matter-of-fact playfulness, and the second through the prism of fast food

Sat Oct 05 2019 - 07:00

Dublin Theatre Festival gets its history on

Whether it’s looking back or casting forward, this year’s event is rooted firmly in the now

Sat Sept 21 2019 - 05:00

The week’s best plays: Playboy of the Western World and Faultline

Dublin Theatre Festival productions examine Irish theatre and history from new angles

Fri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21

2019 cultural highlights: You’ll laugh, you’ll picnic, you’ll plough

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

Thu Dec 27 2018 - 05:00

Crowdsourcing the drama: this week’s must-see theatre productions

‘The Fever’ pulls the audience into the action and The End of Eddy pulls few punches

Sat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00

Paula Murrihy: ‘You’ve got to find and follow your road ’

Irish mezzo-soprano on her unusual route into a singing career and her upcoming role as Judith, the fourth wife of Bluebeard

Sat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00

Theatre of the week: Misogynistic therapy, and a neglected Sean O’Casey play

Two new productions at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival re-examine old art works

Sat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00

Belinda McKeon: 'I’m interested in the deal-making among couples'

The writer on reimagining Henrik Ibsen's Nora for a modern generation

Thu Aug 03 2017 - 05:00

Cultural dates for your 2017 diary

New year promises a richness of fare across all artistic forms in all part of the country

Sat Dec 31 2016 - 05:00

Roddy Doyle does Mozart: ‘I’m a recent convert to opera’

The author has transported ‘Don Giovanni’ to Dublin for the Opera Theatre Company

Sat Mar 19 2016 - 01:00

What's on: The festival guide for 2016

Start planning this year’s holidays and weekends away in Ireland with our guide to the best arts events and festivals throughout the country

Sat Jan 09 2016 - 06:00

Dublin Theatre Festival opens with 28 shows in store

Among this year's highlights is the Irish premiere of ‘The Night Alive’ by Conor McPherson in the Gaiety

Thu Sept 24 2015 - 15:37

We have lift-off: Irish cultural calendar 2015

A year of Yeats. The return of the Gathering. The zaniness of TedFest. The muckiness of the National Ploughing Championships. The musical magic of Electric Picnic. The spectacular scenery of Earagail Arts Festival. And much more. Consider yourself told

Wed Dec 31 2014 - 03:00