Dua Lipa, Stephen Rea and Emma Dabiri: This week’s unmissable online events
Plus Marian Keyes, Frank McGuinness, Mick Fleetwood and the National Symphony Orchestra
Darklands: Dublin gangland never looked so dazzling, queasy and unapologetically violent
TV review: MMA fighting and gang crime intersect in Virgin Media’s exciting new show
Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again
Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised
The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
Wilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both ways
Review: Pentecost
Stewart Parker’s play, set during the Ulster Workers’ Council strike in 1974, has moments of transcendence, but at times seems to be an empty exchange between ciphers
A Particle of Dread (Oedipus Variations)
Sam Shepard’s brilliant new version of Oedipus Rex for Derry’s Field Day folds Greek myth into an ageless Americana
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