Timothée Chalamet take note: Ballet Ireland says students ‘are hammering down the doors’
The company’s Bold Moves programme features new works that incorporate Shakespeare, Barbra Streisand and Jeff Buckley
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Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake: Magical performance explains why show still enchants so many
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this ballet has earned its recognition as one of the most beloved Swan Lake interpretations of all time
Irish Swan Lake star Stephen Murray: ‘After the show you’re emotionally drained. Leaving it on the stage is a big challenge’
Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Matthew Bourne’s version of the ballet ushered in a groundbreaking new era in dance. After 30 years it’s as exhilarating, and demanding, as ever
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Mary Poppins review: A practically perfect masterclass in storytelling for the stage
Theatre: This thrilling Cameron Mackintosh-Disney show capitalises on PL Travers’s original story, which has so much more to offer than the films
Inside Anthropologie, the cult lifestyle store coming to Ireland
US fashion and interiors chain to open in Belfast – and add Irish designers to its mix
Paul McLoone: On My Culture Radar
The Undertones singer and Today FM DJ on the talent of Ruth Negga, following Fontaines DC and why Desert Island Discs works
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake review: Consummate storytelling
Extraordinary dancing unleashes the power and beauty of Tchaikovsky’s music
Adam Garcia: On My Culture Radar
Actor and dancer on the weird mind of Bill Bailey, the art scene in Berlin and the productions of Matthew Bourne
Matthew Bourne: A showman from his head to his toes
The choreographer’s Swan Lake has been upending convention, and thrilling audiences, for 25 years
The all-male ballet company defying stereotypes
Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo on subverting traditions and the importance of the right pair of shoes
Akram Khan’s ‘Giselle’ – an astonishing twist on a timeless classic
‘We represent bringing ballet to the widest’ possible audience, wherever they are, whatever their means’
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Mary Poppins review: this spoonful of sugar goes down brilliantly
Rather than staying close to Disney's 1964 musical, Julian Fellowes' adaptation goes back to PL Travers' books. The result is a Mary Poppins even the author would love
Sleeping Beauty: now with added vampires
Although it uses most of the Tchaikovsky music, Matthew Bourne’s gothic-flavoured reworking of the ballet is quite a departure from the original
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