Patrick Mason

Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August

Highlights of Kilkenny Arts Festival announced for the medieval city

Director Patrick Mason ’s light touch creates the happy illusion of a non-interventionist approach

Director Patrick Mason on getting to the heart of Mozart’s ‘The Marriage of Figaro’, Irish National Opera’s new production

Music Current 2018 offers a showcase of contemporary Irish electronic music

Whelan has moved from wind section to the podium as artistic director of the Irish Baroque Orchestra

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

Chamber music at the NCH; Irish National Opera company celebrates 2018 programme with 12 top singers; and Russian conductor Stanislav Kochanovsky debuts with RTÉ NSO

Company’s first production, Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, to be directed by Patrick Mason

Long career on stage and screen recalled at funeral of actor who died aged 87

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

Eight Irish writers’ monologues create a moving theatrical tapestry

‘It’s not a historical piece. This is theatre.’ Here’s how Signatories took shape

The playwright’s ambition was to create a theatre that was serious in its reflections on Northern Ireland’s political crisis, while being exuberantly theatrical

Theatre project will mark Rising centenary with production in Kilmainham Gaol

Wilde and Shaw, who have similar plays on at the Gate and Abbey, had a prickly relationship

As his parade of double lives spills out of the closet, Oscar Wilde peers down on a production that is almost entirely at his service

He stole the show in Sherlock and is about to break into Bond – but it’s Sea Wall that has had the biggest impact on his work

Daphne Carroll: November 15th, 1923 - February 8th, 2015

Hugo Hamilton’s nuanced first World War drama looks at the family fallout after the return of an injured sailor

How does Brian Friel’s 1979 play about a Troubles-era dysfunctional family hold up?

‘Such a pleasant man you could forget he was a genius’

Extra Peacock shows possible if theatre revenues improve

Huge response from readers about family members histories

Frank McGuinness’s new play, The Hanging Gardens, and Arimathea, the novel he thought he should write as research for it, draw deeply on his experience of growing up in a threatening, oppressive Ireland

The best of Frank McGuinness

Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person

Everyone has a double identity in Bernard Shaw’s play. So does the Gate’s new production