One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish Christmas
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
Theatre: Ericka Roe is note perfect in Thommas Kane Byrne’s fabulous version of Dublin’s inner city
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ross Dungan’s darkly comic play blends live illustration and multimedia with the theatrical to explore the disturbing world of content moderation
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett
Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
The artist is heading a project that incorporates plants, fermentation and a small, queer community of growers
Theatre: There is not much of a narrative to this show, but that’s the point. The audience is kept on their toes by an animated and engaging cast
Theatre: Littered with pop culture, silly couch sex and dancing, Ultan Pringle’s script also tackles big themes
In Ciseach, the choreographer Catherine Young shows how, by following the paths of our ancestors, we can repair our relationship with the land
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?
Theatre: Brokentalkers are aware they occupy a rarefied zone. This encounter between Gary Keegan and Danny O’Mahony enjoyably sends up their approach
Dance: This new work by Lucia Kilger, created with Lina Andonovska and Ria Rehfuss, values coexistence over second-to-second interaction
Dance: Minseach’s unsettled structure reflects Davitt’s own hazy identity as an artist
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Veteran Irish comic brings a packed crowd to their knees more than once
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Throughout the hour there is no moralising, simply a portrayal of addiction
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: This show feels like a history of Ireland but also a heartfelt ode to a fading country
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Sharp, nuanced script rips along under Claire O’Reilly’s assured, quirky direction
Theatre: As the show’s facilitator asks, with chilling rhetorical resonance, would you rather ‘be a warrior in a garden or a gardener in a war?’
An exhibition of the late artist runs at the Coach House in Dublin Castle until March
Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival
Mark Rylance on his unlikely road to Hollywood stardom, and why Brits love an underdog
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Brokentalkers and Truscott’s fruitful collaboration feels like a direct response to #MeToo
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
Video: Rouzbeh Rashidi runs a society in Dublin to promote experimental films
Dublin city centre: If we want a vibrant creative life in our capital, we need to change how we support artists
Self-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanism
Even amid the pandemic, the festival is about ‘new pathways, inspiration and discovery’
Activities are curbed due to Covid-19, but there’s plenty of ways to keep kids occupied
The coronavirus outbreak forced a rethink for the cutting-edge arts festival – with intriguing results
The theatre director’s new show, Leaving, is a powerful departure for the returned emigre
New to the Parish: Federico Julián González arrived from El Salvador in 1998
The key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems facing artists
Her new work, Actress, is about a mother-daughter relationship in bohemian Dublin
NCFA says 72% of artists earn less than the minimum wage, 72% don’t have pension
The Decaste in Culture: The 'quarterisation' of our cities reached a ludicrous peak with derided Grafton Quarter
Text plays a tricky role in art – as descriptors or part of the exhibit
TV Review: Ireland’s street artists express their politics better in murals than in words
Pan Pan’s production doesn’t so much revivify Samuel Beckett’s play as submit to it
The cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevance
Artist Emily Aoibheann constantly feels the need to push herself into new ways of expressing her ideas
Dublin Theatre Festival: Raquel André has, to date, gathered together 245 strangers to manufacture and document the illusion of intimacy. Where will it all end?
Dublin Theatre Festival: In Marina Carr’s version of Hecuba, the scale of tragedy is made rivetingly intimate
Dublin Theatre Festival: Ray Scannell’s ambitious musical drama is performed with aplomb but lacks focus
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices