A Midsummer Night’s Dream at Blackwater Valley Opera Festival 2025: Vocally sure singing, but has a revamp muted Britten’s orchestral magic?
Review: Lismore Castle’s stage area has been transformed, but accompanying changes may not be ideal
Barry McGovern
Actor
From dying in the mud of Game of Thrones to the whatness of existence
Barry McGovern’s solo-show adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Watt is returning to the stage
‘Commitments’ star Johnny Murphy dies at 72
Actor played Estragon in the long-running Gate Theatre production of ‘Waiting for Godot’
Kilkenny Arts Festival: Fast, fun and unpredictable
‘People are going on a journey - whether they come for a day or for the whole festival’
Tributes paid to chef and critic Paolo Tullio at funeral
Humanist ceremony held in crowded Examination Hall at Trinity College Dublin
Review: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Shakespeare isn’t getting any younger, and here his Midsummer action finds itself wandering the halls of a nursing home
Tributes paid at funeral of mother of Dublin acting family, Daphne Brennan
‘Strumpet City’ actor described as a woman with great love for words and family
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
Acoustic adventures at four Irish venues ranging from the muffled to the magical
At four recent performances given in spaces not designed for music, the contrasting fortunes were profound
Phelim Donlon died after weeks ‘precious with moments of sadness and grace’
Former Arts Council drama officer encouraged women ‘to aim higher and go further’
Film-maker refuses to let Motor Neuron Disease stop him directing first feature
Simon Fitzmaurice, who screened a short film at the Sundance Film Festival just before his diagnosis, is halfway through shooting ‘My Name is Emily’ on location in Co Wicklow
Culture Shock: Beckett’s Irish women finally have a distinctly Irish voice
Lisa Dwan gives astonishing performances of ‘Not I’, ‘Footfalls’ and ‘Rockaby’
Review: The Price
This isn’t Arthur Miller’s finest work, but this Gate production doesn’t leave the audience short changed
Even Beckett’s playing the game of thrones
HBO’s bloody, pervy fantasy series has begun tapping some unlikely literary sources
Gate Theatre makes its German debut with two Samuel Beckett productions
Audiences at the Ruhrfestspiele festival identify with Michael Gambon and Barry McGovern’s takes on absurdity
Ballybeg birthday: Brian Friel turns 85
With work of such consistent quality, it is difficult to settle on a single masterpiece: Friel has given us some incredible memories
Downloading ‘The Dead’ – an online journey into Joyce
A new app of the classic story brings pre-first World War Dublin to life
Funeral Mass celebrates ‘the beauty of Seamus Heaney...in his being’
He had many of the qualities of an ‘identikit portrait of the ideal Christian’
‘Don’t be afraid’ - funeral told of Heaney ’s last words
Hundreds of figures from worlds of arts, entertainment and politics attend moving Dublin service
Long distance warning
Ibsen’s whistle blower brings us worrying news from Norway via Arthur Miller’s America
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Common Ground
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
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