US president has reduced his tax bill with range of questionable measures

Composer Brian Irvine’s new opera focuses on JFK’s intellectually disabled sister

It’s a new day in South Africa in Yael Farber’s new version of Miss Julie. Has anything really changed?

The Casus quartet’s show would be very low-key if it wasn’t so jaw-dropping

Olwen Fouéré’s performance gives voice to the river in James Joyce’s unfathomable ‘Finnegans Wake’. It’s sink-or-swim time

In between making indie music and taking flying lessons, the renaissance woman has turned her hand to opera. Her working life is as hard to keep up with as her conversation

South Africa’s intense society shows the best and worst of humanity, says Yael Farber. Can ‘Mies Julie’, her version of Strindberg’s class tragedy, escape apartheid?

Projections in the Absolut Gallery at the Galway Arts Festival’s use technology more commonly seen in gaming to build an eerie virtual world that allows viewers to explore the decline of a utopian ideal

John Gerrard, Howard Hodgkin and Richard Gilligan shine at Galway Arts Festival’s visual-arts strand, while Heneghan Peng’s giant wooden see-saw bench is a big hit

Two lovers with intellectual disability slip away to a hotel room in Christian O’Reilly’s finely balanced play for Blue Teapot. Do they need protection?

Everyone gets a second chance at love in Bruce Graham’s numbingly competent play

The mouse hero of Pat McCabe’s children’s story knows how to work a crowd. It’s just as well this production comes with its own onstage audience

Several new theatrical productions are asking audiences to stare at disabled people, and explore their loves, lives and issues

The dancers take centre stage in this Fabulous Beast take on Stravinsky’s work – to terrific effect