Earth Sonnet: Mel Mercier’s vast soundscape of poetry and music sticks in the mind long after the performance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’
Mel Mercier
Live Collision develops a new kind of festival in response to Covid-19
The coronavirus outbreak forced a rethink for the cutting-edge arts festival – with intriguing results
Lankum: The Livelong Day review – A fierce and fragile masterpiece
Lankum march to the beat of their own tune too: in all its anarchic glory
How It Is (Part 2): Beckettian murmurs in the existential mud
Theatre review: Judy Hegarty Lovett directs Gare St Lazare Ireland in a world premiere
The Small Things: Blood and violence and love, but no chemistry
Review: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the cold
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the 2019 winners are . . .
Cillian Murphy and Sarah Morris win main acting awards
The Irish Times 22nd Irish Theatre Awards: Villainy triumphs in tales for our times
Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours
Mel Mercier: ‘When I work in theatre, I often think that it’s like painting’
Composer’s new album ‘Testament’ aims to meld disparate musical works
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: all this year’s nominees
After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories
The Irish Times view on the death of Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a visionary explorer
Diverse musical collaborations revealed the pianist, composer and educationalist as truly a musical conquistador
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin funeral to be held in Co Clare on Monday
Pioneering musician had a ‘fearless sense of exploration’, says president
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin: a man of energy, joie de vivre, vision and charisma
President said pioneering musician, composer and academic 'fearless sense of exploration'
Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, acclaimed musician and composer, dies at 67
Founder of Irish World Academy of Music was one of Ireland’s best-known composers
The Numbered review: an interrogation of our futile anxiety over death
Elias Canetti’s play presents a world where everyone knows the age at which they’ll die
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Far Away review: Spike Island becomes a dystopia once again
Caryl Churchill’s short, brutal play is brilliantly realised
How to dance the undanceable music of Tommy Potts
Former Riverdancer Colin Dunne takes on challenge of ‘The Liffey Banks’ album
Sacrifice at Easter review: From the bizarre to the beautiful
Cork’s Midsummer Festival’s centrepiece is a triumph
Behind the ramparts: Pat McCabe’s play set in a world of its own
Corcadorca’s latest production, ‘Sacrifice at Easter’, is set in Cork’s 17th-century Elizabeth Fort and the play is as much about the site as the script
Feathers review: Dancing in a vast Beckettian anywhere | Tiger Dublin Fringe
A great collaboration between composer Mel Mercier and choreographer John Scott
A glorious gamelan with a distinctive Irish accent
What attracted Iarla Ó Lionáird, Duke Special and Julie Feeney to collaborate with Cork Gamelan Ensemble?
Review: A Girl is a Half-Formed Thing
To adapt Eimear McBride’s unconventional book can’t have been easy, but they’ve pulled it off
Clifden Arts Festival opens in north Connemara
Tribute to composer Seán Ó Riada and Druid Theatre productions among highlights
Flying cows, spiralling elves and spicy feet among Baboró festival events in Galway
Clifden and Music For Galway programmes also published
Desire Under the Elms
Nineteenth-century New England comes closer to home in Corn Exchange’s austerely beautiful production of Eugene O’Neill’s tragedy
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