Artists and arts workers have been left in desperate straits by the sudden shutdown

Review: Confidence permeates opening night of opera famed for its massiveness

Characters are given space to sing and shine in impressive updating of a comic classic

Director-conductor John O’Brien has taken an adventurous approach

The moors of Emily Brontë’s novel are raging and unruly, peaceful and polite. Is the new Gate adapation torn between two worlds?

As the Gate presents a fresh adaptation of Emily Brontë’s classic of passion (or hysterical excess, depending on your outlook), a new Heathcliff and Catherine get to grips with our expectations and their interpretations

Irish Youth Opera has begun its mission with a slick, updated version of Britten’s opera

Set designers have a crucial influence over the musical experience of an opera – here’s the evidence

Michael West’s new play at the Abbey is a grimly amusing and deeply unsettling exploration of marriage

Ibsen meets Jerry Springer in Carmel Winters’s new play, which features infidelity, revenge and a bitterly disintegrating family

Can Shakespeare’s drama of a dethroned English King be turned into an Irish history lesson?