The Alternative wins Fishamble’s project, which seeks to buck trend for shorter productions

The conductor and the RTÉ NSO show Haydn a good time; and Ó Riada’s score for Mise Éire leaves me cold

Waterford boasts strong connections to crime novelist Raymond Chandler

The Show in a Bag series is one of the strongest facets in the Tiger Dublin Fringe. So what’s the secret of its theatrical success?

The latest show from Galway’s Blue Teapot, which plays with the acronym ID, doesn’t make intellectual disability its only form of identification

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Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue

The Winners

Announcing the ’Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards shortlist for 2013. Terrible financial circumstances did not limit the diversity of productions, from knockout operas to one-man shows

Help the writer deliver the best play possible. Get the basics right early. Do very little for a successful show, then claim the credit. Welcome to the tricks of the dramaturg’s trade

The past week saw operatic premieres in Dublin by Raymond Deane and, of all people, Antonin Dvorak

Rise Productions’ update of the Tír na nÓg myth is a mixed bag

A couple of stalled lives discover a whirl of motion in Fishamble’s charming two step

When Alma Mahler, the widow of composer Gustav Mahler, broke up with the artist Oskar Kokoschka, he made an anatomically accurate doll of her, and that's inspired Raymond Deane's third opera