Sara Keating

Sara Keating

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Sara Keating, a contributor to The Irish Times, is an arts and features writer.

Thrown a LifeLine: ‘Every week there was another death. Everybody was asking the same thing: What can we do about the river?’

In response to Galway’s high suicide rate, more than 150 participants will tightrope-walk across the Corrib this month, to help turn it from a site of grief to a place of creativity and celebration

The Last Return set to explore the tension of queuing at Galway Arts Festival

Director Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stage

Party Scene: The buzz and burn-out of drug-enhanced sexual encounters

Review: Philip Connaughton and Phillip McMahon have collaborated on this Thisispopbaby production

Backstage with Cirque du Soleil as the show takes flight again

Sara Keating goes behind the scenes in Split of the Montreal-based troupe’s latest show

The Tin Soldier: A visual and technical delight

The aesthetic pleasures of this production more than compensate for an occasional lack of narrative clarity

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022: All the winners revealed

Six months ago Ireland’s theatre world was in lockdown. Tonight felt like a big win for the entire creative community

Swansong: A good starting point for a meaningful conversation about death

Review: Simple clarity runs through the conversation of the characters in a beautiful fairytale

Party Scene: dance theatre explores chemsex scene in Dublin and beyond

Philip Connaughton and Phillip McMahon on their latest ThisIsPopBaby project

The Cavalcaders: unnervingly upbeat drama will have you singing

Druid’s new production of Billy Roche’s play hits the right notes

Blackbird: A tense and riveting two-hander

Andrew Flynn’s production brings a stark moral clarity

Climate change: ‘How can art inform people without depressing them?’

Future Limerick, Ireland’s first climate arts festival brings together like-minded creatives

Luck Just Kissed You Hello: What is it to be a man?

Ideals of masculinity found wanting in Amy Conroy’s play

Has a Ukrainian child recently joined your child’s class? Here’s the book to read

A new picturebook places the experience of forced migration at its centre

Children’s theatre at a garden oasis in Dublin’s North Strand

Actor Owen Roe and his wife Michele Forbes on their new interactive drama

The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are...

Judges reflect on an unprecedented two years of struggle and innovation for the industry