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Choreographer Áine Stapleton will premiere a dance film installation, Somewhere in the Body, at this year’s Dublin Dance Festival. Photograph: José Antonio Muñoz Somewhere in the Body: shining a light on the real Lucia Joyce
  • Michael Seaver
  • May 14, 2022

Choreographer Áine Stapleton has spent eight years exploring Joyce’s artistry

Constellations. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Constellations: A what-if rom-com with too many parallel universes
  • Chris McCormack
  • May 12, 2022

The concept is familiar, but ultimately the multiple narratives don’t deliver

Nish Kumar: ‘You have to take charge of your own mental health’ Nish Kumar: ‘The Conservative government in Britain are cultural vandals’
  • Shilpa Ganatra
  • May 11, 2022

The comedian on dealing with hate and why Britain’s public broadcasting is under siege

James Hindman in What Doesn’t Kill You. Photograph: Andrea Phox What Doesn’t Kill You is heartwarming but Quilt is disjointed
  • Derek Byrne
  • May 10, 2022

Stage review: Two plays at the Dublin Gay Theatre Festival

Dancers performing Siguifin, for which French choreographer Amala Dianor has brought together three choreographers and nine dancers from Mali, Senegal and Burkino Faso in a collaboration that merges styles and nations. ‘Sometimes I have no idea of what the outcome will be. We just lose ourselves’
  • Michael Seaver
  • May 7, 2022

Choreographer Amala Dianor on his Dublin show that breaks down boundaries of dance

Jamie O’Neill, Riley Carter and Ross O’Donnellan in Amy Conroy’s Luck Just Kissed You Hello, directed by Wayne Jordan. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh Luck Just Kissed You Hello: What is it to be a man?
  • Sara Keating
  • May 6, 2022

Ideals of masculinity found wanting in Amy Conroy’s play

The Gate Theatre is one of Ireland’s largest producing theatres and plays a critical role in the Irish cultural landscape. Photograph: Leah Farrell/RollingNews.ie ‘Beacon for change’: The Gate Theatre announces new leadership team
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • May 5, 2022

Róisín McBrinn takes over as artistic director and Colm O’Callaghan as executive director

From left, Hazel Clifford, Robbie O’Connor, Gillian McCarthy and Michael Glenn Murphy, the cast of Our Little World. Children’s theatre at a garden oasis in Dublin’s North Strand
  • Sara Keating
  • May 4, 2022

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

Sorcha Furlong and Annette Flynn in Curiosity, a light-hearted show about sexuality Dublin Gay Theatre Festival: Comedic explorations of identity and authenticity
  • Derek Byrne
  • May 3, 2022

Amanda Brunker’s Curiosity and Brian Merriman’s Straight Acting kick off the festival

Anything Goes comes to Dublin. ‘Has there ever been a musical with so many hits?’ Anything Goes comes to Dublin: ‘It’s a chance to see something big and noisy and joyous’
  • Deirdre Falvey
  • May 3, 2022

Kathleen Marshall and Simon Callow on eye-popping new production of classic musical

People assume it is Protestants laughing at jokes about Catholics and vice versa...
  • May 1, 2022

TALKTIME: Des Dillon, Scottish playwright, speaks to EOIN BUTLER

Domhnall Gleeson in Medicine. He is a Best Actor nominee for his performance in the show. Photograph: Jess Shurte/Edinburgh International Festival The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: And the nominees are...
  • Sara Keating
  • April 30, 2022

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

Penn Jillette and Teller: ‘Magicians were the people who came on TV and got in the way of me seeing The Who and Led Zeppelin,’ says Penn. ‘If you look like Penn & Teller, you have to have the best magic trick ever seen’
  • Patrick Freyne
  • April 30, 2022

‘Houdini used deception to help people recognise the difference between fraud and reality’

Patrick Martins as M’Closky in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’ An Octoroon. Photograph: Ros Kavanagh An Octoroon: Theatre’s past crimes rewritten as a magnificent masterpiece
  • Chris McCormack
  • April 27, 2022

Centuries of obscene caricature, is delivered as both confrontational and comedic

Mufutau Yusuf recconnects with his Yoruba rootes through dance. Photograph: Nate Palmer/The New York Times In Lagos, dancing was life. In Ireland, it was a career. In New York, it made him a star
  • Brian Seibert
  • April 25, 2022

Mufutau Yusuf is to debut his first hourlong solo show at the Irish Arts Center in New York

Aisling Kearns, Juliette Crosbie and Roseanna Purcell in the World Premiere of Maeve Binchy’s Circle of Friends. Photograph: Ste Murray Circle of Friends: Fine adaptation of Maeve Binchy classic
  • Conor Capplis
  • April 25, 2022

Warm, moving and often hilarious 1950s-set story still has resonance today

Rex Ryan and his wife Migle: the couple founded Glass Mask Theatre in 2018, with the exclusive ambition of staging new writing. Photograph: Tom Honan Rex Ryan: My dad Gerry Ryan ‘wasn’t like other parents’
  • Sara Keating
  • April 23, 2022

‘Theatre is a kind of church for me,’ says the actor and writer with entertainment in his blood

Triggered by anxieties and missed opportunities, the play’s beatboxers eventually become monsters themselves. Photograph: Joyce Nicholls Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster: Modern horrors presented as thrilling gig theatre
  • Chris McCormack
  • April 21, 2022

Who can think of a previous play where the Gate Theatre’s audiences danced at their seats?

The play of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time has been watched by more than five million people ‘It was a novel that was read by everyone’
  • Tara Brady
  • April 21, 2022

The 10th anniversary tour of The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, adapted from the novel by Mark Haddon, comes to Dublin’s Bord Gáis Energy

The cast of the new production of Over The Bridge Over the Bridge, once a bridge too far for the Belfast establishment, is back
  • Connal Parr
  • April 18, 2022

Sam Thompson’s classic play about sectarianism in Belfast’s shipyards is back in Dublin

The Big Crying. Photograph: Rahi Rezvani ‘Dance is a potential remedy for some of the chaos of the world right now’
  • Christie Seaver
  • April 16, 2022

Emily Molnar of Nederlands Dans Theater wants to use dance as a beacon of hope

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