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Carmen review: Ballet Ireland’s dancers show their intuition as artists in a formidable production

Gate Theatre unveils 2024 season, including world premiere of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars

Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night

The Abbey: Shadow of a controversy lingers at Ireland’s national theatre

The United States vs Ulysses review: A clever courtroom drama entertainingly brought to life

Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness

Luca Truffarelli: ‘We are using immigrants as slaves, to keep the market running. But what is the cost?’

Dwelling review: A compelling portrait of the unease of living in a digital age

'We have everything here': take a tour of the Abbey Theatre prop warehouse

Coffins, Alan Rickman’s desk and Seán O’Casey’s pram: Inside the curious world of the Abbey Theatre’s props warehouse

Swan Lake at Cork Opera House: Flawless in dance and dedication to vivid artistry

Alan Foley on the perils of staging princess-free ballet: ‘When we did Giselle I lost €55,000. People just didn’t come and see it’

‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan

La Ciociara review: The audience roars its approval as the curtain falls on this seat-shiftingly vivid opera

L’Aube Rouge review: One of those unfortunate works in which problems stand out more clearly than strengths

Zoraida di Granata review: This early Donizetti, performed in its original form for the first time, is quite an engaging ride

Rhino review: Ionesco reimagined in the virtual worlds of gaming and automaton-like avatars

Kévin Coquelard: ‘I loved the madness. You could just throw yourself on the floor and scream’

Irish dance companies are an international success. But dance artists in Ireland struggle to earn a living

‘I’m quite a dork... I enjoy making silly fun’: The bilingual comedian on a mission to ‘give everyone in Ireland a focal’

‘It’s pretty much my life savings’: A former punk, a Frank and Walter and a Ford factory musical

One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV review: An exhilarating, raucous meditation on grief, and on life

Burnt Out review: In Gary Mitchell’s new play, the destructive past resurfaces in the blink of an eye

In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder

Fall and Float review: A charming, playful, skilful show for young audiences, full of discovery, play and balloons

This Solution review: Choreography and carnality collide spectacularly

Powerful Trouble review: Junk Ensemble’s exploration is sharp in its message, wonderfully rambling in its telling

No Woman Is an Island review: A potted history of social attitudes to solitude that is not to be missed

Lost Lear director Dan Colley: ‘Go with a person’s reality. Step into their world’

Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White: Why I had to make One Song this year’s closing show

Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey

History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past

Ironbound review: wit and humour in bleak portrayal of difficult life

An Irish man signs up to make gay porn, then wants to change his mind. This Solution is about his experience

Distillation review: This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs, writes Eanna Ní Lamhna

The Boy Who Talked to Dogs review: A challenging Irish childhood becomes a lively, eclectic stage show

Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individuals

She Was a Friend of Someone Else review: A clear-eyed commentary on the fight for abortion rights in Europe

The Lion King in Dublin review: Even after a quarter-century, Julie Taymor’s musical is still revolutionary

Somewhere Out There You review: The enjoyable sweep of a head-spinning romance

Warrior review: A heartfelt, poignant Star Trek-tinted cancer-survivor musical

The Loved Ones review: Complex, uncomfortable stories brought to life in a refreshing, deceptively simple way

Thommas Kane Byrne: ‘There’s a reason most of the roles I’m offered are gangland stories. I’m so sick of it’

Faust review: Duke Kim, Nicholas Brownlee and Jennifer Davis star in an excellently cast INO production

To Be a Machine (Version 2.0) review: This compelling, paradoxical production is more than a clever meta-exercise

Isla review: Confrontation becomes a mirror in this poignant production

Musical adaptation of Live Aid set to premiere on West End stage

The Dead House review: A funeral, a community and a precise, imposing Martin Beanz Warde

The day Éamon de Valera cried in the Dáil: ‘The world is looking at us now’

Gary Mitchell: ‘I physically went into hiding because of the terror I saw in my children’s eyes’

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BP Fallon on his photo of Shane MacGowan and Sinéad O’Connor ‘having a vibe’ in 1988

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Limerick hurler Kyle Hayes ‘can expect custodial sentence’ after conviction for violent disorder

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Court grants €146m judgment against owner of Co Kerry hotel and islands

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It was wrong of Leo Varadkar to send a servant of the State to Ben Dunne’s funeral

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Chinese prisoner’s ID card apparently found in lining of Regatta coat

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