Producer Anne Clarke on experiencing live performance for first time since pandemic

January’s best new books help kids start the new year with laughter and emotional release

Matthew Baker thrillingly explores bleak patriotism with pulse of capitalism

Sara Keating selects the best books for the smallest stockings

On its 25th anniversary, cultural centre for children has more than 14,000 virtual engagements

Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format

A CD will be given to schools across Connacht and Munster as part of a teaching pack that includes videos introducing children to (...)

Book review: Jonathan Coe’s usual cohort of fans may be bemused by the inconsistent style and tone

From Christmas themes to more universal themes of love, loss and mismatched sisters

Federico Julián González’s effortlessly engaging solo performance is personal but also has deep political resonance

The setting at IMMA – the scope of sky and the breadth of landscape – brings to life a new theatrical version of Kavanagh’s poem

The children’s author on Savage Her Reply, a reworking of the Children of Lir

Dublin Theatre Festival: Audience members meet through a guided phone call about their lives

Dublin Fringe Festival: Recorded album would help find wider audience for family-friendly repertoire

Plus new titles from Eve McDonnell, Carlie Sorosiak and Sophy Henn

Dublin Fringe Festival: Caitríona Ní Mhurchú uses her past as prompt for philosophical exploration of nature of time

Dublin Fringe Festival: Interesting ideas get lost amidst the casual ‘improvised’ banter of interview format

Changing Room explores the inner life of a man verging on change – a timely Covid-19 era work

Dublin Fringe Festival asked them to create a new work and Malaprop Theatre jumped at the chance

Dublin Theatre Festival 2020: Live performance is more important than ever, says Willie White

Adapting her play for Zoom was ‘probably the hardest thing I have ever done’

A Japanese mentor helped to inspire Conor Hanratty’s online short play War Paint

DIY stagecraft and theatrical invention get Tuam performer out under Tilt of the Sky

Unadoptable children and plenty of tigers feature in this collection of adventures

Viv Groskop sheds light on how personal readings of books can shift with time

Drama is fine online, but the deep art thrill needs innovative collective experience spaces

Adventures and mysteries abound in this month’s releases for younger readers

Howie the Rookie at The Lock Inn is running online on Wednesday nights until June 10th

Raven Smith’s flashy literary style glitters with dense detail but little of substance

The coronavirus outbreak forced a rethink for the cutting-edge arts festival – with intriguing results

The bestselling children’s author on making sure her fantasies are grounded in reality

Seaside tales full of magic and mystery, and a bear looking for chocolate cake

Set in Galway Airport, the audience is led to an understanding of how Gaeilge evolved

A celebration of Irish crystallographer Kathleen Lonsdale’s achievements

Plus books from Gareth P. Jones, Kristin Roskifte, Yoko Tanaka and Noelle Smit

Play will be live-streamed to cinemas in March in a first for an Irish production

Smock Alley’s new work showcase features 85 performance pieces on stage

Theatre review: Jody O’Neill’s timely new play has a wide emotional register

A family-friendly Humperdinck’s Hansel and Gretel aims to draw in children

Plus Two Bears, A House Without Walls, Lost, Agent Zaiba Investigates, Demelza and the Spectre Detectors

Taking the role of a woman who kills her children is not easy with children of your own

Catch the final dates of the well-travelled and well-received production of TRAD

Shaun Dunne’s new play Restoration examines the tensions embedded in social work

From the epic to the intimate, 2019 was a year of outstanding Irish theatre

Thirty years after Under the Hawthorn Tree, the author has written a Famine story for adults

In the 1990s Druid passed on The Lieutenant of Inishmore – the political temperature is different now

Ronan Fitzgibbon’s Blackwater Babble and Irene Kelleher’s Gone Full Havisham

Gemma Kane’s debut play 48 sees the human side of the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire

Stories of a lost cat, a lost bird and friendships in moments of hardship and difficulty

Shows include mass physical therapy to theatrical portraits of minds under siege

Chekhov, McDonagh and O’Casey to be staged, along with newcomers to Irish scene

Room on the Broom and Buddy the Elf aim to please over the holiday season

Abbey Theatre play’s spiritual undertones feel appropriate to Christmas time

Well That’s What I Heard explores class divisions; Mamma Mia! explores Abba hits

Plus our reviews of all the best Christmas pantos – and the ones to avoid

Meet Daryn Crosbie and the colourful crew behind the Gaiety panto

Plus new titles from Abi Elphinstone, Shirley Hughes and Natasha Mac a’Bháird

A ‘radio play within a play’ production; and an annual tradition at the Lyric in Belfast

Our selection of festive events around Ireland right through to the new year

Disabled artist Ian Parker has just illustrated a children’s book about a disabled character

Des Keogh and Rosaleen Linehan stage a reunion; and SoloSirens comes to Tallaght

Cal McCrystal has worked as a comedy adviser – from Paddington to One Man, Two Guvnors – and now comes to Dublin to direct Lennox (...)

Rory Gleeson’s Blood in the Dirt, and the Bockety World of Henry Bucket

Selina Cartmell’s ambitious Gate production is both intimate and involving

Plus new books on children who changed the world, the art of protest and time zone travel tales

Lisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín discuss working together on 'Pale Sister' a new piece of theatre based on the story of Antigone

Picture recipe book offers an imaginative way to explore world cuisines with kids

Baboró arts festival in Galway will bring 14 theatre companies to perform for children

Dublin Theatre Festival: This perfectly paced production for ages eight and up retells the Irish folk tale for a new audience

The Children of Lir , The Fate of Fausto , Scúnc Agus Smúirín, The Ghouls of Howlfair

The author on His Dark Materials, its follow-up trilogy, and the ‘total failure’ that is Brexit

Dublin Theatre Festival: Bronks stages a powerful, politically charged account of the Beslan massacre

Dublin Theatre Festival: Nilaja Sun plays three generations of characters with ease

Dublin Theatre Festival: Justin Butcher serves as an energetic guide along the Roman roads out of Europe

Dublin Theatre Festival: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new dance production is 90 minutes of ritualised ecstasy

Dublin Theatre Festival: Dermot Bolger’s social drama offers a window into history, but may struggle with contemporary audiences

Dublin Fringe Festival: The parodic format is entertaining but tests an audience’s patience

Dublin Fringe Festival: The capital is underwater in this enlightening and confronting look at climate change

Catherine O’Flynn has a debut children’s novel called Lori and Max

Dublin Fringe Festival: The victories and tragedies of Mark Smith recounted through interview and performance

Dublin Fringe Festival: Much to enjoy in this ambitious production, which merges ancient myth with modern life

Dublin Fringe Festival: Vickey Curtis and Áine O’Hara practice their own version of inclusivity

Dublin Fringe Festival: This love letter to sauce delights in innuendo and provokes hysterics

Dublin Fringe Festival: Playful encounters with bowler hats, water wings and a stick bring hilarious results

Dublin Fringe Festival: Spittle takes to the pulpit with confidence as she rakes over her past

The playwright comes full circle with the Irish premiere of Hecuba at Project Arts Centre

Making documentary theatre about his life has given the actor his first opportunity to tell his own story

Plus a visual treat that doubles as an accessible parable about anxiety

An expressionistic form-bending film, giving an insight into the process and product of stage design

Humorous story gives an entirely different perspective on the much-maligned spider

For the creator of the Tom Gates character, reader’s imagination is as important as her own in the books

Narwhal: Unicorn of the Sea by Ben Clanton, Thomas Taylor’s Malamander, Abi Elphinstone’s Rumblestar and A Girl Called Justice by (...)

Richard Seabrooke, the man behind the upcoming three-day Kaleidoscope festival, believes that cultural experiences can fire young (...)

Swings and roundabouts are not as important as freedom to experiment and take risks

A network, The Mothership Project, aims to develop supports for artists with children

A celebration of the natural world from Nicola Skinner and delightful illustrations by Angela Brooksbank

Siblings Chris and Lynn Haughton are combining their commitment to ethical and sustainable design, and their love for the sea, to (...)

How do you approach work that dances so dangerously with ideas of political correctness?

Students are getting access to classical music with a little help from Whistleblast Quartet