Inese Zandere, David LaRochelle, Karen McCrombie, Lucy Stranger and Jon Agee

The inaugural festival of arts offers workshops for singers, dancers and musicians

Lure your child back to the printed word with Alex Gardiner’s Mossbelly MacFearsome

Christmas Day is over, but there is still plenty to do with children before school restarts

Tamsin Lyons’s Ink and Light animation studio is bringing a message of mindfulness

Hugo’s spiritually benevolent message rings loudly in this immersive, cinematic staging

If you have had enough of the flashing lights of the panto, this is the show for you

A doubting Thomas, a young girl and a sheep save the day in our kids’ books round-up

Your one-stop Christmas events shop is here

The Christmas show’s sheer spectacle makes up for a few weaknesses in the plot

Children’s books: from wood mice and red squirrels to beetles and termites, there’s plenty of nature in these new releases

Ideas take shape when the mind is drifting, so give kids room ‘to let their minds wander’

A lonely Pooka, an invasion of evil teddy bears and a witch from the Louisiana swamp all feature for Halloween

Dublin Theatre Festival: Brendan Coyle stars in the Irish premiere of Conor McPherson’s 1997 play

Dublin Theatre Festival: Intimate snapshots of life in Dublin 15 pair actors with locals. The results are top-notch

Dublin Theatre Festival: The all-male ballet troupe blend dance and physical comedy

Work made for children used to be rare, but there's now a rich bounty of shows

Dublin Theatre Festival: The audience are stuck when a piece of theatre denies its characters humanity

Dublin Theatre Festival: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is refreshingly unconventional

Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead

Dublin Fringe Festival: Thommas Kane Byrne stars in his reinvention of the one-man show

Dublin Fringe Festival: This musical memoir of growing up gay in rural Ireland is sonically stirring but lacks focus

Dublin Fringe Festival: A few tweaks could give Christiane O’Mahony’s play a deservedly long life

Dublin Fringe Festival: Why should a woman need safety procedures when encountering men she doesn’t know?

Children’s fiction from Auxier, Burton, Doyle, Martin and Chambers

Christiane O'Mahony's new play Seahorse centres around an unlikely feminist icon

Dublin Fringe Festival: Olwen Fouéré’s Unwoman is stuck in perpetual parturition

Dublin Fringe Festival: Painful puns, silly dances, perfectly judged audience interaction

Authors’ imaginations run riot in this selection of children’s books

Decadent Theatre’s production draws out darkness of McDonagh’s Gothic work

‘Frnkstn’, at the Abbey Theatre, reanimates the monster for a new generation

Five Irish children’s books that will lead you on a summer family adventure

Children’s books: new stories from Eirlys Hunter, Ruth Quayle, Jarvis and Jo Simmons

Based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, this asks who was the Wicked Witch of the West?

An alien warrior, handling grief, and a boy who loves pairs are among this month’s highlights

Production at Carlow Arts Festival puts artists, disabled and non-disabled, on stage together

Children’s fiction covers all the basics from child-eating monsters, to nature and grief

The storyteller presents war, peace and the human condition through a lens of realism

Struggling with maths? Need to relax? Or just want adventure? These books cater for all

Roald Dahl’s novel may be 30 years old, but this adaptation from the Royal Shakespeare Company resonates chillingly

Sara Keating selects the best new books for children

From picture books to YA fiction, it’s a great time to be a girl who loves to read

This month sees Ireland’s national theatre playing in London, and its British equivalent coming to Dublin

Mythical beasts lurking in the ocean; an anxious panda bear; a lone wolf on the run; raggedy witches rustling through the trees; a(...)

In 2018, a diversity of Irish women’s voices will take their place on the national stage

Sara Keating selects the best new books for children

Wide Eyes Festival brings performing arts into the hearts of the very young

An education scheme is helping children see writers as living, breathing people rather than mythical beats

Mark O’Rowe’s latest play ‘The Approach’ was triggered by three women in his head

Frida Nilsson’s great Arctic tale unfolds packed ice and inky skies

Irish stars Lucy O’Byrne and Celine Byrne shine in the iconic story

Here’s our first look reviews at the early season shows

From the moral to the humorous, there’s plenty of seasonal books to choose from

A round-up of events for families and children during the festive season

These books for children of all ages are beautifully illustrated and touch on a number of issues

A new British Museum exhibit places Rowling’s fiction beside the cultural traditions that inspired it

There are no parents in ‘The Wonderling’, a stand-out debut by Mira Bartok

Sara Keating asks five debut authors appearing at this weekend’s 20th anniversary event five questions about their work

Sara Keating picks her favourites for children and young adults

What does it do girls’ ambition if they they are reduced to silent ciphers or pretty princesses? Several new books for young reade(...)

One new title is an instant classic from two giants of the genre

A collaboration between PJ Lynch and Ryan Tubridy serves up JFK’s visit with Swiss roll

Children are interested in the same ideas as adults, the director of ‘Jeramee, Hartleby and Oooglemore’ says. You just have to pre(...)

An initiative to help refugee children on the Italian island of Lampedusa is now a touring exhibition in Ireland

Dawn O’Porter’s novel about feminism in the age of social media will appeal to millennials

Derbhle Crotty and Denis Conway reach deep for this portrait of middle-aged despair

Harold Pinter’s vicious play is all about the oppressors. How can cruelty and civility sit so comfortably together?

Image enhances wordplay in two revamped classics and a multilingual haiku meditation

Judith Kerr, creator of the The Tiger Who Came to Tea and Mog picture-books, also wrote about escaping from the Nazi regime

Susie Lamb’s show ‘Horae’ asks whether an ancient tradition can be comprehensible to a 21st-century crowd

Disciples of a martyred leader hold fast to ‘fairytales and bullshit’ in John MacKenna’s stories

Katie Khan’s debut novel charts plight of lovers cast adrift in space from utopian home

An eerie tale set on a fictional Irish island casts a spell that never loosens its grip

Alexi app invites well-known authors and critics to choose favourite digital books

A huge encore and digital momentum add colour and noise but children might struggle to see anything fun about being an adult in th(...)

A fresh adaptation by Marina Carr offers an ensemble piece rather than a star vehicle and is all the better for it

From panto to ice skating and from circuses to concerts, here is your guide to the best children’s entertainment this winter

The invention at the heart of this show makes it an excellent way to introduce the spookiest of seasonal stories

The Gaiety delivers top-notch performances and production standards in a show that’s not afraid to take risks

Disney’s lawyers might want to challenge TheatreWorx to a dance off to settle their scores

To mark first anniversary of Waking The Feminists, Gender equality campaigners add 10 points to debate

The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years

Waking the Feminists slate theatre organisations for below-par gender equality record

‘A Game of Thrones: Enhanced Ebook’, ‘The Hobbit (Enhanced Edition)’, ‘Eoin Doherty and the Fixers’

Adaptation of Shakespeare has 17 cast members who have an intellectual disability

Cecelia Ahern’s fans will expect the development of an unlikely love affair and a happy ending; they will also get a study of a ra(...)

Sarah J Maas secured a publishing deal in 2008 and has published eight novels since

The tremendous ensemble cannot be faulted but the abundant musical numbers overpower the thin storyline

Hansel and Gretel as adults and a boy who befriends a stone are among the highlights of the children’s strand at this year’s Dubli(...)

Mesmerising performance but something hesitant in Barry McGovern’s delivery

Nell Zink uses brilliant satire to take potshots at all sides in her third novel

Whether tackling Shakespeare, writing poetry or creating a graphic novel, the Canadian author lets her social conscience shine thr(...)

PJ Gallagher leads a likeable trio of men who build things and talk their way around football, fishing and extraterrestrial life

Jessica Thom turns the ‘crazy language-generating machine’ that is Tourette’s to her advantage

Dublin Theatre Festival: Mikel Murfi takes multiple roles in Michael Keegan Dolan majestic retelling of the classic story-ballet

Dublin Theatre Festival: a powerful, necessary and moving moment of social testimony that doesn’t quite work as a piece of theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival: corpse comes back to life revealing the explosive dynamic of a strange and violent family

How do we capitalise on the innovative performances for young audiences? We asked the experts for their wishlist

The artist's latest picture book is about the way the fantasy worlds of children’s books create the fabric of the grown-up mind. H(...)

In the hands of Filter Theatre, live music and comedy shake up Shakespeare’s classic