Company launches open call for new stage work

Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

City of London Sinfonia at the NCH, ‘This Beach’ revived from Fringe, BBC’s ‘Howards End’

‘I Am Baba’ is an International Early Childhood Arts Commission funded by Arts Council Ireland

Our critical picks of the very best of what’s on in the capital and around the country this weekend and beyond

The women behind a radical piece of theatre The Game set out their stall

When Edwin Sammon was diagnosed with cancer at 36, his new comedy show began to evolve. But his dark comedy didn't always find a sympathetic audience

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

Crosshaven Redhead Convention has grown in numbers since inception seven years ago

A touring exhibition celebrates three decades of local-authority support for artists. Where does that commitment stand today, and what challenges face local arts development?

Colin Murphy’s new docudrama on the 2008 bank guarantee performs the role of a public inquiry

Clifftop roads, dolphins and seaweed baths in scenic Clare

A scrapheap of ideas amounts to a beautiful whole