Performer on the appeal of Deadwood, rising photographer George Voronov, and why Kindles are the ‘anti-phone’

The show echoes Mark O’Rowe’s dramatic monologues and the spoken word rhythms of Emmet Kirwan’s Dublin Old School

Clare Dunne’s exuberant debut, and a challenging moral puzzle at the Gate

‘What am I doing with my life? Is there a way I can be zany and mad in a positive way?’

Artists and activists are searching for a national character lost in the boom and forgotten in the recession

The best music, theatre, comedy, film and spoken word in the coming year

In Conversation: Emmet Kirwan and Ian Lloyd Anderson

The 2018 event includes productions on shame, fatherhood and an Aer Lingus hijacking

Writer Phillip McMahon and director Rachel O’Riordan on making a play inspired by a hidden community of gay priests

The screen fizzes with the talent of some of Ireland’s best actors. But it’s not enough

The Gate Theatre turned 90 this year. Nobody noticed. Selina Cartmell on a challenging first year in charge

Incredibles 2, Ocean’s 8, Jurassic World and Mamma Mia!: Here We Go Again

Radio review: Sean O’Rourke discusses Trump’s America with Maureen Dowd and Ronan Farrow

Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’

Yasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’

The ‘significant’ financial burden will have implications beyond cancelled events

Many performances around the country called off and festivals are severely curtailed

Stacey Gregg’s award-winning play about a teenager’s fraught search for identity and Grace Dyas’s new play about digging for truth in the shadow of a Magdalene Laundry

TV adaptation of George RR Martin’s Nightflyers and Wolfwalkers among highly anticipated productions

The Gate: Twenty-one-year-old acting newcomer Paul Mescal has been cast in some of the country’s biggest theatrical productions

Oona Doherty and ‘Heartbreak’ director Dave Tynan collaborate on ‘A Concrete Song’

Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival

Emmet Kirwan and Dave Tynan are shooting a low-budget film in Dublin's crowded city centre

‘Riot’ drenches modern Ireland in colour in a triumph of wild and uplifting theatre

Dublin festival is now seeking a new artistic director and a new general manager

ThisIsPopBaby brings its cabaret, club culture and GAA aerial dance to Vicar Street

It’s grown in size but this festival is one of the most relaxed on hectic summer schedule

Every stage, every band, every slot for this weekend’s festival

The Irish Times will be partnering with the festival on Saturday with a programme of talks and debates

The spoken-word festival is holding its final event next week, but its demise isn’t an entirely sad story

No room for misty-eyed accounts of society in ‘The Creative Quarter’

Patrick Freyne: Who thinks getting married in Ikea is a good idea? This groom-to-be does...

Young Blood: an edgy night of hip hop and poetry in the NCH promises to present the voices of the next generation

Emmet Kirwan’s visceral film exposes humbug of State claims to safeguard vulnerable

The writer’s latest short film, developed from a stage show, follows one girl’s journey through young motherhood

Culture review 2016: The familiar delivered fresh revelations, while ghosts haunted many of our stages

Creative professionals are cautiously optimistic but wary of a branding exercise

From Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pick

The Drop Everything cultural biennial will soon take over Inisheer with art, music, and a specially built sauna

TG4's three-part time-travel comedy depicted an era when mustachioed men were less likely to own yoga mats or live to old age - but just as likely to live with their parents