Enda Walsh

The Abbey’s Dear Ireland shows how artists can bring a valuable insight to current events

Donald Clarke and Tara Brady's definitive list has more than a few surprises

Theatre asks writers to create monologues for 50 performers, to premiere online this month

Dear Ireland: 50 writers invited to create 50 one-actor pieces that reflect Covid-19 crisis

Lankum singer on the tear-jerking properties of Olivia Colman, and the podcasts of Jon Ronson.

Brenock O’Connor and Zara Devlin star in the new stage version of the hit Irish film

The cast of Pan Pan’s upcoming Endgame talk about Samuel Beckett’s enduring relevance

Is the novelist and screenwriter turned playwright fated to follow in his family’s footsteps?

Wexford Festival Opera: Andrew Synnott’s skilful music faces a riot of onstage activity

The Peaky Blinders star talks PTSD, #MeToo, 007, and what Brexit means for Ireland

Redemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway Airport

Those who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?

The best picks from this year’s selection of theatre, street spectacle and quirky surprise

Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The Sleepwalkers

US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, Epiphany

Review: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performances

Review: Pauline McLynn and Peter Gowan work from an extraordinary script by Enda Walsh, but the setting leaves things out in the cold

Plays for an audience of one and a Mick Flannery musical are among this year’s ambitious programme

Theatre, music and literature galore is to be found across the city from the 13th June

Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland

New writing ‘has to be nurtured and taken care of’, says artistic director Garry Hynes

INO is taking the Deadly World of Opera to venues from East Wall to Inchicore

Peter Crawley’s analysis: It was a big year for villainy as Richard III took top honours

The Grief Is the Thing with Feathers writer on following up his acclaimed debut novel

Look out for ‘Rapids’, about life with HIV by Shaun Dunne, and the Abbey’s 24-hour plays

After seeing more than 130 shows, the judges have made 60 nominations in 15 categories

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

Year in Culture Review: Feelings of rage, injustice, grief and – hopefully – healing pervaded theatre

Year in Culture Review: Key directors stepped down, while performers stepped up in classical music and opera

Classical music highlights for the coming week

Dublin Theatre Festival: Bartók’s music is matched by Paula Murrihy, ideally paired with Joshua Bloom by Irish National Opera

Irish mezzo-soprano on her unusual route into a singing career and her upcoming role as Judith, the fourth wife of Bluebeard

We’re seeing a revolution in form in theatre, but content is what keeps audiences engaged

Programme straddling popular and esoteric work attracts record numbers

Galway International Arts Festival review: President’s address, and hit show ‘Flight’

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon

This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts

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

Arts Council chairwoman Sheila Pratschke says it must seek out and support artists of the future