Selina Cartmell’s dark version of the fairytale has just opened at the Gate Theatre. Here’s how the story of dance and destruction took shape

RTÉ’s Christmas showcase will have a nautical theme this year inspired by The Little Mermaid

The food writer on his beautiful new book, his season’s reading and how to winter well

Melbourne final to be a family-affair after Lucic-Baroni and Vandeweghe are beaten

The handwritten book reveals the Madame Bovary author’s literary struggles, and is part of an auction cache that includes first editions of works by Goethe and the Marquis de Sade

Premature burial was an understandable fear in centuries past. It happened.

Willow toy made in An Spidéal, Co Galway has made the princess’ official toybox list

Patrick Lafcadio Hearn, who is perhaps better known in Japan than the country he was born in, is finally getting the recognition he deserves thanks to Tramore’s new memorial gardens

The Belfast-born painter went to Israel to portray the plurality that a divided city needs

The Polish artist’s strange and cryptic paintings are inspired by Hans Christian Andersen and the illustrations of Andrzej Strumillo

The past week saw operatic premieres in Dublin by Raymond Deane and, of all people, Antonin Dvorak

Hope brings music, music brings hope