Jamie Vartan

‘Grief Is the Thing with Feathers’ spreads its wings on stage

Enda Walsh’s unlikely theatrical adaptation betters the power of the original story

Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored me

Max Porter's acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is being adapted for the stage by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy

The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

The best classical performances to see this week

Dublin International Piano Festival, opera at the Galway Arts Festival and 37th Chamber Music Festival in Castletownshend

Herculanum review: all smoke, no fire

Félicien David’s opera takes the explosion of Mt Vesuvius as its setting, but this production never manages to ignite

The Barber of Seville review: Rossini gets a rock makeover

Characters are given space to sing and shine in impressive updating of a comic classic

Shackleton review: A cold eye cast over a legendary survival story

This Blue Raincoat production is fascinatingly uninterested in the thrills of the survival story

The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death

Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival

Review: The Playboy of the Western World

Blue Raincoat’s fascinating production sharpens up the Synge song by keeping cool

Murphy, Murfi, Walsh and Rea: partners in play heading for Galway

Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh to renew their theatrical partnership

It may not be subtle, but Foroni’s ‘Cristina’ sure is exciting

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