Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s Bach-inspired ‘Inventions’ premieres at Kilkenny Arts Festival

As always, Kilkenny’s strong musical tradition is paramount

Opera version of the ‘Odyssey’ and an open-air Shakespeare production will run in August

The artist on her love of historical culture, Olwen Fouéré and her guilty TV pleasure

Female choreographers and their dancers possess the hearts and minds of audiences

Highlights include ‘Giselle’, Robyn Orlin, ‘Ion’ and, of course, dancing AI

After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health

The Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatre

Part of her ‘Belfast prayer’ is a ‘big tough hug for all those dads, sons and brothers’

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

Dancers from 11 countries to perform in 40 events over 10-day programme

A version of ‘The Tempest’, set in west Kerry, called ‘A Shitstorm’, is slated for theatre

Playwright says world has ‘become a lot more polarised and a lot scarier, politically’

Suede, a new work inspired by Eileen Gray and US model Cameron Russell are also on the July arts festival bill

Dublin Dance Festival’s opening show has the style and pace of a Nordic noir thriller

Emma Martin, whose ‘Tundra’ opens this year’s Dublin Dance Festival, says dance is about working with ‘things that are beyond words’ – even if that means venturing into some very bleak territory