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• 29
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  We had the fear when we were asked to dance. Now the fear is leaving dance behind’: A group of women from Dublin's inner city have taken a leap...
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• 29
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Build it and they will come: the story of the Irish language in a disused airport: Branar’s Sruth na Teanga is an ambitious immersive month-long...
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• 27
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OPINION

  Burn, baby burn: Dylan Coburn Gray on the end of the world: Writer Dylan Coburn Gray talks how utopia is currently not cool, about hope, despair...
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• 25
  FEB
  2020

  THE GUARDIAN | INTERVIEW

  Watergate meets His Girl Friday: Irish news caper The Fall of the Second Republic: A vaudeville thriller set around a Dublin newspaper in 1973 uses...
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• 22
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Artists understand the desire for political change better than most: The key issues driving the vote for change are in lockstep with the problems...
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• 22
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | LISTING

  This week’s theatre highlights: Druid’s production of The Cherry Orchard: Play will be live-streamed to cinemas in March in a first for an Irish...
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• 22
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Looking at a republic falling apart from the inside: Corn Exchange’s new and final play is a grim look at an alternative 1970s Ireland...
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• 22
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OPINION

  Why we need to pay our artists: There is bitter irony in having the surname Bell and trying to help raise the alarm. But when someone you love is...
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• 17
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OPINION

  Looking For America - Fede Gonzales' fantastic voyage to Ireland: For this year's Where We Live festival, actress and playwright Janet Moran brings...
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• 17
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Opera points an accusing finger: It's been noticeable that when the Abbey management has entered into co-production with other companies in recent...
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• 15
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES |

  Art and culture thrive in spaces of disagreement: Storms or otherwise, every other Capital of Culture has been beset by problems...
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• 15
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Druid, Chekhov and the politics of power: Garry Hynes directs The Cherry Orchard, a play she says that’s still of the moment...
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• 14
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | OBITUARY

  Theatre designer Monica Frawley has died aged 65: Frawley was one of Ireland’s best known set and costume designers...
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• 14
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OBITUARY

  Death announced of theatre designer Monica Frawley: Dublin-based Monica Frawley, who was 65, designed the premiere productions for many Irish...
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• 13
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | INTERVIEW

  Cork to welcome classic operatic take on Hansel and Gretel: Louis Lovett returns to his native Cork with the classic operatic take on the story of...
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• 12
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH NEWS | FEATURE

  Dark Horse hosts atmospheric theatre inspired by Seamus Heaney: THEATRE, poetry, music, sounds, visual effects, smell and touch merge in a new...
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• 12
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OPINION

  The Lonsdale Project - where science and theatre collide: Playwright Sian Ní Mhuirí writes for Culture about her latest work, The Lonsdale Project...
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• 12
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | LISTING

  Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture - 5 must-see events: Galway 2020 European Capital of Culture is officially up and running, and we've...
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• 10
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | OPINION

  Playwright Olivia Morahan: 'I've always been promoting other people and their talents. Now it's my time': Olivia Morahan (45) is a playwright...
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• 10
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  'Riverdance' steps back to where it all began in 1995': 'Riverdance' marked the 25th anniversary of its first ever show with a gala performance...
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• 10
  FEB
  2020

  VULTURE | REVIEW

  Ruth Negga’s Hamlet Is a Sweet Prince—But It’s Not a Good Night: When you produce Hamlet, you don’t cast your lead player to fit the show so much...
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• 10
  FEB
  2020

  GALWAY ADVERTISER | FEATURE

  Druid presents Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard In a version by Tom Murphy: Bringing together one of the world’s great classic plays with one of...
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• 08
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  ‘Carers become these non-entities, because they give up so much of their own lives’ Choreographer Philip Connaughton’s latest work, Mamafesta...
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• 08
  FEB
  2020

  TUAIRISC.IE | FEATURE

  ‘Amhrán an Bhonnáin Bhuí’ – leagan Gaeilge de mhórshaothar Vincent Woods ar stáitse na Taibhdheirce: I 1994 a léiríodh Song Of The Yellow Bittern...
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• 05
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH NEWS | INTERVIEW

  Arts Q&A: Actress Libby Smyth on Sam McCreedy, Sylvester Stallone and Audrey Hepburn: Jenny Lee puts performers and artists on the spot about what...
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• 04
  FEB
  2020

  THE NEW YORKER | REVIEW

  Hamlet: Everybody knows that, in Shakespeare’s day, men played the women in his dramas and comedies until, in the sixteen-sixties, women began...
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• 03
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | OPINION

  Jody O'Neill: 'I want to celebrate our autism - not change it': Writer and actor Jody O'Neill discovered she was autistic as an adult, following...
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• 03
  FEB
  2020

  RTÉ | OBITUARY

  Aoife White - an unsung hero of Irish theatre remembered: Arts manager and designer Lian Bell remembers her friend and colleague, theatre producer...
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• 03
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | OPINION

  Austerity forced me out of Ireland. Now I don’t know how to return ‘I was 24, top of my year in college, a master’s in my pocket, but I couldn’t...
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• 01
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Black humour, black cats and a blood red finale: Playwright Martin McDonagh has always been fearless. This blood-soaked play, first produced in...
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• 01
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | LISTING

  This week’s theatre highlights: TRAD and Flights. Catch the final dates of the well-travelled and well-received production of TRAD...
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• 01
  FEB
  2020

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Eileen Walsh: How I reconcile motherhood with playing Medea: Taking the role of a woman who kills her children is not easy with children of your own..
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