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• 29
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Culture 5 - your cultural highlights for the next seven days: An Octoroon comes to The Abbey Theatre. US playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins radical...
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• 29
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Project Arts Centre presents US by Tobi Omoteso & Catherine Joyce: On the first weekend of each month, Project Arts Centre will publish a new work....
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• 29
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | REVIEW

  Theatre reviews: An Octoroon, at the Abbey; Frankenstein - How to Make a Monster, at the Gate An Octoroon is an inspired take on race, while...
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• 29
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | FEATURE

  Limerick festival lights the way in tackling climate change through the arts: Future Limerick: Climate Arts Festival takes place May 16th to 21st...
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• 27
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  An Octoroon: Theatre’s past crimes rewritten as a magnificent masterpiece: Centuries of obscene caricature, is delivered as both confrontational...
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• 27
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Bealtaine Festival 2022 - 10 essential events to catch: Welcome to Age & Opportunity's Bealtaine Festival! Ireland’s national celebration of the...
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• 27
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | REVIEW

  Denis Conway: Christian Brothers, contact tracing, and Krapp’s Last Tape:The Cork actor used his chemistry degree to good effect during the...
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• 26
  APR
  2022

  GCN | FEATURE

  Don't miss these stunning queer acts at Live Collision 2022: Live Collision is back with another fabulous lineup including LGBTQ+ performance...
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• 25
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Belfast buzzing as arts festival gets off to a flyer: Our congratulations go to the Belfast International Arts Festival. This weekend it kicked off...
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• 24
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Binchy’s on-stage ‘Circle of Friends’ are well worth cosying up with: The cast of Circle of Friends were going into rehearsal when Covid first...
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• 23
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  How to Make a Monster – why is the Gate Theatre hosting a beatbox gig? Frankenstein: How to Make a Monster at the Gate Theatre until April 30...
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• 23
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | INTERVIEW

  ‘It’s about time the Abbey had a black director’ Three of the young rising stars making their national theatre debut in the Abbey’s staging of An...
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• 19
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ CULTURE | OPINION

  Marconi & Me - Zoë Comyns on her new Drama On One play: In 2015 I was browsing in an antique shop in Harold's Cross and I came across...
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• 17
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | INTERVIEW

  Conor McPherson: How a boy from Dublin got to run wild with Bob Dylan’s songbook:Getting the music legend’s blessing to fashion a show from his songs
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• 16
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  ‘Dance is a potential remedy for some of the chaos of the world right now’: Emily Molnar of Nederlands Dans Theater wants to use dance as a beacon...
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• 15
  APR
  2022

  GCN | FEATURE

  The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival 2022 returns: The International Dublin Gay Theatre Festival returns with a brand new programme for 2022.
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• 15
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ CULTURE | FEATURE

  What Does He Need? IMMA on what it means to be a man: Artist, writer and lecturer at NCAD Fiona Whelan introduces What Does He Need? currently...
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• 15
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | INTERVIEW

  Artistic directors of Abbey Theatre preparing to bring production of Brian Friel’s Translation to Belfast: Caitriona McLaughlin and Marty Rea talk...
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• 14
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Marie Jones’ award-winning play Stones In His Pockets returns home to Belfast as 25th-anniversary ‘reimagined’ production...
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• 11
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Clarity sought over disabled artists' access to income scheme: Arts organisations are seeking clarity from the Department of Social Protection...
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• 10
  APR
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Ukrainian refugee teen ready for the Abbey stage: A little over a month after fearing she would never dance again, a 15-year-old Ukrainian refugee...
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• 09
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Elaine Murphy on adapting Circle of Friends: ‘They call it the Normal People of its day’: The stage version of Maeve Binchy’s novel is finally...
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• 09
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Stunted masculinity lurching in an eccentric midlands landscape: Country and Irish at Smock Alley Theatre, Dublin until Saturday, April 9...
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• 09
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH INDEPENDENT | INTERVIEW

  Caitríona McLaughlin: ‘Our function here at the Abbey Theatre is to ask questions and to provoke’: The new artistic director on starting out as...
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• 08
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Country and Irish: Failing to hit the right note: Slick production and deft performance can’t compensate for undercooked script...
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• 08
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Country and Irish: Failing to hit the right note Slick production and deft performance can’t compensate for undercooked script...
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• 06
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  All the world’s a stage for our budding actors We talk to Tina McVeigh of the Belfast School of Performing Arts about teaching life lessons...
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• 05
  APR
  2022

  THE JOURNAL | FEATURE

  A lottery will see 2,000 artists receive €325-a-week in pilot income scheme: All eligible applications will be entered into a random selection process
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• 05
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Artists to get €325 a week for three years under Government plan Basic Income for Arts pilot scheme will see 2,000 people chosen at random for...
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• 04
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Tarry Flynn: An old story told with great flair Pure theatricality of adaptation doesn’t quite compensate for the original’s dated quality...
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• 02
  APR
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  Fast-paced Civil War drama puts women centre stage Outrage at The Pumphouse, Dublin Docks until April 3, online April 14-23...
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• 02
  APR
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | INTERVIEW

  Theatre-maker Amy Conroy: ‘I’m constantly worried about where and how I’m going to live when I’m older. I am a renter and the anxiety that comes...
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• 02
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | INTERVIEW

  Star choreographer’s Rolling Stones ballet set for Dublin stage Christopher Bruce reflects on a lifetime of work and the ballet that almost didn’t...
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• 01
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Mojo Mickybo: Belfast’s original loss-of-innocence tale returns to home stage next week at The Mac: It was hailed as the best coming-of-age film...
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• 01
  APR
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival set to make long-awaited return later this month: The Cathedral Quarter Arts Festival (CQAF) is making a...
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• 01
  APR
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Wake: Caught between death and the ham sandwich Review: Monologue shreds ritual banalities of funeral ceremonies with glee...
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