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Conversations After Sex: Mark O'Halloran talks to Tubridy

Theatre • 03 Oct 21

Night Dances: Emma Martin on floating in music and laser beams

Dublin Theatre Festival • 02 Oct 21

Olwen Fouéré stars in Marina Carr's new play iGIRL

Dublin Theatre Festival announces 2021 programme

Theatre • 12 Aug 21

Niall Horan - coming to your living room this November

Appreciating the arts from home - things to do

With the reality of a second lockdown upon us, it's more important than ever to find ways to appreciate the arts from the comfort of our own homes.

Arts and Culture • 29 Oct 20

It's all Greek to me - Conor Hanratty reimagines The Persians

Director Conor Hanratty writes about The Persians, a new podcast that tells you everything you ever wanted to know about the oldest surviving Greek tragedy, brought to life in a vibrant new Irish translation...

Podcasts • 09 Oct 20

The Party To End All Parties: watch Dublin Theatre Festival live

For this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, Anu Productions invite you to join us on a very personal journey through events that have formed and shaped us...

Dublin Theatre Festival • 07 Oct 20

Watch: Dublin Theatre Festival honours Fiona Shaw

Each year, Dublin Theatre Festival honours someone who has made a lifetime contribution to theatre at a gala event...

Dublin Theatre Festival • 02 Oct 20

Naomi Louisa O'Connell in Irish National Opera's Least Like The Other: Searching for Rosemary Kennedy (Pic: Pat Redmond)

What happens next - Dublin Theatre Festival reinvents itself

'How do you respond to an unprecedented global crisis?' Willie White, Director of Dublin Theatre Festival, writes about this year's event, which runs runs from Sept 24th - 11 Oct.

Festivals • 20 Sep 20

Something for the Weekend – Marty Rea's Cultural Picks

Belfast actor Marty Rea has forged a deserved reputation as one of the most compelling presences on the Irish stage - we asked him for his choice cultural picks...

Something For The Weekend • 04 Oct 19

Arena's Sean Rocks, Hecuba star Aislín McGuckin, Marina Carr and musician Caoimhín Ó Raghallaigh

Listen: Playwright Marina Carr talks to Arena

For a special edition of RTÉ's Arena live from Dublin's Project Arts Centre, Sean Rocks talks to acclaimed playwright Marina Carr about her formidable career and her provocative new adaptation of the Greek tragedy Hecuba.

Theatre • 01 Oct 19

Join Arena for an audience with Marina Carr

On Monday next, September 30th at 7pm in the Project Arts Centre, Marina Carr will be in conversation with Arena's Sean Rocks, discussing on her new work Hecuba, and her formidable career to date - the event is free, but ticketed...

Theatre • 27 Sep 19

Agony in the wings - Billy Roche on his new play

Acclaimed playwright Billy Roche writes for Culture about his latest play, A Love Like That, which receives its world premiere in his native Wexford this week, ahead of a run at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 27 Sep 19

Dermot Bolger's Last Orders At The Dockside (Pic: Shane Connaughton)

Last Orders at the Dockside - Dermot Bolger on his new play

The venerable Dermot Bolger writes for Culture about his latest play, Last Orders at the Dockside, which opens at the Abbey Theatre on as part of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 25 Sep 19

Actor Peter Gaynor and Dylan Tighe in rehearsals for Pasolini's Salò Redubbed

You can leave at any time - Dylan Tighe redubs Pasolini's Salò

Writer, performer and theatremaker Dylan Tighe writes for Culture about his latest project, Pasolini's Salò Redubbed, which runs at the Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage, as part of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 19 Nov 19

Kids' play - Theatre For Children at Dublin Theatre Festival

Aideen Howard, Director of Dublin's cultural centre for children, The Ark, writes about their Theatre For Children programme at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 28 Sep 19

Aislín McGuckin stars in Rough Magic's Hecuba (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

Hecuba - Marina Carr and Lynne Parker reimagine a Greek legend

Rough Magic's Lynne Parker writes for Culture about her new production of Marina Carr's Hecuba, just before they turn the Greek tragedy on its head for this year's Dublin Theatre Festival...

Dublin Theatre Festival • 30 Sep 19

Dublin Theatre Festival: Nilaja Sun in Pike St.

Nilaja Sun speaks: "This is a pivotal time in America"

Following the remarkable success of her play No Child…, OBIE Award-winning writer and performer Nilaja Sun writes for Culture ahead of the Irish premiere of her latest one-woman show, Pike St...

Theatre • 30 Sep 19

Seiriol Davies in How to Win Against History

How to Win Against History: Seiriol Davies on his 'campy' musical

Dublin Theatre Festival • 24 Sep 19

Actors Barbara Probst and Brian Gleeson lend their voices to Beckett's Room

Beckett's Room - Ben Kidd on rewriting biographical theatre

Dubbed 'a play without performers', Dead Centre's new production Beckett's Room tells the story of the apartment in Paris where Samuel Beckett lived with his partner Suzanne during the Second World War.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 26 Sep 19

American Horror Story: 1984 is back - and out for blood

Culture 10 - the week's cultural highlights, dissected

And how was your week? Here's our handy tipsheet of Cultural musts...

Culture 10 • 19 Sep 19

This is your wake up fall - Dublin Youth Theatre meet Pan Pan

Writer and dramaturg Nicholas Johnson writes for Culture about The Sleepwalkers, the new collaboration between Dublin Youth Theatre and Pan Pan, which runs at The Samuel Beckett Centre, Dublin from July 22-27.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 01 Oct 19

Team Ireland s VR film Design and Destroy is viewed by audiences at Prague Quadrennial 2019 (Pic: Ciaran Bagnall)

Design & Destroy - Irish designers enter a Virtual Reality world

Design and Destroy is an exploration of Irish design through the medium of virtual reality, currently touring a number of Irish venues, following its international premiere at this year's Prague Quadrennial. Contributor Peter Power writes for Culture abou

Dublin Theatre Festival • 04 Oct 19

Love, lust, curiosity & madness - Irish National Opera go dark

Irish National Opera's Artistic Director, Fergus Sheil writes for Culture about their latest production, Bartók's Bluebeard's Castle, directed by renowned playwright Enda Walsh, which opens at the Gaiety Theatre, Dublin this weekend.

Opera • 10 Oct 18

Second Hand Dance bring 'Grass' to The Ark for this year's Dublin Theatre Festival

Play time - theatre for children at The Ark

Director of the Ark Aideen Howard writes for Culture about their Theatre for Children season, which runs from 27 Sept - 14 Oct, as part of this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 28 Sep 18

Louis Vanhaverbeke's acclaimed Multiverse plays at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival

Dublin Theatre Festival: Willie White on a Multiverse of delights

Dublin Theatre Festival preview: Willie White, Artistic Director of the Dublin Theatre Festival, writes for Culture about this international shows in the spotlight at this year's DTF, which kicks off on September 27th.

Theatre • 24 Sep 18