coming up on Friday's show....a special with the Defence Forces School of Music, the New Dublin Voices Choir and soprano Mairead Buicke in a musical Christmas celebration _______________________________________________________________________ coming up next week on Arena..... Tuesday 27th - a special programme remembering and commemorating the life and work of the late John Montague, one of our great contemporary poets and Ireland's first Professor Poetry ************************ Wednesday 28th - a public interview with Jim Sheridan, recorded in July at the Town Hall Theatre as part of this year’s Galway Film Fleadh ************************** Thursday 29th - a look back at some of the broadcasts that came from various Festivals around the country this ...
Artistic director Fiach MacConghail explains what's in store in the 2016 programme for the Abbey Theatre Official website: www.abbeytheatre.ie
Neil Murray and Graham McLaren, the newly-appointed directors of the Abbey Theatre; they take up the post in 2017 when current director Fiach MacConghail steps down
coming up on Thursday's show....the final film reviews of the year will include Why Him?, Collateral Beauty, A Monster Calls and Silence, what was it about the Bronte sisters that their lives and their writings continue to fascinate, enthrall and inspire? and a profile of one of Glasgow's musical finest The Blue Nile
As it prepares to celebrate its 110th anniversary, director and CEO of the Abbey Theatre Fiach Mac Conghail, literary director Aideen Howard and actor Pat Laffan look back on the history ...