Kilkenny Arts Festival: Hybrid form soon becomes cumbersome, but operatic adaptation of Krapp’s Last Tape still intrigues

Of course it’s not all bad: these days of apparent celebration can teach us a lot about ourselves

Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’

Swedish musician evokes apocalypse, environmental collapse and spiritual darkness in songs striving towards the light

A very good show and an exciting glimpse of the freer, more unpredictable artist Róis could become

Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford was packed with 35,000 festivalgoers over the weekend. Here’s what we loved and what we didn’t

Dara Kiely is the band’s indispensable focal point and he staggers across the stage howling like a wounded man

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious

Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out

Galway International Arts Festival: At 79, Smith’s voice remains strong, and her demeanour is as pure and earnest as ever

Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: The Rooms series continues with the story of a caretaker whose marriage has reached a moment of crisis

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: In Eva O’Connor’s play For Dolores, a fractured friendship feels every bit as painful as the end of a romance

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Druid Theatre’s revival leans into the Victorian melodrama’s surprising political undercurrent