In my own childhood, my mother held fast to the baffling belief that Santa was merely ‘a nice idea’

Yfel, a new play from Pan Pan and the Australian collective Aphids, delves into our darker nature to find out

Theatre: Louise Lowe’s returning production honours Joyce without embalming him, letting his world breathe again

Lorde at her best is magnetic, brooding, a touch menacing. She shouldn’t try to be too relatable

Not just a love story but something sadder and more complicated

Tightly constructed thriller explores class and privilege in contemporary Britain

There’s an idealistic atmosphere here you don’t find much any more. It’s both reassuring and nostalgic

Brokentalkers have teamed up with the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland to blend testimony, research and performance

The American author’s latest novel connects a child’s trauma to political disappearances in Japan

Theatre: Pom Boyd stars in clever, entertaining portrayal of Constance Smith’s extraordinarily novelistic life

These Pillow Queens songs belong to half-lit bars and the roar of a crowd that knows every word

Debut novel tackles dark times with lightness and compassion

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama

Behind the art-world lampooning lies a portrait of the creative mind