The Maestro & the Mosquita: Louis Lovett brings a bravura performance to this emotional journey
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
Louis Lovett
Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett
‘Test live performances’ to take place in National Concert Hall and Abbey
Events to take place later in December, says Minister for Arts and Culture
Get a musical fix with 20 Shots of Opera
Irish National Opera commissioned 20 short operas that were composed and quickly produced for video
Three classical concerts to see this week
Hansel and Gretal the opera, work by women composers and celebrating Beethoven
Getting Scrapefoot, an immersive Goldilocks art installation, just right
When theatre designer Owen Boss began bringing his children to work, it became a test run for a new project at The Ark
Frnkstn review: A mutation of man and monster
Michael West’s new version of Frankenstein wonders if the scientist and monster are now one and the same
So you think you know the story of Frankenstein?
‘Frnkstn’, at the Abbey Theatre, reanimates the monster for a new generation
They Called Her Vivaldi review: A rich and charming symphony
Theatre Lovett have created a delightful comedy about loss and self-reliance
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the Gate
Theatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opens
Your guide to going out and staying in this week
They Called Her Vivaldi show comes to Peacock Theatre and RTÉ Contempo Quartet kicks off tour in Kilkenny
From Kafka to Walsh: This week’s theatre highlights
Imaginative new spins on old concerns take the stages this week
The Seagull review: Chekhov feels at home in Ireland
In Corn Exchange’s witty and absorbing new version, set in contemporary Ireland, the feathers fly again
Taoiseach to attend Easter Rising commemorations in Washington
Opening of the “Ireland 100” festival at John F Kennedy Center starts three-week festival of Irish arts and culture
DTF Review | The True Story of Hansel and Gretel: Don’t expect a fairytale ending
Theatre Lovett’s sinister new version of the fairy tale leads the original very far from home. Has it also lost its trail?
Baboró and beyond: Irish kids’ theatre comes of age
It’s not unusual to find our best theatrical talent working in children’s theatre, and given the calibre of the work there’s little wonder why
25-foot ‘Giant Grandmother’ runs amok on Limerick streets
French theatre company Royal de Luxe brought huge marionette to ‘City of Culture’
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