Theatre & Arts

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  A dark delight is unearthed with revival of Brian Friel’s perfect play

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  Meet the Irish magician with over 45 billion views on Facebook – and a mission to spread joy to the homeless

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  People & Culture Magazine

  Galway International Arts Festival offers two winners: a classic and a premiere

• Review Magazine

  The Map of Argentina theatre review: Monogamy is a tough gig in offbeat mid-life crisis play

  

• Review Magazine

  Unspeakable Conversations theatre review: Insightful show grapples with controversial views on disability and euthanasia

  

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  Endgame theatre review: Druid’s production of Beckett classic is beautifully staged but relentlessly bleak

  

• Review Magazine

  Dining Room & Changing Room theatre review: Bite-sized plays explore sexual repression and relationship breakdown

  

• Review Magazine

  Reunion theatre review: Mark O’Rowe’s family drama is a demolition derby that leaves emotional wreckage all over the stage

  

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  ‘When my father was diagnosed with MND, I grieved. Training to be a death doula helped’

  

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  ‘Irish theatre in crisis’: Playwright Jimmy Murphy on why Arts Minister Catherine Martin needs to change the script on funding

  

• Niamh Horan

  Why Ireland’s art market is booming: ‘You can always build more houses but you can never make another Jack B Yeats’

  

• Ukraine

  Escaping Ukraine: ‘The traffic was so slow and the panic so high that in order to cope I drew sketches while driving’

  

• People & Culture Magazine

  Bewleys Cafe Theatre double bill lights up the genius of Joyce’s Dubliners

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  Ross Watson: ‘The rocket’s bright colours speak of childhood innocence, often the first victim of war’

• James Joyce

  Stories from James Joyce’s Dubliners still shine like gems, more than a century on

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  Mark O’Rowe: ‘I couldn’t sacrifice my kids to be a great writer, I balanced the boat’

• Review Magazine

  On-stage evolution of a Gen Z gay romance is smart, funny and heartfelt

• Saoirse Hanley

  Body-positivity artist Clíodhna Doherty: ‘We should make every vacant and abandoned building a canvas for artists’

• People & Culture Magazine

  Two shows at Cork Midsummer Festival serve up food for thought

• Review Magazine

  Laura Whitmore is outstanding on stage in story of urban ghosts and yuppie vandalism

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  Constantin Chatov’s portrait of literary great Margaret Mitchell captures authors steady intelligence

• People & Culture Magazine

  ‘Well-made’ Abbey revival of The Sugar Wife is truly a play for today

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  Self-taught painter Annette Smyth: ‘I like to find beauty in the grime’

• Katie Byrne

  ‘A stranger came up and asked if I did a bunch of LSD with my parents and watched a load of Wes Anderson films’

• Review Magazine

  The Sugar Wife theatre review: relevant echoes on how to do good in a messy world

• Ian McKellen ‘looking forward to returning to work’ after falling off stage

• Life Magazine

  2:22 A Ghost Story star Colin O’Donoghue on acting, real life exorcisms and working with Anthony Hopkins

• Tony awards: A night of firsts as Daniel Radcliffe, Jeremy Strong and Sarah Paulson land gongs

• People & Culture Magazine

  Ed Kelly: ‘Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation had a huge impact – the overlap of fine art and music was exhilarating’

• Sally Rooney

  ‘That thing going unsaid was: I miss you, I care about you. I’m lonely. That’s what we’re trying to say when we flirt.’ Emilie Pine on writing about sex

• People & Culture Magazine

  Glass Mask meditations on ‘Irish problem’ offer up a heady brew

• An electric revival of Billy Roche’s portrait of masculinity in crisis, 1988 style