Conleth Hill in Faith Healer. Image, Carrie Davenport ***** When it first premiered in 1979, Brian Friel’s enduring Faith ...

Leyla Gu and Jihoon Kim in Iris. Image, Padraig Grant Which is why you simply have to love Wexford Festival Opera, celebrating its 75th anniversary. Each festival a cornucopia of operatic delights.

Julian Ovenden and Freddie Fox in High Society. Image by Pamela Raith ...

As part of its 75th anniversary celebrations, Wexford Festival Opera invited the public to vote for one opera they’d like to see staged as part of this year’s festival. Their choice, surprising to ...

It might be a 19th-century opera, but under Heather Hadrill’s excellent direction, Michael William Balfe’s The Rose of Castile gets a generational facelift. The Irishman’s 1857 opera, chosen for the ...

Looking like an English garden party, were it not for the use of cell phones you might think 1920s with its Bright Young Things. But lack of clarity is the least of this ragged production’s problems.

Niall Buggy and Dearbhla Molloy in Meredith. Image, Ros Kavanagh A dim, privileged sun, Meredith's gravitational pull attracts paid satellites who wouldn't be there otherwise. Tishé Fatunbi's live-in ...

Riain Cash, Molly Lynch, Danielle James in Lourdes! The Musical by Xnthony Ltd. Image, Patricio Cassinoni**** Yes, Lourdes! The Musical is loud, brash and hilariously funny. Yes, it's full of DIY ...

Emer Dineen, John Doran, Ashleigh Dorrell, Jeanne Nicole Ní Áinle, Liz FitzGibbon, Karl Quinn and Aidan Crowe in Animals. Image, Ros Kavanagh Like a sequence of vaudevillian sketches, with several ...

Mary Murray and Sabah Qalo in Refuge. Image, Andreas-Etter Throughout, twinning is the name of the game. Echoes and reflections of the past paired with present moments reveal history invariably ...

If you haven’t seen this 6 times Oscar winning movie, spoil yourself and watch it. Written and directed by Joseph Mankiewicz, the award winning script is razor sharp, the visuals are the epitome of ...