November 8, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

Dark November Nights

November 8, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

The nights might feel long and dark at the moment, but there’s always light to be found. Let the theatre lights brighten your evening, and let them shine a light on the stories of those that need to be cared for and stood up for now more than ever.

October 25, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Theatre Stories: Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable

October 25, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Theatre Stories: Comfort the Disturbed and Disturb the Comfortable

Keep sharing art, keep making art, keep finding comfort in art, but keep making change as well.

October 4, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

October Shows to get your Fangs Into!

October 4, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

What’s gracing our stages this month for you to sink your teeth…or fangs…into?

September 20, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Theatre Stories: Every Art

September 20, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Get out and about tonight and enjoy the best of what Culture Night has to offer, then carry that energy through the next 364 days, and repeat.

August 23, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Theatre Stories: A Community in Art

August 23, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Whether you are participating in circus workshops, dancing your socks off at a gig, or sitting in the dark with an auditorium full of people enjoying a play, make time for art, make time for joy, make time for connection.

August 8, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Long Summer Days

August 8, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

If you’re looking for ideas on how to keep your brood busy over the coming month, read on for my recommendations of events to fill those long sunny and not-so-sunny summer afternoons.

July 19, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Theatre Stories: Overture

July 19, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Over the coming months I’ll be bringing you musings on the latest news in Irish theatre, interesting stories from the vaults of history, and conversations with makers, movers and shakers in the Irish theatre world.

July 5, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Festival Season is Here!

July 5, 2024

Saoirse Anton

#COLUMN, #THEATRE

Whether it is a weekend of revelry at a music festival, discovering new work at a fortnight-long arts festival, or enjoying family fun at a local fair, from here until the autumn you are guaranteed to find a festival almost every week.

November 9, 2022

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

Prick Up Your Ears

November 9, 2022

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

Whatever you choose to experience and explore this month, prick up your ears and listen to a voice you haven’t listened to before. With almost 8 billion people on this planet, there are a lot of stories and perspectives to be heard.

October 5, 2022

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

Stage Frights

October 5, 2022

Saoirse Anton

#THEATRE, #COLUMN

Whether or not you believe in ghosts, it’s pretty easy to see how ghost stories easily spring up around theatres. Generations of performers treading each others’ footsteps across the boards, speaking the same scripts, telling the same stories, high emotions onstage and off, the outside world suspended as a crowd of people gathers in a dark room to experience some magic…

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