The Dublin Legends - Sean Cannon, Paul Watchorn, Gerry O’Connor and Shay Kavanagh - have over 50 years of performing experience between them with The Dubliners and Sean Cannon has been the lead singer ...

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Just like the recent Troy Parrott-aided success of Ireland’s national team, Madra Salach’s completely sold tour proves that they too are truly aiming for the big leagues. Read our Play Next interview ...

Way Out” is the debut album of Boston-based Ishna, a contemporary Irish folk band. Ishna explores traditional repertoire within the context of a global setting, bringing the band members’ diverse ...

Seán Ó Sé, one of the country’s leading Irish traditional singers, has died at 89. He was widely known for his performance of the humorous and ballad An Poc ar Buile (The Mad Puck Goat) and for his ...

Spanning centuries, cultures and an ocean, Finn Anderson and Tania Azevedo’s new musical, Ballad Lines (say it fast and it sounds like Blood Lines) has the epic scope a big show demands. It also has ...

This time-spanning feminist musical falls between unconvincing contemporary scenes and thin historic narratives but has its moments ...

Film director Alfred Hitchcock described a “McGuffin” as something that is essential to the plot but ultimately unimportant in itself. In the new musical B ...