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The Beginning Comes After the End - Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband - Manchester Must Dance: A Life of Music, Madness and Moving on Up

The Beginning Comes After the End - Oscar Wilde’s An Ideal Husband - Manchester Must Dance: A Life of Music, Madness and Moving on Up

Don Giovanni - John Banville on Gulliver's Travels at 300 - Suspended Chorus

The best of Arena's week with award winning film editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle... Choral composer Eric Whitacre... and live music and chat from HamsandwicH.

Film Reviews - Live Music from HamsandwicH - BAFTA Winning Film Editor Úna Ní Dhonghaíle

TRAD - Festival of Voice - Elysium Nevada

Remembering Gary Lydon - ‘Canto’ at the National Symphony Orchestra - Marilyn Monroe’s love of literature - Four Night Seas

The best of Arena's week with actor Fra Fee on his new Netflix series Unchosen... Historian Donal Fallon and musician Niamh Ní Charra on the story of boxer Dan Donnelly... and singers Cáit Ní Riain and Toshín on their special collaboration

Film Reviews - Cara sa Cheol - Top Gun 40th Anniversary

Sáile - Fashion in Film - CRTL: Essays on Video Games - Gordon Snell tribute

In The Ring with Dan Donnelly - The Palm House - Excalibur at 45

The Unchosen with Fra Fee - Big Thief - The Spirits of Maritime Crossing

Album Reviews - TV Reviews

The best of Arena's week with Venice-bound visual artists Alice Maher and Isobel Nolan ... Filmmaker David Gleeson on his nostalgic new feature, Once Upon a Time in A Cinema... And Jenn Gannon reviews Lena Dunham's new memoir Famesick

Film Reviews - The Madonna of Asia - The Steps

The Irish at the Venice Biennale - Crime Thriller Series 'The Cage' - Poetry Collection: The Salt of Something New

'The Dry' Returns for its Third Season - Book Review: 1996: My Backstage Pass To The Wildest Year Of Britain’s Wildest Decade... - Theatre Review: Do You Come From Gommorah?

Review of Famesick - Once Upon a Time in a Cinema - Remembering Prince 10 years on from his passing

The best of Arena's week with musicians Aoife Ní Bhríain & Cormac McCarthy ... Jess Fahy on the visual art of William Blake ahead of an exhibition of his work at the National Gallery of Ireland... and musician Cormac De Barra remembers his friend and collaborator, Moya Brennan.

Film Reviews - Limerick Catalyst Film Festival - Doc on One Soundtracks

Music from Aoife Ní Bhriain and Cormac McCarthy - Colin Murphy's New Play: Miasma - New Movie: The Three Urns

A tribute for the musical legend Moya Brennan - All the President’s Men is 50 Years old - James Joyce: A Political Life

Warner/ Paramount Takeover - The House Must Win - William Blake at National Gallery Ireland - A Room with a View turns 40

TV Reviews - Album Reviews

The best of Arena’s week - SexyTadhg performs and chats with Rick ahead of their appearance at the Night & Day Festival; Bairbre Power reviews the new Schiaparelli exhibition at the V&A, and playwright Rosaleen McDonagh discusses her debut novel, Contentious Spaces.

Rosaleen McDonagh - Film Reviews - Among Communists

Linear Flux - Delirium Archive - Ciseach

Remembering Gabriel Rosenstock - Schiaparelli at the V&A - Diatribe Stage at New Music Dublin - Stephen Sexton at the Granard Booktown Festival

Hollywood star James McAvoy - Ancient World - Contemporary Imagination - SexyTadhg

TV reviews - Album reviews

The best of Arena’s week - Colm Tóibín discusses the legacy of Mary Lavin; Sinéad Gleeson, filmmaker Pat Collins, and historian Catriona Crowe remember John McGahern; Jess Fahy explores the art of Easter; and we look ahead to the 75th Wexford Festival Opera.

Film Reviews - Wexford Festival Opera - Communion

Remembering Ronnie - Phoeno - Easter art

Colm Toibin on Mary Lavin career ahead of the launch a selection of her stories in 'An Arrow In Flight'

Doctor Millar, musician

Jackie Nickersonm, Conceptual Photographer

Rita Perry's Kill Your Darlings - 20th anniversary of John McGahern's passing - The Lives of Others

John Maguire and Sarina Bellissimo review films, No Ordinary Heist, George Orwell: 2+2=5, Splitsville. Cian Sullivan and Louise Bruton review albums by Robyn, Raye and How I Became a Wave.

The best of Arena's week with the creator of Sex and the City, Michael Patrick King, Jenn Gannon on Saturday Night Live's move to the UK and we consider the life and work of George Orwell.

Michael Patrick King - Tom Dunne - Book Review

Saturday Night Live UK - Life Aid in the National Photographic Archive - Rembrandt's Promise

George Orwell - The Good Luck Club - Patient: Soldier

The best of Arena's week with the Irish star of A Woman of Substance on C4, Jessica Reynolds... Lise Hand reviews Liza Minnelli's new memoir... and we remember the life and extraordinary talent of beloved singer, Dolores Keane.

Film reviews - Tuesdays With Morrie - Kids, Wait Till You Hear This!

Jessica Reynolds - Of Mornington - Look What You Made Me Do

Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with the Arena Arts Quiz. Louise Bruton, Eamon Sweeney, and Eoin Glackin battle John Meagher, Zara Hedderman, and Chris Wasser in a cerebral workout of Irish culture - all accompanied by the atmospheric uilleann pipes of Mark Redmond.

Irish folk singer Dolores Keane dies aged 72 - The East Asia Film Festival Ireland 2026 - Krapp's Last Tape

TV reviews - Album reviews

The best of Arena's week with Oscar nominated film producer Andrew Lowe of Element Pictures as he prepares to attend the Oscars in LA... the poet and broadcaster Paul Muldoon on his collection of lectures, Talking Heads... and Ifta Award winning casting director Amy Rowan

Film reviews - The Madison - Rusalka