Double Booker Prize winner and creator of The Handmaid's Tale, Margaret Atwood speaks to Arena ahead of her appearance at the Clifden Arts Festival - Pianist Barry Douglas on the Music at Monkstown festival - Lie Low, a new play about sex, violence and PTSD as part of the Dublin Fringe Festival.
Jun 2024
Sunflowers, Spirit Animals and Ziggy Stardust
Live from Belfast Book Festival at the Crescent Arts Centre, Ways of Seeing: writers Jan Carson, Lucy Caldwell, Glenn Patterson, Emily Byers-Ferrian and Maria McManus with music from Scott Flanigan, Sinéad McKenna and Trú
31m 57s
Jul 2021
Billie Eilish reviewed, Sir James MacMillan on the First Night of the Proms, Kwame Kwei-Armah, Edinburgh Art Festival
Ben Okri's new play Changing Destiny is an adaptation of one of the world's oldest known stories, the ancient Egyptian Tale of Sinuhe. Tonight marks not only its opening night at London's Young Vic theatre, but the first time the venue has opened its doors since last year. Artist ... Show More
41m 8s
Jun 2025
Billy Porter on activism and artists
Billy Porter, famous for his Broadway roles in such shows as Kinky Boots and Grease, and onscreen in Pose and Cinderella is making his directorial debut in theatre with This Bitter Earth. Jesse is an introspective Black playwright and when Neil, Jesse’s boyfriend, who is a white ... Show More
42m 18s
Oct 2024
Bronski Beat Age of Consent 40th Anniversary, Percival Everett, Horror on stage
Forty years ago Bronski Beat released Age of Consent, a record so loud and proud that it become an era-defining moment of gay liberation. We look back at the record's music, legacy and politics with novelist Matt Cain and Laurie Belgrave, who has produced the new 'The Age of Cons ... Show More
42m 23s
Jun 2024
Christos Tsiolkas, Victoria Canal, Baillie Gifford festival sponsorship
Christos Tsiolkas, the Australian writer best known for The Slap, talks about The In-Between, his visceral yet tender new novel about two men finding love in their fifties. Victoria Canal performs her Ivor Novello award winning song Black Swan and talks about her life in music.An ... Show More
42m 21s
Oct 2021
24th October 2021- Opening night fireworks and Turkish Delight, a soprano at the window, and starlings in full song
Marking the 70th Wexford Festival Opera: stories, music and song from Wexford, with Margaret Galvin, Joe Brennan, Tom Mooney, Jackie Morrissey, AM Cousins and Sinéad O’Reilly
33m 1s
Feb 2025
Bad Bunny Set to Headline 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' at Radio City Music Hall
Bad Bunny, the Puerto Rican global sensation, is set to perform at the highly-anticipated 'SNL50: The Homecoming Concert' at the iconic Radio City Music Hall. This event marks the 50th anniversary of the beloved sketch comedy show, "Saturday Night Live," celebrating its legacy an ... Show More
1m 46s