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A lyrical take on the capital’s overlapping voices and lives

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Pipeworks set to be a festival of big sounds

Chess with Sam Collins

Tarun Kanyamarala vs Bagri Advait, World School Chess Championship 2019, Turkey

Angel of Broadway ready to take wing

The musical, created by husband-and-wife team of composer Brian Byrne and lyricist Kasey Jones, will feature some of the most exciting young Irish talents now performing in the US and internationally

Film: A true story full of wild fantasy

An ebullient account of Elton John’s rise to fame in the 1970s combines the required biographical realism with exquisite flights of fantasy to deliver a stunning three-dimensional portrait

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Theatre: Deftly navigating a PC minefield

This sumptuous and sophisticated production of The King and I from Bartlett Sher acknowledges the musical’s cultural baggage, but interrogates it too

Chamber music flagship event in sight of historic landmark

Home Fires Burning

Irish band A Lazarus Soul have made possibly the best album of their career by moving from earlier British or American influences to traditional Irish-inflected songwriting and a focus on community and home, writes Tony Clayton-Lea

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Midlife crisis is short and sweet

Mozart’s Magic Flute primed to hit the highest note of all

Hidden magic

Subtle spookiness abounds in Sarah Maria Griffin’s enthralling new novel Other Words for Smoke, featuring suburban tarot readings and two teenage protagonists who will fascinate young people and grown-ups alike, writes Anna Carey

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