The Adult Youth Orchestra of Ireland, conducted by Ronan O’Reilly with leader Sarah Murphy, is the brainchild of Barbara Dowling

The Waterford Chamber Music Festival is largely the brainchild of dazzling young pianist Billy O’Brien

Everyone gets a chance to perform in this show

The packed attendance at SETU Arena is on its way under the baton of Anthony Gabrielle, a conductor who specialises in bringing movie classic scores to orchestras

Despite the bias of adoring parents and grandparents – and why not? – this is a first-class evening of musical entertainment

Quality singers and actors, along with the shakers and movers of the younger academy, perform a colourful and fun show for all the families that are crowding into the Theatre Royal

Mahela Reichstatt, Cathedral Organist at St Peter’s Cathedral in Schleswig since 2021, comes with a CV to die for

Far Flung Trio gave us an eclectic Sunday afternoon concert that rounds off the Waterford International Organ Festival for 2025

Norma Sheahan is today's poster girl for divorce... because there’s nothing left to fight over!

James Power’s Stagemad theatre company celebrates 20 years of dramatic productions in Waterford, Tramore and surrounding areas

Ridicule is Pat Shortt's stock and trade... He selects people at random in the audience, imagines them as his best friends and indulges in the most bizarre of situation comedies

'You just couldn’t buy the love that’s wrapped around this production tonight'

The Mersey Beatles have been rocking sold-out shows around the globe since 1999

Edel Quinlan has done well in growing her ballet school and in nurturing the talent and the love of dance that is everywhere tonight

Well done SETU Music School on its huge contribution to the arts in the Déise

The success of the drama lies in the range and appeal of all the minor characters

The whole show feels like a somewhat updated Les Mis where the poor protest having suffered enough

Public performances matter. They build character, strengthen resolve and nothing improves like a public performance where there’s no going back

'The Mall was just hopping with excitement as every talented fairytale hero emerged'

Back to the future for a magical moment in the present

Both bands combined to see us out with 'Death or Glory' and another great night from the Symphony Club of Waterford

The occasion was the fortieth anniversary of the first production of “The Gods are angry, Miss Kerr” and some original cast members, along with family members of those who have passed away, were in attendance

Well done Hannah Carberry – Waterford’s newest playwright - on an excellent debut with 'Grasp'

School shows are a time for everyone to shine and for the entire school community to celebrate the flair and talent

She’s a natural storyteller and the audience immediately warms to her folksy, how’s-it-goin’-like approach

Everyone has a Dolly Parton favourite and Cliona’s choice of songs is on everyone’s wish list in the audience

James Power’s Stagemad Theatre Co. has set its sights on a dramatised reading of the events that led up to the fateful morning of January 30th, 1816

'There are more falalas here than there are faux-opera stars in showers and there’s a swing-like feel to the madrigal that is just a delight'

A number of events took place recently throughout the Déíse county including a fantastic production of 'Everybody's Talking About Jamie, and Waterford News & Star photographer, Joe Evans was there to capture images of those in attendance.

Theatre Royal: Luke Thomas and the Swing Cats. Luke Thomas is surely the King of Swing.  If ever an artist owned the performing space, it’s Luke.  He moves around the stage like a cat.

Mairéad is impulsive, snappy, alive while Mal is strangely detached, measured and tolerant of his wife’s fiery nature and sexual energy

The show has a wonder title because everybody wonders just why everybody is talking about Jamie

Cass is also fond of the bottle as the family discover to their embarrassment

Director Sinéad Hourigan does well with this preachy script by concentrating on characterisation rather than the elusive plot

REVIEW: Waterford Dramatic Society's 90th Production - Big Maggie at Garter LaneThere’s a reason that Maggie Polpin is called Big Maggie. She’s had it tough.

A great night at the Dick Meany Theatre in Carrick-on-Suir

Nicola Spendlove is superb as the crafty, feisty, passive-aggressive victim that employs every aspect of her engaging personality to gain the upper hand in the duel

REVIEW: Many Young Men of Twenty at Dunhill Community Centre It was 1967 and President Kennedy’s wife Jacqui was staying in Woodstown House for the summer.

REVIEW: Beauty and the Beast at Presentation ConventIt’s all hands on deck for the staff and pupils of Presentation Convent for their highly entertaining production of Beauty and the Beast.

Des’s Generation X had to deal with phone boxes (when they worked), two television channels, letters, no internet or email or privacy. And mothers who terrorised their sons

REVIEW: Little Shop of Horrors at De La Salle College HallDe La Salle College’s production of Little Shop is one of the best productions I’ve seen from the college over its forty-year history.

Blue Raincoat Theatre Co. has fashioned a play about a young woman who dives for peals in an increasing hostile environment brought about by climate change

Theatre Royal: Waterford News & Star Green Room Awards 2025 Nights like this are like the old finals of Tops.