Arena

Americans Anonymous – a handsome book of John O’Donnell's poems twinned with Barry Delaney's portraits, Jack O’Rourke is a singer and songwriter from Cork city, His latest album is Wild Place, The White Handkerchief is a new play from writer Liam Campbell, which tells the story of the victims of Bloody Sunday.

Fidelio is Beethoven’s only opera, Irish National Opera will stage a production of the work at the Gaiety Theatre, artistic director Fergus Sheil & director Annabelle Comyn, John Banville on his latest novel, April in Spain, Unseen Plays is a series of weekly podcasts by the Abbey Theatre featuring lesser-known plays by Lady Gregory & WB Yeats.

In his debut collection of short stories, 'Disappearing Act', actor Robert Sheehan reflects on the absurdity of human behaviour, Rob Doyle's latest book is non-fiction, an account of 52 books he read in a year, from Susan Sontag to Martin Amis, Kate Brennan Harding and Pat Carty review the latest albums from Ed Sheeran to Tori Amos.

Film reviews: Last Night in Soho, Passing, The Rescue - Terence Davies - Paul Muldoon's Howdie-Skelp

The RTÉ Concert Orchestra is staging a special concert for Halloween, Spooktacular is conducted by Stephen Bell, Arena is championing Nuala O’Connor’s book Nora for the Audience Choice Award, Nuala retrace Joyce & Barnacle's first date in Dublin, 'The History of Wexford Festival Opera with Dr Karina Daly, Chris Wasser on the films of Edgar Wright.

Ruth Negga on her latest role in Passing, the film tells the story of two black women, who can "pass" as white but choose to live on opposite sides of the colour line, Sinéad Gleeson reviews 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan, Colm Keegan, judge of the Waterford Poetry Prize & Ingrid Casey, the overall winner.

The 47th Saturday a short opera by composer, Andrew Synnott, Pipeworks continues this week with a concert from Daniel Moult, Album reviews with Andrea Cleary & Simon Maher, from Self Esteem, the experimental pop project of British musician, singer & songwriter, Rebecca Lucy Taylor, Lana Del Rey, Biffy Clyro.

Ruth Barton & Donald Clarke review films, from Dune with Timothee Chalamet to Wes Anderson's The French Dispatch, Straight to Video is a new comedy by Emmet Kirwan set in Tallaght in 1995 in a video shop, Civic Theatre from October 28th, directed by Philly McMahon, Chris Wasser reviews Invasion, a new sci-fi series starring Sam Neill.

Six decades on, West Side Story remains unrivalled, Jamie Bernstein, author of the book, Famous Father Girl, talks about the impact of her father Leonard Bernstein, Lise Hand reviews American Crime Story: Impeachment, Krapp’s Last Tape is one of Samuel Beckett’s best-loved plays, Denis Conway on appearing at the Everyman Theatre in the iconic role

Irish tenor Gavan Ring has put together a gala concert in conjunction with the Daniel O’Connell Summer School, Liberation takes place this Saturday, critics Helen Meany and Peter Crawley look back at five of the shows they have seen at Dublin Theatre Festival. From Anu's Book of Names to Phillip McMahon’s play Once Before I Go at the Gate.