If We Got Some More Cocaine: On top of the world with nowhere to goTwo young men get higher than they’ve ever been in John O’Donovan’s new play and wonder about how to come downWed Jan 31 2018 - 13:22
Bullying, demeaning and harassing women: Look Back in Anger at The GateJohn Osborne’s aggressive scourge Jimmy Porter is about to appear in the GateTue Jan 30 2018 - 05:00
The best theatre shows this weekOsborne’s ‘Look back in Anger’ returns to the Gate, and a new work from Mark O’RoweSat Jan 27 2018 - 06:00
‘Baby Hater’: You’re never your own person againComedian Joanne McNally is ‘80% certain’ that she doesn’t want to have childrenWed Jan 24 2018 - 22:00
A day in the life of Ireland’s food supplyWe spend €20m a day on snacks, serve 3m portions of chicken, drink 15m cups of teaTue Jan 23 2018 - 17:45
Red Rock: TV3 show’s biggest cliff-hanger is its own futureReview: It would be a shame to wind down this expertly made, well written garda dramaMon Jan 22 2018 - 22:15
The best theatre shows this weekA Dublin Theatre Festival hit transfers to the Abbeywhile a young company sees if there’s new life in the Dublin monologue formSat Jan 20 2018 - 07:00
Britannia: A half-baked substitute for Game of ThronesAt a time when Britain’s identity is in crisis, Britannia belatedly attempts to construct oneFri Jan 19 2018 - 08:42
Belle and Sebastian: How to Solve Our Human Problems Part 2 – soft and sweet in the middleThe second in a suite of three EPs from Glasgow’s elder statesmen of indie pop meanders between propulsive psychedelia and relentlessly pleasant easy listeningFri Jan 19 2018 - 05:00
Millionaires’ Ex-Wives Club: A TV show with commitment issuesReview: These two jaw-dropping break-up stories would really be better off apartWed Jan 17 2018 - 22:15
Next of Kin: Vivid terrorist drama soaked in detailThe series’ strengths are its characters, its realism and its jagged street geographyTue Jan 16 2018 - 09:30
Frowning, worried George Lee seems allergic to silver liningsMaking dire forecasts about Brexit and agribusiness, George Lee is in his elementMon Jan 15 2018 - 23:02
The best theatre shows this weekFrom the giddy highs to the worrying lows, or a rooftop to a grave, this week's theatre highlights span the course of a lifetime.Sat Jan 13 2018 - 07:00
‘The Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards 2017: The view from the judges’ seatsAfter a year of crisis and new beginnings, the awards lay down a markerSat Jan 13 2018 - 06:00
1990s Derry seen through the eyes of a 16-year-old girl‘Derry Girls’ is a zippy comedy whose teen stars have bigger troubles than the TroublesThu Jan 11 2018 - 22:39
‘Punish me, ravish me, cleanse me’ – Vikings returnsI know what happens next. They kidnap the Irish, send them to Iceland and create BjorkWed Jan 10 2018 - 22:45
First Dates Ireland: ‘You’re a bit infatuated with yourself’The show’s real magic is when a date turns into mutual loathingTue Jan 09 2018 - 23:25
Striking Out: starring Amy Huberman and a wholly unfamiliar DublinThe law drama is so style-conscious it often resembles an advertisement for itselfMon Jan 08 2018 - 11:37
The best theatre shows this week: First Fortnight festivalFestival promoting mental health awareness returns with performances of comedy, audience interaction and survivalFri Jan 05 2018 - 07:30
Celebrity Home of the Year: David Norris’s restored Georgian comes top of the pileJudging people’s homes has long been a national pastime – add a whiff of celebrity and judges lose the run of themselvesTue Jan 02 2018 - 22:45
Grandpa’s Great Escape review: the show is determinedly escapistDavid Walliam’s children’s story works like a memory game through the eyes of Generation XTue Jan 02 2018 - 15:27
McMafia review: Family tragedy and organised crime intertwineLavishly-made crime thriller takes in political intrigue, high finance and human traffickingTue Jan 02 2018 - 08:24
From Derry Girls to Cork offenders: unmissable TV for 2018Ring out (or recommission) the old; ring in the new: here’s what to stay tuned for in the new yearSat Dec 30 2017 - 05:00
Black Mirror Season 4 review: just as dark but with a sliver of hopeNow that some of its more fearful prophecies have come to pass, an uneven new series suggests ways to fight backFri Dec 29 2017 - 11:20
Theatre highlights of the weekSome nicknames stick forever, just ask the stars of this week’s stage. Remember to wash your hands thoughFri Dec 29 2017 - 05:00
Theatre highlights of the week ending December 24thIn this weeks’s theatre, a frightful creature becomes a useful friend, an old fable is laced up to fit new times, and one eccentric Dubliner finally becomes a legendFri Dec 22 2017 - 05:00
Baz and Nancy’s Holy Show chances its way towards a miraculous encounterCan Baz Ashmawy blag his way into the pope’s inner circle?Wed Dec 20 2017 - 22:30
U2 at the BBC review: carefully preserved, they never get old, always the sameU2 try to seem humble in this interview featuring the modest travel habits of EverybonoWed Dec 20 2017 - 09:51
League of Gentlemen review: Royston Vasey returns for a 20th anniversaryAs Royston Vasey slips off the map, the country around it is sliding into nowhereMon Dec 18 2017 - 23:00
Tunnel vision: Sky’s Scandi series heads for its last seriesCan we trace the current fracture in international relations right back to a single television show?Sat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
The Ticket results: The year’s best TVVoters and Ticket critics come together in a revealingly sloshy meeting of mindsSat Dec 16 2017 - 05:00
Theatre highlights of week ending Dec 24It’s a time for hardy endurance and miraculous returns this weekFri Dec 15 2017 - 05:00
Serial Killer with Piers Morgan: Neither man will admit to what they areIn an interview conducted between a suspected serial killer and a suspected journalist neither comes out wellTue Dec 12 2017 - 11:00
Dermot Bannon’s New York: He thinks he owns the placeTV Review: The architect's trip to New York seems to go straight to his headMon Dec 11 2017 - 11:00
They Called Her Vivaldi review: A rich and charming symphonyTheatre Lovett have created a delightful comedy about loss and self-relianceSat Dec 09 2017 - 15:03
The Grand Tour review: Three ageing men slowly come to terms with deathClarkson is jowlier, May is puffier, and Hammond looks clenched and constipatedSat Dec 09 2017 - 14:51
The Red Shoes: A freestyle approach to a dark and charming fairytaleIn the Gate’s dark Christmas spectacle, a bold retelling tries on an old fairytale for sizeFri Dec 08 2017 - 10:36
The Crown review: her majesty, the media starIn a regally absorbing new series queen Elizabeth II prepares to spend the rest of her life on televisionFri Dec 08 2017 - 10:00
The best theatre shows of the weekRemembering ‘The Simpsons’ as a dark comedy with serious heft, keeping a seasonal Dickens classic warm with cheer, and recalling Cinderella’s origin storyFri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00
Mr Burns review: Rebuilding humanity, one Simpsons episode at a timeAnne Washburn’s wackily serious play imagines the survivors of a nuclear holocaust struggling to remember Simpsons episodes by the post-apocalyptic campfireThu Dec 07 2017 - 14:49
What does Gabriel Byrne see in George Bernard Shaw?In ‘My Astonishing Self’, the actor follows shyly in Shaw’s footsteps. But what draws GB to GBS?Thu Dec 07 2017 - 11:00
Charlie Bird: Yesterday’s news is beyond yesterday’s news manTV Review: RTÉ’s retired reporter brings a blunt approach to historical storiesTue Dec 05 2017 - 22:37
Ticket Awards 2017: The best television of the yearIt’s hard to think of a show that chimed as much with the moment as ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’Sat Dec 02 2017 - 05:00
The best theatre shows: The Red Shoes opens at the GateTheatre Lovett ’s ‘They Called Her Vivaldi’ is at the Peacock and and a new play ‘Philip St John’ opensSat Dec 02 2017 - 04:00
Late Late Toy Show: you’d need a cold heart to be unmovedTV review: The children grow up before our eyes, while Tubridy lets himself be a kidFri Dec 01 2017 - 22:30
Godless review: Crack the damn whip alreadyA ruthless gunslinger discovers his limits in the meandering new western miniseriesWed Nov 29 2017 - 15:00
Abbey Theatre reveals new seasonThe Abbey Theatre’s directors Graham McLaren and Neil Murray on their second programme, forging new collaborations and looking for new forms of theatreWed Nov 29 2017 - 05:00
‘I want to understand the anger in the world’John Tiffany is the genial man behind the Abbey’s ‘Let the Right One In’, is also the most sought-after director in the worldTue Nov 28 2017 - 05:00
Let the Right One In review: black magic combination of tenderness and brutalityThe West End hit at the Abbey hovers somewhere between fairy tale and horror storyFri Nov 24 2017 - 12:58
