‘The Handmaid’s Tale’ finale: stunning, intoxicating, unnervingThe series adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel has given birth to a real-world armyMon Jul 31 2017 - 11:45
Cover My Tracks review: Goodnight Galway, there will be no encoreCharlie Fink and David Greig’s smart, subtle collaboration depicts a relationship, a separation and a hard act to followFri Jul 28 2017 - 11:50
Top of the Lake review: Kidman is superb, and Moss is compellingJane Campion’s superb detective drama returns to BBCThu Jul 27 2017 - 22:00
Survivor stories from Britain’s gay witch huntsAgainst the Law review:: One interviewee was well informed about the Wolfenden committee because he was sleeping with the son of its chairmanThu Jul 27 2017 - 11:59
The best theatre to see this weekJimmy’s Hall, Tennessee Williams and some fresh RivalsWed Jul 26 2017 - 11:00
‘Jimmy’s Hall’ review: Movement presented as political dissentJimmy Gralton was infamously deported from his own country for giving his community a space for dancing and revolutionary ideas. There’s more room for the former than the latter in the Abbey’s handsome, musical and nostalgic telling of his taleWed Jul 26 2017 - 11:00
Dublin Theatre Festival announces its 60th anniversary programmeFestival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’Tue Jul 25 2017 - 16:57
Aaron Monaghan: Fighting talk and picking partsThe Druid stalwart nearly gave up acting in the wake of DruidMurphy but he's kept working to improve himself and his art. “It’s like sparring,” he saysTue Jul 25 2017 - 05:00
Game of Thrones, episode 2: Bloody, brutal and lovely to watchWho can you trust these days in war-torn, backstabbing, deeply divided Westeros?Mon Jul 24 2017 - 22:00
Angela’s Ashes: The Musical – Are we ready to look back on hard times and smile?The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threatsMon Jul 24 2017 - 14:52
Tristan and Yseult review: playful ingenuity in a story of loveKneehigh’s shipshape, fleet production comes closer to home at the Galway International Arts FestivalFri Jul 21 2017 - 17:27
Ozark review: A show with plenty of ideas, none of them originalJason Bateman plays a straitlaced man who turns to crime in desperate times. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before ...Fri Jul 21 2017 - 14:00
Escape the weather with our theatre recommendationsSex and violins from Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy, and Limerick’s own Les MisThu Jul 20 2017 - 11:00
Crestfall review: An unnecessary dip into depravityMark O’Rowe’s unloved and long unpublished play has finally returned from the dark. Perhaps it might have stayed thereWed Jul 19 2017 - 16:53
In The Dark review: A detective hot on the trail of her own damageThis BBC shows presents us with a crime and a detective that both need to be solvedWed Jul 19 2017 - 13:43
Woyzeck in Winter: A male mind sent brutally out of tuneWoyzeck and Schubert meet in a lambent, music-hall spectacleTue Jul 18 2017 - 17:22
Game of Thrones season 7, episode 1: Crackling with energyThe first episode of the new season arrives into a changed world and women are on the warpathMon Jul 17 2017 - 20:01
Game of Thrones recap: here’s what you need to knowAs the new season starts, here's the state of play in Westeros and beyondMon Jul 17 2017 - 06:30
Should we call time on drink sponsorship of the arts?Culture Shock: The Gate’s ‘Great Gatsby’ immerses the audience in alcohol, and not just in the playSat Jul 15 2017 - 05:00
Emma Rice: ‘Theatres are modern day churches’At a bleak time to live in London, the Globe artistic director decided to base her farewell season around loveSat Jul 15 2017 - 05:00
Friends from College on Netflix - more adults who refuse to grow upMopey Xennials get together for a 20-year college reunion and hover between Gen X cynicism and Millennial optimismFri Jul 14 2017 - 10:00
The Great Gatsby at the Gate: a magnificently entertaining, dizzying partyThe audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive productionThu Jul 13 2017 - 17:02
Theatre highlights for the week aheadThe Galway Arts Festival celebrates its 40th anniversary with an ambitious, wide-ranging programmeThu Jul 13 2017 - 11:00
'Once you step over the threshold, you enter Gatsby’s mansion'Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the doorThu Jul 13 2017 - 05:00
Two Pints review: The bar is a sanctuary, but we are all moving towards last ordersRoddy Doyle’s series finds skilful new shape in the Abbey’s pub-crawling two-handerWed Jul 12 2017 - 19:39
Access all areas to the life of Christy Dignam in this powerful documentaryThis Is Christy review: Music is more than a source of succour in this part biography, part tour diary of the Aslan frontman Christy DignamWed Jul 12 2017 - 09:40
No one upstages Francis Brennan, not the sights, not the guestsFrancis Brennan’s Grand Tour of Vietnam review: If you ever sat through someone else’s holiday snaps, you’ll know the feelingMon Jul 10 2017 - 11:08
‘Game of Thrones’: A to Z guideAhead of season seven, here’s everything you need to know about the ground-breaking fantasy dramaSat Jul 08 2017 - 06:00
El Chapo review: All the charisma of a spent bullet casingThe Netflix show can’t discern between the gravity of fact and the thrill of fictionThu Jul 06 2017 - 13:00
The best theatre shows to catch this weekIf the nation does not come to the theatre, the theatre must go out to the nationThu Jul 06 2017 - 07:00
Canadian Kris Nelson to leave the Dublin Fringe Festival for London's LiftDublin festival is now seeking a new artistic director and a new general managerWed Jul 05 2017 - 11:00
Nathan goes to Nashville review: the only country singer who doesn’t suffer for his artA city of constant professionalism, Nashville should suit the Irish country music star just fineTue Jul 04 2017 - 22:35
John Giles review: ‘I didn’t consider myself Irish’To play soccer in 1950s Ireland was to defy a nationalist agenda. John Giles had plenty to renounceMon Jul 03 2017 - 22:36
Gypsy review: sex, lies and that empty feelingNaomi Watts and Billy Crudup get lost down rabbit hole of mind gamesFri Jun 30 2017 - 08:00
A last-ditch attempt to stave off extinction as Sudan goes on TinderA documentary on the last male of the northern white rhinoceros can’t decide to proceed with a light step or a heavy heartWed Jun 28 2017 - 22:00
Portrait of a Gallery review: a brilliant piece of art criticismIn this documentary, the National Gallery gets a depiction worthy of its renovationWed Jun 28 2017 - 09:51
Abbey’s production of Room struggles in ‘the stinky world’The songs in this adaptation are curiously conventional for an unconventional pieceTue Jun 27 2017 - 16:22
Peace or oppression? What our vision of the future says about usCulture Shock: ‘Futureproof’ shows how prescient it can be to imagine the worstSat Jun 24 2017 - 05:00
GLOW: Wrestling with their own female stereotypesSecond-wave feminism gets Reagan-era chauvinism into a headlock in this enjoyable confection about empowerment and the mediaFri Jun 23 2017 - 07:05
‘When I have to give up the driving, I hope I die fairly quickly’TV review: Too Old For the Road? quickly becomes a vehicle for wider, poignant considerationsMon Jun 19 2017 - 22:30
Redwater finale: a cliched vision of Ireland right to the endFestering with secrets and toxic family dynamics, it’s easier to get into Redwater than it is to ever leave it. Unless you’re a viewerSun Jun 18 2017 - 22:48
Riviera review: Cheap thrills in a glamorous worldIt’s a quality show that could also pass as a satire on the budgets of prestige televisionThu Jun 15 2017 - 22:00
Fearless review: no case is too big, no detail too smallA breathless show that fast-tracks every plot and character and goes all the way to the topWed Jun 14 2017 - 23:00
No’s Knife review: Lisa Dwan goes on with Beckett reduxThe actor gives Beckett’s words a more aggressive, tortured readingTue Jun 13 2017 - 11:00
Redwater: Overheated, overcooked, and why are they over here?The knotty TV drama shot in Dunmore East is nearing its conclusionMon Jun 12 2017 - 11:01
I Am a Bird review: A bruising encounter in which bodies are torn asunderRoss Gaynor’s tough monologue is set in the aftermath of a terrorist attackFri Jun 09 2017 - 15:44
OITNB review: Riot girls trying to get the world to careThe clock is ticking for Piper, but she stopped being the show’s star long agoFri Jun 09 2017 - 14:48
Missing You: ‘How can you not be common if you come from Pearse Street?’Missing You, a patchwork of recorded Skype calls between Irish friends and families across the world, provides intimate access to the contemporary DiasporaThu Jun 08 2017 - 11:00
Minding Frankie: Maeve Binchy’s bittersweet novel comes to the stageShay Linehan’s adaptation yanks hard on the heartstrings throughout its benign performanceWed Jun 07 2017 - 13:00
Paula review: a TV show as promiscuous as its protagonistConor McPherson’s shape-shifting drama bears the consequences of Paula’s own double lifeWed Jun 07 2017 - 11:00
