The parent companyCo-founder of Blue Raincoat theatre company and new father Niall Henry is making ambitious plans that will ensure his creative…Wed Mar 12 2008 - 00:00
StageStruckYou can't have a zoo without animals, or, to use a more dignified metaphor, a library without books, so why should it be any …Fri Jan 18 2008 - 00:00
Stage StruckHow far can you push an audience before the audience pushes back? Or, to put it another way, what will it take to make the theatre…Fri Nov 02 2007 - 00:00
A new look at the Pike Theatre censorship mysteryYou can't go back, they say. And nor, we might add, would you want toFri Oct 12 2007 - 01:00
Fine dining out in a field of gold on a menu of musical delicaciesReviews: Any event that courses with so much high-calibre music in so idyllic a location, prompts one impossible questionMon Sept 03 2007 - 01:00
ReviewsSalomé, Gate Theatre, Dublin Whose Salomé is this anyway? Can a play written in halting French, revised and corrected by a number…Thu Mar 22 2007 - 00:00
Why Bob bombed on BroadwayWHAT has Bob Dylan done to deserve this? First reports reach us from Broadway, where The Times They Are A-Changing (or, to put…Fri Nov 03 2006 - 00:00
Dancing with yourself on YouTubeIT SEEMS like a lot to pay for a glorified noticeboardFri Oct 27 2006 - 01:00
Sounds from an isolation roomDuring the worst years of the second World War, a Jewish couple in Poland sought refuge from the Nazis on a rural farmsteadMon Aug 28 2006 - 01:00
ReviewsMother Teresa is Dead Project Cube, Dublin Charity begins at home, but where does it end? For Jane, a western woman who has …Sat Aug 12 2006 - 01:00
Gambon’s gamesThe mischievous Michael Gambon has been known to spin the odd tall tale. Peter Crawley treads with cautionSat Apr 08 2006 - 01:00
Roll over Beethoven and give Tchaikovsky a restIT'S a classical idea in pop, but that doesn't make it seem any less cynical: Take a rarefied art form, dress it in contemporary…Fri Feb 10 2006 - 00:00
The Rough guide to growing new talentThe Rough Magic Seeds programme is yielding a rich crop of plays. But only after a long, hard graft, writes Peter CrawleyWed Feb 11 2004 - 00:00
Clare's trademark festival at home in exileReview: So this is how the summer ends: with a heroic collective bluffMon Sept 01 2003 - 01:00
The man with the megawatt charisma has the night of his lifeReview: Immersed in Robbie Williams's gargantuan Escapology concert, you have to continually remind yourself of its immensity…Mon Aug 11 2003 - 01:00
A rush through the quagmire to bear Witnness to the great and the goodSometimes it can be hard to bear WitnnessMon Jul 15 2002 - 01:00
Hip-hop moves to beat its bad rapAs mainstream hip-hop moves away from the explicit lyrics of the past, is it finding a strong political voice or is it as offensive…Mon Jul 08 2002 - 01:00
Jack L: The Little Universe Show Gate TheatreAiming for true melodrama, Jack Lukeman supplied the melos, while drama was co-ordinated by Barabbas theatre director Raymond…Wed May 22 2002 - 01:00
ReviewsGomez, The Ambassador Who do Gomez think they are? Nabbing the Mercury Music Award with their début recording, releasing three…Fri Apr 12 2002 - 01:00
The Icarus LineREVIEW : Conventional wisdom tells us that the more anodyne mainstream music becomes, the more likely angry avengers will arrive…Wed Mar 06 2002 - 00:00
Rover returnsWithin the first two songs of The Pogues' triumphant return, a tricolour had found its way from the audience into the free hand…Sat Dec 22 2001 - 00:00
GoldfrappThe Ambassador was an inspired choice of venue for this astonishing groupTue Dec 11 2001 - 00:00
The Saw DoctorsThis was a first. New visitors to the Maynooth campus, The Saw Doctors cautiously emerged to a raucous student audienceSat Dec 01 2001 - 00:00
Abdullah Ibrahim TrioOn Abdullah Ibrahim's entrance, a fitting hush fell on Vicar StreetTue Nov 13 2001 - 00:00
Ibrahim Ferrer/Buena Vista Social ClubAccept no substitutes. An album, a film, a band and a brand name - for many, the Buena Vista Social Club is Cuban musicThu Nov 08 2001 - 00:00
Bonnie 'Prince' BillyLow key, shambolic and with a detectable air of mischief, Will Oldham's entrance was exactly like his musicTue Oct 30 2001 - 00:00
Guys and DollsEscapist entertainment has always been popular in times of crisisFri Oct 19 2001 - 01:00
Ross Noble & Deirdre O'KaneThis show of two halves was the result of a bizarre marriage of stylesTue Oct 16 2001 - 01:00
Death Of CabaretOn the day the music died, it appears comedy slashed its wristsThu Oct 11 2001 - 01:00
RadioheadRadiohead's volte-face from sensitive tunesmiths to austere electronic production outfit may have left many out in the coldMon Sept 17 2001 - 01:00
Jeff MartinFor new singer-songwriters, the path from darkened bedroom to gloomy red spotlight leads through a minefield of clichΘsTue Sept 04 2001 - 01:00
Womanly WhimsThis second instalment in a series of monologues written and performed by women fits snugly into its offbeat spaceTue Aug 28 2001 - 01:00
Hamell On Trial'Is that him?" Knowing we were in for something special, but caught unaware by the arrival of some stocky, bespectacled, bald…Fri Aug 24 2001 - 01:00
Excellent moments in an extraordinary testament to the human spiritThe Virginia Divine ShowWed Aug 22 2001 - 01:00
