Taken Down: A major step forward for Irish television dramaReview: A sombre tale of desperate lives from Jo Spain and ‘Love/Hate’ creator Stuart CarolanSun Nov 04 2018 - 23:00
Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern IrelandSat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00
‘Sorry, I’m a little confused,’ Joan Freeman said. She wasn’t the only onePrime Time’s presidential debate had no winners – and the big losers were its viewersWed Oct 24 2018 - 08:56
The Shankill Bomb: BBC documentary dishonours the dead and the livingReview: BBC’s programme about a 1993 Belfast bomb wallows in horrific detailTue Oct 23 2018 - 12:08
A tale of two brothers: ‘Philly stayed with football. John went into drugs’‘I’d give up all my All-Irelands to have him back,’ says Philly McMahon of JohnMon Oct 22 2018 - 00:40
The Bisexual: A comedy that wants to have it both waysBrian Gleeson is the straight man in a sex comedy set among millennial LondonersThu Oct 18 2018 - 19:25
Blue Peter: Celebrating 60 years of making good little BritonsReview: The 60th anniversary programme shows it’s still based Best-of-British principlesWed Oct 17 2018 - 18:28
My Name Is Language review: A nicely shameless exercise in name-droppingDublin Theatre Festival: Strangers spill personal anecdotes in Nicoline van Harskamp’s essayistic performance pieceMon Oct 15 2018 - 12:28
Women on the Verge: Maelstrom of a comedy from Sharon HorganDid you sleep with more than two women during our break-up, she asks. ‘In a good week, yeah,” he repliesThu Oct 11 2018 - 23:13
Rathmines Road review: A compassionate imagining of one woman’s private tormentDublin Theatre Festival: A secret survivor of sexual assault encounters her rapist years laterThu Oct 11 2018 - 12:08
Amy Huberman indulges her satisfyingly filthy sense of humourReview: ‘Finding Joy’ adds a dollop of Sarah Silverman and Sharon Horgan to RTÉ comedyWed Oct 10 2018 - 22:05
The End of Eddy review: A staggering novel brought affectingly to the stageDublin Theatre Festival: Kwaku Mills and Alex Austin are engaging as Édouard Louis’s autobiographical characterWed Oct 10 2018 - 11:57
The M House review: An abundance of ideas in an inclusive, inventive productionDublin Theatre Festival: Authority, in Equinox’s witty play, is like a vertiginous ladder – there’s always someone on a higher rungTue Oct 09 2018 - 12:00
Blood: newest show from our newest TV station is one of the oldest stories in the bookTV Review: The excellent Carolina Main is just one of several reasons to watch ‘Blood’Mon Oct 08 2018 - 23:00
Crowdsourcing the drama: this week’s must-see theatre productions‘The Fever’ pulls the audience into the action and The End of Eddy pulls few punchesSat Oct 06 2018 - 05:00
Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf review: Who’s afraid of this trashy takedown?Dublin Theatre Festival: An acerbic, postmodern riff on Edward Albee’s classicFri Oct 05 2018 - 13:29
Brendan Courtney is here to solve the housing crisisReview: ‘This Crowded House’ starts as a jaunty property show, but things soon get grimWed Oct 03 2018 - 22:40
The Patient Gloria review: Revisiting therapy as an exorcising screamDublin Theatre Festival: Gina Moxley restages Gloria Szymanski’s 1965 interviews with three therapistsMon Oct 01 2018 - 14:38
The Lost O’Casey review: An urgent understanding of contemporary DublinDublin Theatre Festival: Anu’s immersive production sends characters and audience spinning through a disappearing cityMon Oct 01 2018 - 11:08
Fantasia review: A kind of inverse conjuring actDublin Theatre Festival: Is Polish theatre retreating from political engagement? Anna Karasinska’s deceptively simple production treads carefullyMon Oct 01 2018 - 10:37
Presidential debate: Michael D and Sean Gallagher weren't there. Claire Byrne was barely thereArguably the most enthusiastic contributor to ‘Claire Byrne Live’ is cut off by an ad breakMon Oct 01 2018 - 01:50
Bertie Ahern hears a lot of family history but learns little from it, in ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’Review: Programme reveals painful splits in the branches of Bertie Ahern’s family treeSun Sept 30 2018 - 22:35
Theatre of the week: Misogynistic therapy, and a neglected Sean O’Casey playTwo new productions at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival re-examine old art worksSat Sept 29 2018 - 05:00
Hamlet review: Ruth Negga stars in an oddly one-note interpretationDublin Theatre Festival: Yaël Farber hones play’s divisions into survey of allies and enemiesFri Sept 28 2018 - 12:53
DruidShakespeare: Richard III review – Striking, intoxicating, disturbingGarry Hynes’s production is like a horror show seen through a haze of laughing gasThu Sept 27 2018 - 13:17
If this doesn’t make you get the flu jab, nothing willReview: ‘The Flu That Killed 50 Million’ is a riveting chronicle of the 1918 pandemicWed Sept 26 2018 - 12:12
Directing Ruth Negga as Hamlet: ‘Theatre either puts you to sleep or wakes you up’South Africa’s Yaël Farber, who cast Ruth Negga, is accustomed to fresh perspectivesWed Sept 26 2018 - 05:00
The Bailout: One day we’ll look back and laugh. But not yetReview: Colin Murphy’s politicians try to get their heads around an €85bn disasterTue Sept 25 2018 - 11:35
Maniac: Emma Stone and Jonah Hill in a crazy world, like oursReview: If you liked Black Mirror, you might enjoy this time-warped Netflix thrillerFri Sept 21 2018 - 09:00
The Cat’s Mother review: A dark comedy dressed up in hot pinksDublin Fringe Festival: Sisters contemplate putting their senile mother out of her miseryThu Sept 20 2018 - 16:04
Shame review: Strutting like a punk diva through a lifetime of self-doubtDublin Fringe Festival: Pom Boyd confronts family demons in an absorbing autobiographical showThu Sept 20 2018 - 13:28
My Sponsored Life review: I’m a social influencer. I know how mad that soundsVogue Williams meets her fellow social influencers Perez Hilton and the Saccone JolysThu Sept 20 2018 - 09:10
Trial of the Centurys review: An adorably awful comedy musicalDublin Fringe Festival: Trelliot, twin-brother pop stars who fell to earth, get their day in a cardboard courtWed Sept 19 2018 - 12:38
Who is Dublin for? Who do we want to share it with?Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White on Arts Council rows and Ireland’s cultural deficitsWed Sept 19 2018 - 05:00
Orla Tinsley: A beacon of best-life positivity through every setbackReview: ‘Orla Tinsley: Warrior’ depicts incredible resilience against grinding circumstanceTue Sept 18 2018 - 11:22
Lex Talionis review: A bird’s-eye view of revenge tragedyDublin Fringe Festival: Excellent performances make Liam Heylin’s pithy new play flyMon Sept 17 2018 - 15:02
The Money review: Human nature on absorbing, infuriating displayDublin Fringe Festival: What’s at stake in Kaleider’s ‘showgame’, cash or democracy?Mon Sept 17 2018 - 14:45
Beat review: A sharp Dublin hip-hop drama for the ‘Hamilton’ generationDublin Fringe Festival: Fionntán Larney’s debut is spry, considered and sophisticatedMon Sept 17 2018 - 14:33
Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard IIIFor director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back yearsSat Sept 15 2018 - 05:00
The Rotunda: Behind the scenes at the world’s oldest maternity hospitalJoy, humour, agony – all human life is on show in RTÉ’s portrait of the Dublin hospitalFri Sept 14 2018 - 01:32
Everything Can Be Dismantled review: a rehearsal for change amid the housing crisisDublin Fringe Festival: During yet another housing flashpoint, a new collective asks us to imagine alternatives by trying out alternative structuresThu Sept 13 2018 - 10:35
The lives of sex workers, with all the boring bits left inThe Deuce review: Maggie Gyllenhaal and James Franco return in the 1970s-set porn dramaWed Sept 12 2018 - 16:19
Madhouse review: PJ Gallagher’s gently comic coming-of-age storyDublin Fringe Festival: Who are we to stigmatise mental disorder, the comedian asksWed Sept 12 2018 - 12:15
Dreamgun Film Reads – The Fringe Binge review: Merciless, hilariousDublin Fringe Festival: Blockbuster scripts get rapid-fire rewrites and crackling unrehearsed performancesWed Sept 12 2018 - 11:26
A Holy Show review: Giddy nostalgia, at comedy-deflating lengthDublin Fringe Festival: Janet Moran’s show is based on the Aer Lingus hijacking of 1981Tue Sept 11 2018 - 13:03
Oneday review: An absorbing experiment, both arch and obsessionalWhat happened on March 13th, 2012? Dick Walsh makes it his mission to knowTue Sept 11 2018 - 10:49
Fable review: Tentative steps towards uniting street dance and storytellingDublin Fringe Festival: Some narrative techniques are a stretch too far for these skilled dancersMon Sept 10 2018 - 11:12
Everything I Do review: Heartbreak goes solo in this ‘live concept album’Dublin Fringe Festival: The end of love feels like a broken record for Zoe Ní RiordáinMon Sept 10 2018 - 10:50
Damien Dempsey: A Protestant? Mise? I’m afraid so‘Who Do You Think You Are?’ review: The singer has a whole national history in his gene poolMon Sept 10 2018 - 09:50
Ruth McGowan: making Dublin Fringe Festival more party than artyThe event’s new artistic director has some questions for the city. Is it listening?Sat Sept 08 2018 - 05:00
