Children’s fiction: Spooky stories, family fantasies, emotional monsters and a friendless Megalosaurus
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical: ‘Making a movie is a corporate endeavour. Theatre is a family endeavour’
The stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular film is about to begin a two-month run at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
Elizabeth Shaw: Belfast-born writer who left Ireland young and found fame in Germany
A new English edition of Shaw’s memoir reveals how she became a household name in Berlin with a children’s classic
Storyteller - The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson: An existence almost as full of incident as his books
Leo Damrosch is less interested in decoding Stevenson’s oeuvre than in tracing his life
Children’s fiction: New and reprinted titles from Mary Murphy, Raymond Briggs, Oscar Wilde and more
A fearless explorer arrives on Earth, postwar childhood tales and classics to bewitch a new generation
Calamity Jane at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre review: High-quality comfort entertainment
Leave any doubts about the plot at the door and instead indulge the singalong pleasures of classic songs
Fiddler on the Roof in Dublin: ‘That it is always relevant and feels extra potent right now is beyond tragic’
Fiddler on the Roof is coming to Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, in a new production by Jordan Fein
Little Shop of Horrors review: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s first homegrown show is a sure-footed take on the cult musical
Jacqueline Brunton and David O’Reilly star in a production that leans into the campest qualities of Ashman and Menken’s modern fairy tale
Children’s fiction: The Moon Seeker is a wildly original debut and worthy Staróg prize-winner
Plus: The Nightmare Club by Annie Graves; Taking the Long Way Home by Jake Hope; Our Pebbles by Jarvis; Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton, and more
Dublin’s biggest theatre is staging its first production. Will its Little Shop of Horrors pull off a coup?
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre normally welcomes West End shows. It’s no small task to mount the venue’s first homegrown production, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s comedy-horror musical
Six in Dublin review: Henry VIII’s wives are recast as pop princesses. One above all deserves the crown
Theatre: On a hot first night, the cast of this well-oiled touring production has to work hard to win the audience over
‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born
Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
Children’s fiction: if trees could talk, what would they say?
Eoin McLaughlin’s Once I Was a Tree gives the natural world its own voice; plus two fun titles from a new Irish publisher
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe review: Narnia adaptation is a thrilling testament to the wonder of live theatre
Michael Fentiman’s touring production is deeply thoughtful in its approach to staging CS Lewis’s classic children’s book
Myra’s Story review: Belching and scratching, Myra admirably refuses to apologise for her descent into alcoholism and homelessness
Two doors up from the Gaiety Theatre a homeless man is stretched out on the footpath, invisible to theatregoers keen to get to their seats before the curtain call. Inside the ornate Victorian theatre Myra Hennessy holds a similarly supine position on the stage, her head resting on a bag stuffed full of her possessions. “Look me in the eye,” she says as she harangues an imaginary pedestrian who refuses to engage with her request for spare change