Lost Lear review: Layered retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy set in a nursing homeDublin Theatre Festival 2022: Venetia Bowe gives a heart-crushing performance of emotional power and physical prowessMon Oct 03 2022 - 11:28
Good Sex review: Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funnyDublin Theatre Festival: This ingenious production from Emilie Pine and Dead Centre celebrates physical intimacy and the live experienceFri Sept 30 2022 - 11:35
How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons review: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s bewitching dance theatreDublin Theatre Festival: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s at times bewildering show builds slowly into something very specialThu Sept 29 2022 - 16:09
Inspired by Ulysses, Emilie Pine and Anu stage a site-specific performance at Holles Street maternity hospitalAll Hardest of Woman engages with a passage in Jame Joyce’s epic novel to explore women’s experiences in the Dublin buildingWed Sept 28 2022 - 05:00
Joyce’s Women review: In Edna O’Brien’s new play, the epiphany James Joyce sought never comesDublin Theatre Festival 2022: Despite the Joyce’s Women title, this is ultimately his play, not theirsFri Sept 23 2022 - 14:44
Gull review: On a meander through Dublin, the subtle power of this piece becomes clearDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Shanna May Breen’s thoughtful, meditative environmental intervention directs our attention to our relationship with the cityFri Sept 23 2022 - 14:40
Fluff review: Sex workers’ hidden lives laid bareDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Lianne O’Hara’s debut play amplifies the voices of those who choose to make a living with their bodyFri Sept 23 2022 - 09:25
Conviction review: Battling inner demons in a graveyardDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Eva O’Connor’s strength is her sardonic tone, which infuses much of this audio drama about self-belief, self-doubt and sisterly loveWed Sept 21 2022 - 13:17
He’s Perfect review: A highly personal interrogation of sexualityDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conor Cupples’s monologue contains much to admire — sometimes a bit too much, in factWed Sept 21 2022 - 10:15
Festival fun: A bumper harvest of children’s shows is on the way this autumnBaboró, Bualadh Bos, Dublin Theatre Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival have a packed programme of theatre for youngstersWed Sept 21 2022 - 05:00
Eugene O’Brien embraces the energy that working outside of his comfort zone offersThe writer discusses his debut novel, Going Back, a Pure Mule sequel, and two new playsSat Sept 17 2022 - 05:00
The Mothership review: A comic journey through parenthood, with two hilarious hostsDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Bright Club’s production is momcom with a little bit of science thrown inFri Sept 16 2022 - 11:24
The Perfect Immigrant review: Vibes and banter from an imperfect sonDublin Fringe Festival 2022: ‘Poem plays’ provide tonal interludes to one-man confessional structureWed Sept 14 2022 - 10:21
Animals at Dublin Theatre Festival: Putting a new skin on Orwell’s fableLouise White’s play takes Animal Farm as a starting point for examining contemporary privilege and powerTue Sept 13 2022 - 05:00
Hive City Legacy review: Full of raucous joyDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Women of colour ask ‘How Irish are you?’Mon Sept 12 2022 - 14:18
Beyond Survival School Bus review: Take a trip to the marginsDublin Fringe Festival 2022: All aboard for a live experiment for the endtimesMon Sept 12 2022 - 13:10
Accents review: From boy to man to fatherDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conviction in tightly controlled chaosMon Sept 12 2022 - 11:31
Wake review: Thisispopbaby’s brilliant new show is like Riverdance for club queensDublin Fringe Festival 2022: Jennifer Jennings, Phillip McMahon and Niall Sweeney find new life in old traditionsMon Sept 12 2022 - 11:03
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: 10 world-class shows to catchSara Keating on the shows to see at this year’s festival, from September 29th to October 16thMon Sept 12 2022 - 05:00
Mespil in the Dark Live: Pan Pan get meta with this play about theatreFirst shown as a film during the pandemic, this is terrific fun, though the effect is distancing rather than absorbingWed Sept 07 2022 - 19:12
Dark songs from the edge of the worldPerformance Corporation’s new site-specific work is inspired by tales of exile from MayoMon Aug 29 2022 - 08:20
The Tempest: rough magic in KilkennyLynne Parker has sculpted an easily digestible and streamlined story from Shakespeare’s notoriously convoluted plotWed Aug 10 2022 - 14:20
In Rhythms: an urbanly cool Kilkenny Arts Festival performance Review: Loosysmokes’ dance show feels at once nostalgic for the past and portentous of the futureWed Aug 10 2022 - 14:02
Tim Rice: How Andrew Lloyd Webber and I made Joseph a hit The musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat is coming to Dublin, aged 50Sat Aug 06 2022 - 05:00
Children’s books: Which classic fairy tale hero are you?From Natalia O’Hara’s choose-your-own-adventure book to Claire Mulligan’s big-screen sense of adventureFri Jul 29 2022 - 05:00
Willie White: ‘We need the arts if Dublin is to thrive’Dublin Theatre Festival’s director reflects on the festival’s role in the capital’s culture during line-up revealWed Jul 27 2022 - 10:00
Dance that floats down the river as the world goes by Dancer Luke Murphy talks about the inspiration for and success of Volcano, and how his new show on a floating stage aims to change the way we interact with danceSat Jul 23 2022 - 06:00
Iron Annie review: Scuzzy, anarchic gig theatreStudy of youth, queer love, and two damaged young women in a border townFri Jul 22 2022 - 19:00
Poetry finds a superpower in the ordinary, everyday things of pandemic family life An inter-generational project of at Draíocht in Blanchardstown during lockdown tapped a nerveMon Jul 18 2022 - 06:00
Eleanor Methven: A sorcerer of the stageFor Methven, who stars as Prospero in Rough Magic’s The Tempest, the rehearsal room is the beating heart of a theatre productionSat Jul 16 2022 - 06:16
True West: The big surprise is how relevant Sam Shepard’s play still feelsGalway International Arts Festival review: Casting of Jon Michael Hill and Namir Smallwood brings an immediate freshness to the workThu Jul 14 2022 - 09:51
The Last Return: Sonya Kelly has crafted a shocking and very funny playReview: It will make you think twice about what high culture means in the world outside the theatre buildingWed Jul 13 2022 - 11:16
From a Low and Quiet Sea: A reckoning of sins, secrets and sacrificeReview: Galway International Arts Festival premieres staging of Donal Ryan’s novelTue Jul 12 2022 - 15:52
Ghostly echoes as The Steward of Christendom finally returns to the stagePlaywright Sebastian Barry and star Owen Roe can feel the presence of the late Donal McCann as they bring a masterpiece back to lifeSat Jul 09 2022 - 06:00
I Poured the Tea: A sometimes confusing but ambitious debutTheatre review: The script is full of red herrings and late-stage exposition that have little bearing on the narrativeFri Jul 08 2022 - 10:17
Geoff Sobelle: ‘I imagined all these roommates, just separated in time not in space, leaving marks for one another’Home is a visual physical spectacle that combines choreography, live music, illusion and audience interaction to interrogate the idea of homeTue Jul 05 2022 - 06:00
Thrown a LifeLine: ‘Every week there was another death. Everybody was asking the same thing: What can we do about the river?’In response to Galway’s high suicide rate, more than 150 participants will tightrope-walk across the Corrib this month, to help turn it from a site of grief to a place of creativity and celebrationSat Jul 02 2022 - 06:00
The Last Return set to explore the tension of queuing at Galway Arts FestivalDirector Sara Joyce and writer Sonya Kelly bring ‘an enormously triggering scenario’ to the stageSat Jun 25 2022 - 06:00
Party Scene: The buzz and burn-out of drug-enhanced sexual encountersReview: Philip Connaughton and Phillip McMahon have collaborated on this Thisispopbaby productionFri Jun 24 2022 - 11:54
Backstage with Cirque du Soleil as the show takes flight againSara Keating goes behind the scenes in Split of the Montreal-based troupe’s latest showSat Jun 18 2022 - 06:01
The Tin Soldier: A visual and technical delightThe aesthetic pleasures of this production more than compensate for an occasional lack of narrative clarityWed Jun 15 2022 - 18:50
The Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards 2022: All the winners revealedSix months ago Ireland’s theatre world was in lockdown. Tonight felt like a big win for the entire creative communitySun Jun 12 2022 - 22:00
Swansong: A good starting point for a meaningful conversation about deathReview: Simple clarity runs through the conversation of the characters in a beautiful fairytaleTue Jun 07 2022 - 16:54
Party Scene: dance theatre explores chemsex scene in Dublin and beyondPhilip Connaughton and Phillip McMahon on their latest ThisIsPopBaby projectSat Jun 04 2022 - 00:00
The Cavalcaders: unnervingly upbeat drama will have you singingDruid’s new production of Billy Roche’s play hits the right notesMon May 30 2022 - 13:55
Blackbird: A tense and riveting two-handerAndrew Flynn’s production brings a stark moral clarityFri May 27 2022 - 19:00
Climate change: ‘How can art inform people without depressing them?’Future Limerick, Ireland’s first climate arts festival brings together like-minded creativesTue May 10 2022 - 05:00
Luck Just Kissed You Hello: What is it to be a man?Ideals of masculinity found wanting in Amy Conroy’s playFri May 06 2022 - 09:34
Has a Ukrainian child recently joined your child’s class? Here’s the book to readA new picturebook places the experience of forced migration at its centreWed May 04 2022 - 06:00
Children’s theatre at a garden oasis in Dublin’s North StrandActor Owen Roe and his wife Michele Forbes on their new interactive dramaWed May 04 2022 - 00:00
