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Stage

Stage Reviews   •   Irish Theatre Awards
Cinderella: A spectacular addition to the Gaiety panto repertoire

Cinderella: A spectacular addition to the Gaiety panto repertoire

Theatre: Production will leave young audience members speculating about stage magic all the way home

Thu Nov 30 2023 - 10:32

Jezahel: ‘This is for the generations who have yet to experience that four-four beat banging through their chests’

Malachy Duggan’s play about a rave is a call to action to rehabilitate Ireland’s night-time culture

Thu Nov 30 2023 - 05:00

The Quare Fellow review: Hugely enjoyable romp packs sombre reflection in with profane laughter

Theatre: At the Abbey, Tom Creed recasts Brendan Behan’s prison comedy entirely with female and nonbinary actors. The effect is teasingly ambiguous

Wed Nov 29 2023 - 02:35
Treasure Island: A gem of a panto crowned with a gorilla digression

Treasure Island: A gem of a panto crowned with a gorilla digression

Theatre: Claire Tighe’s delightful retelling brings the pages of the classic story to life, making for an exceptional experience for the audience

Mon Nov 27 2023 - 12:12

From the Gate to Glór: 35 pantos and other Christmas shows around Ireland for the 2023 festive season

From the Gate to Glór: 35 pantos and other Christmas shows around Ireland for the 2023 festive season

The Gaiety’s 150th pantoversary, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and a new version of Peter Pan by Roddy Doyle are among this winter’s festive highlights

Mon Nov 27 2023 - 05:15

‘I think the Abbey knew I might do something a little bit queer with this Quare Fellow’

‘I think the Abbey knew I might do something a little bit queer with this Quare Fellow’

Tom Creed’s new production of Brendan Behan’s play – the first at the theatre for almost 40 years – features a cast of all female and nonbinary actors

Sat Nov 25 2023 - 05:15

Letters from the Front review: Rebecca Storm stands out in a disappointing production

Letters from the Front review: Rebecca Storm stands out in a disappointing production

Theatre: The musical's narrative focuses more on life off the battlefield before enlistment than on life in the trenches

Thu Nov 23 2023 - 13:27

Fionn Foley on adapting Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment: ‘I did what no person would ever advise you to do’

Fionn Foley on adapting Roddy Doyle’s The Giggler Treatment: ‘I did what no person would ever advise you to do’

The writer took a gamble when he went ahead with neither a commission nor interest from a theatre. Now it’s the Ark’s Christmas production

Thu Nov 23 2023 - 05:15

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: ‘For the Dublin production they said give us everything you have. And we did’

Broadway veterans Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman on the complex process of writing new songs for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s Christmas show

Wed Nov 22 2023 - 14:12

An Audience with Dolly Alderton: Agony aunt has zippy line in posh swearing – but it’s not her who gets biggest laughs

An Audience with Dolly Alderton: Agony aunt has zippy line in posh swearing – but it’s not her who gets biggest laughs

Review: The almost entirely female audience at Vicar Street is treated to a blend of salty wisdom and cocktail-bar irreverence

Tue Nov 21 2023 - 11:41

La Bohème: Celine Byrne and Irish National Opera leave the audience buzzing

La Bohème: Celine Byrne and Irish National Opera leave the audience buzzing

Puccini’s opera is full of antics – and Orpha Phelan gets them all right, from joyous mayhem to emotional darkness

Tue Nov 21 2023 - 10:11

Atelier Samuel Beckett residency to welcome first artists as Irish theatre couple repay generosity

Atelier Samuel Beckett residency to welcome first artists as Irish theatre couple repay generosity

Conor Lovett and Judy Hegarty Lovett hope to nurture creativity in the same way their acclaimed interpretations of the playwright’s work were supported

Mon Nov 20 2023 - 05:00

Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’

Landmark’s Anne Clarke: ‘Every producer, if they’re honest, is a control freak’

From giving modern classics their first Irish productions to nurturing new work from key Irish names, Landmark has had an outsize impact over the past 20 years

Sat Nov 18 2023 - 05:15
How to be a costume manager: Stain, dye, cut and repurpose – and remember blood’s harder to come by since Brexit

How to be a costume manager: Stain, dye, cut and repurpose – and remember blood’s harder to come by since Brexit

Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit

Sat Nov 18 2023 - 00:00
Peter Pan review: Fantastic family fun as Roddy Doyle revitalises the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up

Peter Pan review: Fantastic family fun as Roddy Doyle revitalises the tale of the boy who wouldn’t grow up

Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children

Fri Nov 17 2023 - 14:36
Carmen review: Ballet Ireland’s dancers show their intuition as artists in a formidable production

Carmen review: Ballet Ireland’s dancers show their intuition as artists in a formidable production

Celia Sandoya owns title role in Morgann Runacre-Temple’s staging, which demonstrates Ballet Ireland’s evolution

Fri Nov 17 2023 - 10:28
Gate Theatre unveils 2024 season, including world premiere of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars

Gate Theatre unveils 2024 season, including world premiere of Emma Donoghue’s The Pull of the Stars

New community engagement programme to make the theatre ‘a more civic, open and democratic space’

Thu Nov 16 2023 - 13:20
Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night

Gate Theatre delays Peter Pan opening night

Roddy Doyle’s new version of Peter Pan postponed because of ‘intricate and technical nature’ of show, says Dublin theatre

Mon Nov 13 2023 - 13:21
The Abbey: Shadow of a controversy lingers at Ireland’s national theatre

The Abbey: Shadow of a controversy lingers at Ireland’s national theatre

Two investigations surrounding events at the theatre have cost over €200,000 between them, with an independent review of governance, in particular, incurring escalating costs

Sat Nov 11 2023 - 06:00
The United States vs Ulysses review: A clever courtroom drama entertainingly brought to life

The United States vs Ulysses review: A clever courtroom drama entertainingly brought to life

Colin Murphy’s script explores the 1933 legal battle to allow US publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Fri Nov 10 2023 - 12:25
Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness

Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness

Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time

Wed Nov 8 2023 - 09:27
Luca Truffarelli: ‘We are using immigrants as slaves, to keep the market running. But what is the cost?’

Luca Truffarelli: ‘We are using immigrants as slaves, to keep the market running. But what is the cost?’

In The Weight, his first dance piece, the Dublin-based Italian photographer appeals to his audience to help solve urgent problems

Tue Nov 7 2023 - 05:15
Dwelling review: A compelling portrait of the unease of living in a digital age

Dwelling review: A compelling portrait of the unease of living in a digital age

Theatre: Leon Butler and Peter Power expand their art-making by integrating dance by Rosie Stebbing and Robyn Byrne with an immersive digital installation

Sat Nov 4 2023 - 11:59
'We have everything here': take a tour of the Abbey Theatre prop warehouse

'We have everything here': take a tour of the Abbey Theatre prop warehouse

Abbey Theatre Prop Master Eimer Murphy shows us around their warehouse, which is home to every sort of prop that might be used in an Abbey production.

Sat Nov 4 2023 - 08:09
Coffins, Alan Rickman’s desk and Seán O’Casey’s pram: Inside the curious world of the Abbey Theatre’s props warehouse

Coffins, Alan Rickman’s desk and Seán O’Casey’s pram: Inside the curious world of the Abbey Theatre’s props warehouse

Abbey Theatre’s warehouse in north Dublin is bursting with stories. Eimer Murphy, Ireland’s only props master, takes us on a tour

Sat Nov 4 2023 - 05:25
Swan Lake at Cork Opera House: Flawless in dance and dedication to vivid artistry

Swan Lake at Cork Opera House: Flawless in dance and dedication to vivid artistry

Marking the 30th anniversary of Cork City Ballet Company, this is a work of extravagant display

Fri Nov 3 2023 - 14:02
Alan Foley on the perils of staging princess-free ballet: ‘When we did Giselle I lost €55,000. People just didn’t come and see it’

Alan Foley on the perils of staging princess-free ballet: ‘When we did Giselle I lost €55,000. People just didn’t come and see it’

Cork City Ballet has survived for three decades in a country with little ballet infrastructure. Its 30th-anniversary production is particularly notable for its artistic director

Tue Oct 31 2023 - 05:15
‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan

‘It’s radically different’: Behind the scenes of Roddy Doyle’s Dublin Peter Pan

The author of The Snapper and The Van has set his new version of JM Barrie’s classic story in Ireland

Sat Oct 28 2023 - 05:30
La Ciociara review: The audience roars its approval as the curtain falls on this seat-shiftingly vivid opera

La Ciociara review: The audience roars its approval as the curtain falls on this seat-shiftingly vivid opera

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: If you want to hear what a Puccini of the 21st century might have sounded like, this is as good a starting point as any

Fri Oct 27 2023 - 14:29
L’Aube Rouge review: One of those unfortunate works in which problems stand out more clearly than strengths

L’Aube Rouge review: One of those unfortunate works in which problems stand out more clearly than strengths

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: Strong singing and the orchestra playing a blinder can’t mask the disjointedness

Thu Oct 26 2023 - 15:48
Zoraida di Granata review: This early Donizetti, performed in its original form for the first time, is quite an engaging ride

Zoraida di Granata review: This early Donizetti, performed in its original form for the first time, is quite an engaging ride

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: An impressively unwavering Claudia Boyle sings the title role, with Matteo Mezzaro as Abenamet and Konu Kim as Almuzir

Wed Oct 25 2023 - 14:37
Rhino review: Ionesco reimagined in the virtual worlds of gaming and automaton-like avatars

Rhino review: Ionesco reimagined in the virtual worlds of gaming and automaton-like avatars

Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Patrick J O’Reilly presents cold, sci-fi-inspired dramatic concept

Mon Oct 23 2023 - 09:22
Kévin Coquelard: ‘I loved the madness. You could just throw yourself on the floor and scream’

Kévin Coquelard: ‘I loved the madness. You could just throw yourself on the floor and scream’

The formally trained performer of Gutter found a freer way to be creative after working with Irish choreographers

Sat Oct 21 2023 - 05:15
Irish dance companies are an international success. But dance artists in Ireland struggle to earn a living

Irish dance companies are an international success. But dance artists in Ireland struggle to earn a living

Fifty-nine per cent reported an income of less than €20,000 a year

Sat Oct 21 2023 - 05:14
‘I’m quite a dork... I enjoy making silly fun’: The bilingual comedian on a mission to ‘give everyone in Ireland a focal’

‘I’m quite a dork... I enjoy making silly fun’: The bilingual comedian on a mission to ‘give everyone in Ireland a focal’

Áine Gallagher’s stand-up show A Cup of Focals uses ‘guerilla tactics’ to help Irish audiences lose their hang-ups around Gaeilge

Sat Oct 21 2023 - 05:00
‘It’s pretty much my life savings’: A former punk, a Frank and Walter and a Ford factory musical

‘It’s pretty much my life savings’: A former punk, a Frank and Walter and a Ford factory musical

Kevin Fitzsimons is hoping that Twin Flames, set around the Marina in Cork and the old Majorca ballroom in Crosshaven, will sell out its eight-night run

Tue Oct 17 2023 - 05:00
One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV review: An exhilarating, raucous meditation on grief, and on life

One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV review: An exhilarating, raucous meditation on grief, and on life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s creation, which closes this year’s festival, is a feat of endurance and an act of hope

Mon Oct 16 2023 - 08:46
Burnt Out review: In Gary Mitchell’s new play, the destructive past resurfaces in the blink of an eye

Burnt Out review: In Gary Mitchell’s new play, the destructive past resurfaces in the blink of an eye

Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Dark deeds offset by cartoony humour have been a Mitchell trademark. It’s not as potent a combination here

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 16:57
In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder

In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen McCartney nicely captures the emotional mess of sympathy, irritation and pain in this play by Joanne Ryan

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 13:16
Fall and Float review: A charming, playful, skilful show for young audiences, full of discovery, play and balloons

Fall and Float review: A charming, playful, skilful show for young audiences, full of discovery, play and balloons

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The children at the Ark are audibly delighted and amused, gasping and giggling throughout Mónica Muñoz’s production

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 12:29
This Solution review: Choreography and carnality collide spectacularly

This Solution review: Choreography and carnality collide spectacularly

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: It lacks subtlety, but Shaun Dunne’s multimedia exploration of online pornography and real-life consequences is exhilarating

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 10:19
Powerful Trouble review: Junk Ensemble’s exploration is sharp in its message, wonderfully rambling in its telling

Powerful Trouble review: Junk Ensemble’s exploration is sharp in its message, wonderfully rambling in its telling

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The strength of this work lies in the complete experience rather than the individual elements

Fri Oct 13 2023 - 10:15
No Woman Is an Island review: A potted history of social attitudes to solitude that is not to be missed

No Woman Is an Island review: A potted history of social attitudes to solitude that is not to be missed

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Róisín Stack continues to expand the grammar and techniques of her particular brand of performance art

Thu Oct 12 2023 - 10:31
Lost Lear director Dan Colley: ‘Go with a person’s reality. Step into their world’

Lost Lear director Dan Colley: ‘Go with a person’s reality. Step into their world’

Lost Lear uses Shakespeare’s tragedy as the scaffold for a new play that confronts the way we deal with dementia

Thu Oct 12 2023 - 05:15
Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White: Why I had to make One Song this year’s closing show

Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White: Why I had to make One Song this year’s closing show

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s relentless, increasingly frenetic mash-up of sport and rock music is an intense, thrilling experience

Tue Oct 10 2023 - 05:00
Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey

Garry Hynes wins best director at UK Theatre Awards for DruidO’Casey

Druid’s production, which is a play cycle of Seán O’Casey’s three best known plays, premiered in July

Mon Oct 9 2023 - 15:55
History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past

History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from

Mon Oct 9 2023 - 09:13
Ironbound review: wit and humour in bleak portrayal of difficult life

Ironbound review: wit and humour in bleak portrayal of difficult life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Martyna Majok’s Polish characters are pitch-perfect

Sat Oct 7 2023 - 15:10
An Irish man signs up to make gay porn, then wants to change his mind. This Solution is about his experience

An Irish man signs up to make gay porn, then wants to change his mind. This Solution is about his experience

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Shaun Dunne hopes his play will resonate with people who have been in situations ‘that they haven’t been able to escape from’

Sat Oct 7 2023 - 05:30
Distillation review: This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs, writes Eanna Ní Lamhna

Distillation review: This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs, writes Eanna Ní Lamhna

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The smells of turf, smoke and mosses help convey the effect of our exploitation of our bogs over centuries

Fri Oct 6 2023 - 18:32
The Boy Who Talked to Dogs review: A challenging Irish childhood becomes a lively, eclectic stage show

The Boy Who Talked to Dogs review: A challenging Irish childhood becomes a lively, eclectic stage show

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Bryan Burroughs is a lithe, commanding presence in this show

Fri Oct 6 2023 - 09:40
Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individuals

Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individuals

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developers

Thu Oct 5 2023 - 11:19

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