TV presenter and actor
Alan Hughes and Karl Broderick’s interactive pantomime, directed by Simon Delaney, features the promising Caoileann Woodcock as Belle
Aladdin among productions cancelled due to rising Covid-19 cases
December 6th to 12th, 2021: The best of the week’s culture events, right around Ireland
Alan Hughes says tickets bought by schools, companies cancelled ‘costing us thousands’
Pantomimes and family shows have gone online – or even switched to a drive-in format
Sarah McInerney and Cormac Ó hEadhra gel as US poll unfolds, Joe Duffy gets populist about panto
Impact of Covid-19 crisis evident in almost every case before Dublin District Courts
The Tivoli’s Snow White, and Gaeity’s Snow Queen are fabulously reworked classics
Are We There Yet? ‘Fun Unplugged’ is a book full of diverting puzzles to get kids off screens
Alan Hughes’s long-running pantomime uses raucous humour to winning effect
Psycho carrots, a reverse-ageing Elton John and Melania Trump as a Stepford wife
Footage released to celebrate the 90th anniversary of ESB
Donald Clarke: There’s a reason advertising executives have second homes in Tuscany
Fathers beware: in the Tivoli panto there is nowhere to hide from Buffy Twanky
‘Most of the ads are so terrible, it’s like Don Draper was never born’
Pair tie knot in wake of gay marriage vote after being in civil partnership for nearly a decade
Karl Broderick is Ireland’s longest-serving panto writer, but can he teach this novice how to write a funny script?
Things to do and shows to see with children over the Christmas holidays
The advertising industry produces some cutting-edge art. Two of the creatives who’ll be at the Offset conference explain how their ideas take shape
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices
