A Love Like That review: Wistful drama teeming with myth and legend
Dublin Theatre Festival: Billy Roche’s new play turns modest characters into legends in their own lifetimes
Dublin Theatre Festival: Billy Roche’s new play turns modest characters into legends in their own lifetimes
Martin McDonagh’s scabrous comedy at the Gaiety; stirring Glasgow Girls musical at the Abbey is timely for more than one reason
This new production of Martin McDonagh’s comedy is wise not to play it straight
The challenge is to honour his writing. When the cast find the rhythm, the work sings
Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead
Decadent Theatre’s production draws out darkness of McDonagh’s Gothic work
Pat Shortt stars in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy; Roddy Doyle’s barfly banter gets a human face with Liam Carney and Phillip Judge
The Abbey brings the insurgent story of Jimmy Gralton back to the stage for another knees-up
Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
First Galway 2020’s creative director quit; now funding questions are being asked
McGuinness play ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ is inspired by Brian Keenan’s kidnapping in Beirut
This week in the theatre
Careless direction means Decadent’s production never becomes the sum of its parts
DBC Pierre’s novel excoriates contemporary America, and this production doesn’t quite keep the anger on the boil
Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre Company’s director, has an unusual ability to combine artistic passion with the deal-clinching pitches of a travelling salesman
Decadent Theatre’s canny revival of Stuart Carolan’s play carries echoes of his TV show Love/Hate
Irish Paralympic sprinter will be able to go for double gold in Rio
A bleak view of manhood and marriage in an Irish town in which everyone is either locked or lost
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