Brian Friel’s plays come alive again after a strange decadeHaving been sanitised in the 2010s, recent productions have found hidden layersMon Mar 21 2022 - 05:00
X’ntigone review: Contemporary spin on Greek tragedy loses its wayMurphy’s script is alive to recent politics but shift into our own era is not always smoothThu Mar 17 2022 - 14:00
Sh*t: This hard-hitting play is profane but not profoundReview: The play’s vulgarity becomes less logical during some unsettling scenesFri Mar 04 2022 - 11:35
Endgame review: Absurd family comedy set at the end of the worldNot since Ab Fab has watching an insecure parent reliant on their child been as comicalThu Feb 17 2022 - 11:00
Walking with Ghosts: Gabriel Byrne looks at the strange boy in the mirrorActor’s adaptation of his memoir explores painful memories with serious eloquenceWed Feb 02 2022 - 09:19
Faith Healer: Aidan Gillen’s miraculous performance underpins a knockout revivalReview: Joe Dowling, who first directed Brian Friel’s play 41 years ago, restages a classicThu Dec 09 2021 - 10:26
The Treaty review: Intrigue and subterfuge in this gender-blind story of freedomJane Brennan gives a mesmerising emulation of de Valera’s paced, crystal voiceThu Nov 25 2021 - 16:00
All the Angels: the story of Handel’s Messiah told in clunky footnotesReview: The cast are superb, but Nick Drake’s script fails to harmonise the complex emotionsThu Nov 25 2021 - 06:15
Conversations After Sex: ★★★★★ for Mark O’Halloran’s extraordinary new playDublin Theatre Festival: Kate Stanley Brennan is sublime in Thisispopbaby’s productionMon Oct 11 2021 - 11:50
The Book of Names: Louise Lowe sharpens Anu’s enthralling approach to theatreDublin Theatre Festival: The terror of the War of Independence is unavoidable in this immersive experienceTue Oct 05 2021 - 11:10
‘The country has yet to come to terms with its Aids crisis’Playwright Phillip McMahon’s new play follows a trio of close-knit LGBTQ+ friendsSat Sept 18 2021 - 05:00
Rescue Annie: A grim history of lonelinessDublin Fringe Festival 2021: Lauren Shannon Jones and Eoghan Carrick’s new play is a sad exploration of unknown, perished womenTue Sept 14 2021 - 12:13
Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the ageDublin Fringe Festival 2021: Brokentalkers and Truscott’s fruitful collaboration feels like a direct response to #MeTooMon Sept 13 2021 - 10:54
Can Dublin Fringe Festival lead the reopening of the city?Ruth McGowan, the festival’s director, hopes the city’s reopening is a portal to somewhere newThu Sept 02 2021 - 05:00
Domhnall Gleeson: ‘I live in Dublin because it’s home’The actor on his return to theatre and why he chose his hometown over a life in Los AngelesSun Aug 29 2021 - 05:00
Mespil in the Dark: Suspenseful mystery in a charming Dublin bohemiaCan an apartment building tell the story of a city’s decline into an artistic wasteland?Thu Jun 24 2021 - 12:55
One Good Turn: a reassuring comedy about long-term illnessReview: Una McKevitt’s wry play explores the rarer, brighter shades of life caring for an ill family memberThu Jun 24 2021 - 06:00
Playwright Marina Carr takes a gamble and winsCarr transfers Woolfe’s internal conflict to the stage with a little help from Derbhle CrottySat Jun 12 2021 - 05:00
What happens when a theatre actor loses a year?The pandemic has given performers a chance to recalibrate ambitions and expectationsThu May 06 2021 - 05:00
Boland: Journey of a Poet – One-note production of a near-perfect biographical playReview: Druid’s chronicle of Eavan Boland’s life and work overlooks myriad possibilitiesMon Apr 26 2021 - 13:00
Home: Part One – Abbey stream amplifies the voices of silenced mother and baby home survivorsTheatre review: Powerful, earth-shifting testimonies are solemnly read as scriptsThu Mar 18 2021 - 12:20
Once Upon a Bridge: Unchecked aggression and its regretful aftermathTheatre review: In Sonya Kelly’s new play, commonplace hostilities can alter lives foreverMon Feb 15 2021 - 12:45
Live theatre was getting interesting. Then Covid arrivedSeveral new plays were due on the country’s big stages, a rare sightWed Jan 13 2021 - 05:00
Too many cracks in this eggsistential detective storyAn absurd comedy offers a worthwhile study in isolation, but the plotting is haphazardFri Sept 15 2017 - 11:00
