The Gate’s assured Ideal Husband remains fittingly haunted by the circumstances of its creation
Matthew Malone and Caitríona Ennis star in Marc Atkinson Borrull’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s most political work
‘Please don’t mention anything that happens here,’ Derren Brown says. But I have to tell you about it
At the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, we start to doubt the authenticity of the illusion and wonder how much of what we are seeing has been baked in advance
The BBC’s First Homosexual review: A poignant, revelatory look at an era when gay liberation remained a mirage
In Stephen M Hornby’s play, a young gay man tries to find his way in a hostile 1950s world as the broadcaster investigates ‘the homosexual condition’
The Delirium Archive review: A dystopia that’s oddly devoid of terror
Theatre: Shane Mac an Bhaird’s play leans towards comedy. But the zany script and bleak setting call for more farcical energy
Do You Come from Gomorrah? review: Five stars for Frank McGuinness’s startlingly revelatory play
Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry
Cholera, ‘night soil’ and the age of stink: Colin Murphy’s Miasma is a tightly structured historical drama
Colin Murphy’s densely researched play, directed by Samantha Cade, centres on rival approaches to tackling disease in 19th-century London
The Plough and the Stars review: Abbey’s centenary staging features fine performances but doesn’t always gel
Tom Creed directs a cast led by Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Kate Gilmore, Michael Glenn Murphy, Thommas Kane Byrne and Mary Murray
In The Crucible at the Gaiety, Andrew McCarthy gives a fine performance, but this Miller should be more ambitious
Andrew Flynn’s conventional production of the Arthur Miller play ignores contemporary questions raised by MeToo and cancel culture
Eureka Day at the Gate: The privileged few tear each other part in a satire of liberal confusion
Jonathan Spector’s play, making its Irish debut, features the equivalent of Chekhov’s gun for the era of diversity and inclusion
Palestine: Peace de Resistance review – A tricky attempt to extract laughs from bleak material
Theatre: Sami Abu Wardeh seems caught up in an effort to tell a story of ongoing slaughter in Palestine too raw to confront directly
