Alison Spittle’s show is a few ‘culchies’ short of a club‘Culchie Club’ Review: If there’s such a place as the real Ireland, this show does not find itMon Apr 09 2018 - 22:30
Pan Pan take on Oscar Wilde: The best theatre shows this weekFishamble bring Maz and Bricks, unlikely allies with different views on life, back into the street protests of contemporary DublinMon Apr 09 2018 - 14:00
‘Lyrics’ is a ‘Him and Her’ search for words, with only one winnerTwo lovelorn souls come to an open-mic night looking for an audience, but only one is allowed to find itMon Apr 09 2018 - 13:07
National Treasures: a hoarder’s dream, like an anti-capitalist Antiques RoadshowReview: Everything here tells a story. Just because something has no value, it insists, does not make it worthlessSun Apr 08 2018 - 19:30
Patrick Kielty: ‘I liked Arlene Foster. That confused me’Review: When Patrick Kielty was 16, his father was murdered. He could have sought revenge. Instead, he chose comedyWed Apr 04 2018 - 22:00
Kiss Me First: alternative realities for troubled teenagersReview: To feel or not to feel, that is the question in this Channel 4 and Netflix co-productionTue Apr 03 2018 - 21:16
‘Dave Allen at Peace’: An overly simplistic portrayal of one of Ireland’s most complex jokersReview: The intentions of this biopic are honourable, but Allen, you feel, would have told it so much better.Mon Apr 02 2018 - 22:00
Tryst, Limerick Fringe and Test Copy: this week’s theatre highlightsAn engaged couple get more than they bargained for in Tryst; a Tipperary teenager wrestles with fickle popularity in Test CopySat Mar 31 2018 - 05:00
Idris Elba’s sitcom is a breezy take on black British experience‘In the Long Run’ review: Show based on creator’s childhood is largely 1980s nostalgiaThu Mar 29 2018 - 23:00
Lustful, middle-aged Greg meets attractive, available Brenna. That’ll end well‘Come Home’ review: Engrossing BBC-RTÉ thriller with Christopher Eccleston and a fine castWed Mar 28 2018 - 05:00
Data-mining and dream-making: Wedding planners’ trade secretsTV Review: ‘My Big Day: Home or Away?’ pits two wedding-industry pros against one otherMon Mar 26 2018 - 23:16
‘My Left Nut’, ‘Penguins’ and ‘Sally Denver Matthews’: the best theatre this weekGrowing pains, a New York love story, and frazzled first-time parenthoodSat Mar 24 2018 - 05:00
‘Just another Dublin dope trying to find ways to say, I love you, woman’Late at the Gate review: gifted writer and performer Emmet Kirwan responds to John Osborne’s ‘Look Back in Anger’Tue Mar 20 2018 - 06:00
‘Art’ at the Gaiety, ‘Late at the Gate’: the best theatre this weekYasmina Reza’s celebrity warhorse returns, while Emmet Kirwan gives a dissenting, rhyming response to ‘Look Back in Anger’Sat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored meMax Porter's acclaimed novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers is being adapted for the stage by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian MurphySat Mar 17 2018 - 05:00
Why would anyone without faith walk the Camino?... If you’re a celeb looking for a gig, it’s an opportunity to be on the tellyFri Mar 16 2018 - 22:00
The Young Offenders: As hilarious as it is touching. A perfect finaleAfter this masterpiece, the contagious double act are sure to be repeat offendersThu Mar 15 2018 - 22:15
‘Grow, Cook, Eat’: Putting the ‘cult’ back into cultivationTV Review: A leaden, worthy food show aimed – squarely – at home ownersWed Mar 14 2018 - 21:07
Fine, feathered friends and neighbours: The week’s best theatreCillian Murphy stars in Grief is the Thing with Feathers. Plus: The Unmanageable Sisters at the Abbey and THISISPOPBABY’s mini-St Patrick’s festivalSat Mar 10 2018 - 05:00
Hedda Gabler review: a clear and vigorous interpretationStar director Ivo van Hove’s production provides the power, beauty and excitement that Hedda herself can never findFri Mar 09 2018 - 09:32
Eavan Boland: Intimate portrait of the poet’s life and workTV Review: Excellent documentary uncovers the impetus behind Boland’s poemsThu Mar 08 2018 - 23:30
Philip Boucher-Hayes glibly rejects vegan diet and ideologyTV Review: ‘What Are You Eating?’ is ultimately antagonistic towards veganismThu Mar 08 2018 - 22:07
The Unmanageable Sisters review: A production that doesn’t quite stickIt’s hard to see what ground Deirdre Kinahan’s new Irish version of Michel Tremblay’s play can breakThu Mar 08 2018 - 15:17
Save Me: No one is wholly good or entirely badThis impressive Sky Atlantic drama mixes detective story with the texture of lifeWed Mar 07 2018 - 23:39
Theatre this week: Voyeurism at Bewley’s and a Peacock debutPeep, Porcelain and Private Peaceful alliterate the week in theatreSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the townWhat do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answerSat Mar 03 2018 - 05:00
Simon Schama in ‘Civilisations’: History has found its hype manSometimes, I suspect, he throws in academic jokes to check if his class is paying attentionFri Mar 02 2018 - 09:35
The Assassination of Gianni Versace: I'll not allow that nobody to kill my brother twiceThis expertly made, gorgeous-to -look-at new series makes his murderer into a somebodyWed Feb 28 2018 - 23:00
Neven Maguire looks like butter wouldn't melt in his pulmonary arteryNeven's Irish Food Trail: Nothing seems to make his mouth water like a successful brandWed Feb 28 2018 - 21:00
Home of the Year: Nice house, but you wouldn’t live in itRTÉ judges say they’re seeking personality but seem more impressed by sterilityTue Feb 27 2018 - 21:08
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards nightIrish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winnerSun Feb 25 2018 - 22:49
Return of Druid’s Godot is a theatre highlight worth waiting forDruid’s unmissable Waiting for Godot embarks on national and international tour, while Antarctic adventurer Ernest Shackleton is back in Blue Raincoat’s intrepid productionSat Feb 24 2018 - 05:00
British soldiers on North: The locals ‘hated us with a vengeance’TV Review: Squaddies on the Frontline hears of soldiers’ boredom, public hatred and low moraleThu Feb 22 2018 - 15:58
Porcelain review: The perils of being someone elseA young Irish woman is not feeling herself in Margaret Perry’s debut play for the Abbey, which shadows the tragedy of a woman burned to death in 1895 for the same reasonWed Feb 21 2018 - 15:58
Dolores O’Riordan: an artist searching for her stable selfDave Fanning’s interviews reveal a person who understood fame, depression and griefMon Feb 19 2018 - 23:25
Prickly Daniel O’Donnell battles visionary Dermot BannonThe redesign of the O’Donnells’ house turns into a tussle between the titans of factual TVMon Feb 19 2018 - 11:13
We Don’t Know What’s Buried Here – The best theatre shows this weekStacey Gregg’s award-winning play about a teenager’s fraught search for identity and Grace Dyas’s new play about digging for truth in the shadow of a Magdalene LaundrySat Feb 17 2018 - 05:00
Everything Sucks! New Netflix drama sanitises teenage angstReview: A high-school comedy set in 1996 gets the music right but changes the era’s tuneThu Feb 15 2018 - 22:43
Bliss, a comedy about bigamy that wants it both waysReview: Stephen Mangan’s character used to be indecisive but now he’s not so sureThu Feb 15 2018 - 17:55
Passing a Garda breathalyser test after two pintsTV Review: The Road Safety Authority is making serious points using silly methodsMon Feb 12 2018 - 21:00
Love and desire for Valentine’s week: The best theatre this weekA tragedy born of greedy matchmaking, a hesitant love affair barely whispered from the rooftop, and the situation of two work colleagues who wake up together in bomb shelterSat Feb 10 2018 - 05:00
The Young Offenders: Cork’s adorable teenage criminalsReview: The hit Irish film is now a TV series, and its comedy has grown in confidenceThu Feb 08 2018 - 22:10
Look Back In Anger review: Deconstructing a nasty piece of workNew production of Osborne’s drama pulls down curtain on angry young manThu Feb 08 2018 - 17:06
The Approach review: An intricate puzzle of a playMark O’Rowe’s new drama finds that people are the hardest things to solveWed Feb 07 2018 - 15:43
TV3’s ‘Tonight Show’ risks running out of conversationWith a fourth night added, even Matt Cooper and Ivan Yates might not have enough to sayWed Feb 07 2018 - 12:11
We Won the Lotto: ‘A million isn’t a lot if you do the wrong things’Review: A documentary about Lotto winners suggests winning the big prize can cost youTue Feb 06 2018 - 11:28
Theatre of the week: Swan Lake reimagined and the Gregory deal rememberedBirds of a feather flock to the theatre this weekSat Feb 03 2018 - 05:00
Pat Kenny Show: Doom fills the vacuum of uncertaintyReview: The first episode of a new series is limited by cliche and predictable politicsThu Feb 01 2018 - 10:45
Gomorrah: Where characters die before they become charactersReview: The drama’s mafiosi rarely get a flash of personality – too busy killing or being killedThu Feb 01 2018 - 10:04
The cruel tragedy in Sive: ‘Women must pay for all happiness’As materialism makes a comeback, Druid take another look at Sive and find there’s much left to discoverThu Feb 01 2018 - 08:00
