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Mr Mercedes review: Brendan Gleeson brings his grizzly skills to bear

Mr Mercedes review: Brendan Gleeson brings his grizzly skills to bear

Beneath the generic cat and mouse game is a picture of American masculinity and its fateful engine trouble

Tue Sept 19 2017 - 23:15
‘Electric Dreams’ tells us to trust the robots, not the humans

‘Electric Dreams’ tells us to trust the robots, not the humans

TV review: Another Philip K Dick adaptation, in this boom time for paranoia

Mon Sept 18 2017 - 17:53
Dublin Fringe Festival: shows to catch while you can

Dublin Fringe Festival: shows to catch while you can

The latest reviews including Birdy, Everything Now, Kicking All The Boxes, Raven Eyed and MDLSX

Sun Sept 17 2017 - 16:00
Welcome to Pat Kenny's nation, a chilling scenario

Welcome to Pat Kenny's nation, a chilling scenario

The Pat Kenny Show imagines the nation not as it could be, but as it is, an easily goaded, roiling mess

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 11:13
Within Rooms review: Lost in translation

Within Rooms review: Lost in translation

The walls in this small, over-extended production are built on weak foundations

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 11:00
Dublin Fringe Festival: our guide to the best of the weekend

Dublin Fringe Festival: our guide to the best of the weekend

Here is our selection of the best shows opening this weekend, and the best productions still running that we've seen so far

Thu Sept 14 2017 - 05:00
Frock Finders review: Boutiques propose and customers dispose

Frock Finders review: Boutiques propose and customers dispose

It’s hard to say how seriously RTÉ’s new show is taking its fashionable subject

Wed Sept 13 2017 - 10:41
Rellik: The TV show that gives you everything back except your time

Rellik: The TV show that gives you everything back except your time

The gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out now

Tue Sept 12 2017 - 12:02
How to make a newspaper in an hour

How to make a newspaper in an hour

Fringe review: Enter the offices of The Dublin Correspondænt and bring your controversial opinions

Sun Sept 10 2017 - 02:00
Bojack Horseman: not puns or pastiche, but great comedy pedigree

Bojack Horseman: not puns or pastiche, but great comedy pedigree

The Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long run

Fri Sept 08 2017 - 16:40
Tin Star: Tim Roth is stuck in the Rockies, with plenty of time to waste

Tin Star: Tim Roth is stuck in the Rockies, with plenty of time to waste

Tin Star plays merry havoc with chronology and character, but to no real consequence

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 22:00
Peep Show boys back with barbs that rip a hole in the screen

Peep Show boys back with barbs that rip a hole in the screen

Back review: The Peep Show duo are now a fully mature odd couple, prone to looking back, in Simon Blackwell's new comedy

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 10:58
Dublin Fringe: 15 shows you need to see at this year’s festival

Dublin Fringe: 15 shows you need to see at this year’s festival

This year’s fringe is packed with potential: here’s the ones we think will make the cut

Thu Sept 07 2017 - 05:00
Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of character

Katie Roche: Ambitions of greatness for a woman in search of character

In 1930s rural Ireland, Katie Roche is a young woman with notions. In 2017, this revival of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic has clearer aims

Wed Sept 06 2017 - 18:53
‘It surprised me how much I fell in love with the Irish way’

‘It surprised me how much I fell in love with the Irish way’

Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival

Tue Sept 05 2017 - 05:00
A Tribe Called Quest kick it at Electric Picnic

A Tribe Called Quest kick it at Electric Picnic

Hip-hop icons sound as fresh as ever on the Main Stage, while Bill Bailey tackles the DUP

Sun Sept 03 2017 - 17:07
It’s a quiet eruption for Friday’s EP headliners, The xx

It’s a quiet eruption for Friday’s EP headliners, The xx

London trio seem slightly awed by Stradbally’s response

Sat Sept 02 2017 - 05:00
EP2017: Seriously silly select appeal set to change

EP2017: Seriously silly select appeal set to change

There’s room for growing up, but Super Silly provide a heady mix

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 22:00
Electric Picnic day one best bits: 'You look so festival'

Electric Picnic day one best bits: 'You look so festival'

Our writers on the best bits of day one at Stradbally

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 21:00
EP 2017: There’s no place like dome

EP 2017: There’s no place like dome

A world first for EP: half a giant golf ball of sound

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 18:29
Narcos review: What happens when the Cali cartel goes straight?

Narcos review: What happens when the Cali cartel goes straight?

The drugs drama returns with true stories that beggar belief

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 12:00
EP2017: Sun shines on Hudson Taylor’s winsome ways

EP2017: Sun shines on Hudson Taylor’s winsome ways

A singalong. A handclap. Even a new song ‘Feel it Again’ sounds vigorously familiar

Fri Sept 01 2017 - 05:00
Dancing with my self: Step this way for this week’s theatre highlights

Dancing with my self: Step this way for this week’s theatre highlights

On the boards: Abbey stages 1936 play by the oft-neglected Teresa Deevy, and Stefanie Preissner directs Margaret McAuliffe’s one-woman show about an Irish dancer

Thu Aug 31 2017 - 11:00
My goodness, aspiring to greatness

My goodness, aspiring to greatness

For the Abbey’s new production of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic, ‘Katie Roche’, the theatre turned to the trailblazing director Caroline Byrne

Thu Aug 31 2017 - 05:00
Are psychopaths born or made, and can they be cured?

Are psychopaths born or made, and can they be cured?

Uta Frith tries to come up with some answers based on some deeply alarming interviews

Wed Aug 30 2017 - 13:00
Game of Thrones: Cersei, not the zombie-dragon, makes us gasp

Game of Thrones: Cersei, not the zombie-dragon, makes us gasp

Season finale: It’s the politics, cynicism and raw emotion that make this gripping TV

Mon Aug 28 2017 - 22:25
R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet you

R.U.R. review: May the robots rise up to meet you

To hell with humans; we’re on the terminators’ side, in NYT’s reboot of Karel Capek’s 1921 play

Sun Aug 27 2017 - 16:53
How do you solve the famous 'trolley problem'?

How do you solve the famous 'trolley problem'?

A new theatre show allows the audience to vote throughout. Would you make the right decisions?

Sat Aug 26 2017 - 05:00
The Mist review: Spot the anxiety amid the ham-fisted tosh

The Mist review: Spot the anxiety amid the ham-fisted tosh

Bundling the gravity of sexual assault into the hokum of killer fog is a mistake

Fri Aug 25 2017 - 13:56
Prepare for a swell party at Jay Gatsby’s Mansion at the Gate Theatre

Prepare for a swell party at Jay Gatsby’s Mansion at the Gate Theatre

This week in the theatre

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 11:00
The State review: What has driven 1,000 UK people to fight with Isis?

The State review: What has driven 1,000 UK people to fight with Isis?

Peter Kosminsky’s four-part drama shows how. But what about the why?

Thu Aug 24 2017 - 05:00
Welcome to the Dublin pub screening each episode of Game of Thrones

Welcome to the Dublin pub screening each episode of Game of Thrones

Hell is other spoilers among a community of GoT watchers in Dublin

Wed Aug 23 2017 - 14:00
Valkyrien review: A Scandi drama where men live in fear of women

Valkyrien review: A Scandi drama where men live in fear of women

The latest TV import is a dark moral satire about what desperate people will do – but don’t let that stop you from digging in

Tue Aug 22 2017 - 13:00
Game of Thrones review: It’ll be all wight on the night

Game of Thrones review: It’ll be all wight on the night

The penultimate episode is so gripping you half expect to see yourself listed in the credits

Mon Aug 21 2017 - 22:00
Marvel’s The Defenders: the new Netflix series you might want to miss

Marvel’s The Defenders: the new Netflix series you might want to miss

TV review: Four telly superheroes join forces against a common enemy – our patience

Fri Aug 18 2017 - 12:00
What happens when you remove gender from the classroom?

What happens when you remove gender from the classroom?

TV review – No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? has some answers

Thu Aug 17 2017 - 17:57
This week at the theatre

This week at the theatre

This week at the theatre, you find robotic revolutions, a threatened Eden and other unlikely relationships.

Thu Aug 17 2017 - 11:00
Quacks review: 'The bloodier the coat, the better the surgeon'

Quacks review: 'The bloodier the coat, the better the surgeon'

The BBC’s new comedy looks like a medical marvel in the making

Wed Aug 16 2017 - 12:53
Game of Thrones: Special-effects dragon out-acts Jon Snow

Game of Thrones: Special-effects dragon out-acts Jon Snow

The beast sniffs out Jon’s Targaryen parentage in an emotional CGI encounter

Mon Aug 14 2017 - 21:55
‘When the revolution started, I was not political. Then people started to die’

‘When the revolution started, I was not political. Then people started to die’

Counting Sheep began life at the heart of the revolution on Ukraine’s Maidan. Is it more than radical tourism?

Sat Aug 12 2017 - 05:00
Kilkenny’s art of the possible

Kilkenny’s art of the possible

As the world threatens to spin apart, this year’s arts festival concentrates on what keeps it together – just about

Thu Aug 10 2017 - 11:00
The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia

The Nuncio and the Writer: A heart in Kilkenny, a mind on Croatia

Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 10:00
Trust Me review: Jodie Whittaker gets her first doctor’s internship

Trust Me review: Jodie Whittaker gets her first doctor’s internship

How long will it be before Jodie Whittaker’s A&E doctor is found out? Longer than it takes for the many implausibilities of Trust Me to unravel, hopefully

Wed Aug 09 2017 - 10:00
Game of Thrones: Dragon attack is an extraordinary scene

Game of Thrones: Dragon attack is an extraordinary scene

The long-hoped-for sequence of a screeching creature and burning soldiers feels weird

Mon Aug 07 2017 - 21:55
Diana: Charles ‘was all over me like a bad rash’

Diana: Charles ‘was all over me like a bad rash’

‘Diana In Her Own Words’ documentary shows a woman fascinated by media

Mon Aug 07 2017 - 11:29
Grease: Popularity is great for high school, professionalism is better for theatre

Grease: Popularity is great for high school, professionalism is better for theatre

Grease has got groove, it’s got feeling. But this unctuous performance is hardly slick

Fri Aug 04 2017 - 15:30
Insecure review: An urban reality and a daydream escape

Insecure review: An urban reality and a daydream escape

Issa Rae’s show grows more confident even as its heroine does not

Thu Aug 03 2017 - 23:00
Man in an Orange Shirt: A blameless love and a painful history

Man in an Orange Shirt: A blameless love and a painful history

Patrick Gale’s debut screen drama is based on the compromise of his own parents

Tue Aug 01 2017 - 12:00
Game of Thrones ups the sadism, the humour and the dialogue

Game of Thrones ups the sadism, the humour and the dialogue

Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 3 Review: Free of the unwieldy fantasy books that inspired it, the show is thriving

Mon Jul 31 2017 - 21:55
The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera

The Second Violinist review: An extraordinary modern opera

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Mon Jul 31 2017 - 15:56
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