How The Beatles ended up performing live for ever‘Love’ is the closest most of us will get to seeing the Liverpudlians in concertFri May 26 2017 - 12:00
Netflix’s The Keepers will banish whatever institutional faith you may have leftThe students of a murdered Baltimore nun investigate her killing decades later, and uncover a damning trail of abuse and cover-upThu May 25 2017 - 13:26
Paula review: Set in Dublin, filmed in Belfast, everything seems slightly uncannyDenise Gough is superb in a drama that is high on horror and low on lightbulbsThu May 25 2017 - 11:23
Twin Peaks: If you can follow it, you haven’t been watchingReview: 25 years on, David Lynch still seems to be making stuff up as he goes alongMon May 22 2017 - 16:47
In its last act, Three Girls resembles but vastly exceeds the shape of a legal dramaThe final episode of the astonishing drama moves into the courtroom and the aftermath of the horrific events in RochdaleFri May 19 2017 - 09:42
I Love Dick review: ‘I haven’t read a book in 10 years. I’m post-idea’In Jill Soloway's new show, a sexually-spent couple devise an erotic game over their desire for Dick, an unreconstructed cowboy-artist-academic, who claims to be "post-idea". Are they all post-clue?Fri May 19 2017 - 09:07
Three Girls: a story of horrific abuse and extraordinary braveryThe BBC’s three-part dramatisation of the Rochdale child sex abuse scandal is unflinching in its truth-tellingWed May 17 2017 - 14:18
Redwater: A British, backward, Ballykissangel idea of IrelandKat and Alfie’s quest is slowed by native distrust, uneasy transitions and a minefield of Irish clichésMon May 15 2017 - 07:26
Jamestown: absurd, generic and risible show in ‘a hive of men starved of women’Bill Gallagher’s immensely unsubtle writing results in absurd, generic and risible TVFri May 05 2017 - 22:00
Dara and Ed’s Road to Mandalay: comedians getting along – where’s the fun in that?They make for sensitive presenters and endearingly awed tourists, but don’t expect comedic fireworks when Dara and Ed go on holiday togetherThu May 04 2017 - 23:00
Maz and Bricks review: isolated by shame, and ready to overshareIf even the Dublin Luas lines will eventually connect, then why can’t two people come together despite their political differences, in Eva O’Connor’s new play for Fishamble?Wed May 03 2017 - 14:25
The Chastitute review: A promiscuous play that can’t settle downIt’s hard to know what to make of the sexual politics of John B Keane’s playTue May 02 2017 - 17:02
American Gods review: Pleasing the disciples with a devout offeringFolding durable ancient myths into disposable Americana, American Gods must first appease the demands of Neil Gaiman’s fanbaseTue May 02 2017 - 15:18
Body Shopping review: Dragged down by saggy editorialisingThis moralising documentary could have some further work done, and predictably finds people in urgent need of a confidence transfusionThu Apr 27 2017 - 22:30
Hot Girls Wanted: every kind of sexual behaviour and no type of intimacyA new documentary series on technology and sex depicts a fascinating, horrible achievement: we have finally managed to take the people out of sexTue Apr 25 2017 - 14:00
Big Little Lies review: When life as a pressurised performance blows upIt was tempting to dismiss this show as something befitting the playground. (Or, at least, I did.) But it repaid closer attention as it grew darker and more compassionateTue Apr 25 2017 - 08:43
Did you hear the one about the actor trying to be funny?Druid actor Rory Nolan takes his comedy seriously - which may explain his impressive ability when it comes to theatre, and to trolling his fellow cast membersTue Apr 25 2017 - 05:00
Gate Theatre needs to take risks – and so does its audienceCulture Shock: A report finds the Gate’s audience has it in a chokehold – but rather than pander to its audience’s supposed tastes, it needs to cultivate an appetite for adventureSat Apr 22 2017 - 05:00
Versailles review: Being judged by history while being handled by glossy TV producersThe most expensive ever French TV show hits our screens for a second season. So what is a king to do?Fri Apr 21 2017 - 22:30
Whodunnit? Forger Hilary Clinton, cat burglar Zayn Malik or sleazy Arsene WengerBjörk, the sparkling pixie dream child, has been murdered, in the return of the ludic, improvised celebrity-addled Murder in SuccessvilleFri Apr 21 2017 - 12:38
Guerrilla review: A 1970s gold rush of radicalismWhat’s good enough for Derry is good enough for Brixton, in Sky’s tough new show on an overlooked British historyThu Apr 20 2017 - 16:41
Veep review: To hell with the polls. Get back on the campaign trail, MeyerA year ago, the scabrous comedy Veep seemed like a sour joke about chaotic US politics. Now it returns like an escapist parallel universeWed Apr 19 2017 - 14:37
Meet Julia, Sesame Street’s first autistic characterAs ever, Sesame Street shows society how to be that bit more accepting, with a character modelled on her performer’s autistic sonThu Apr 13 2017 - 12:45
Better Call Saul review: an obsessive spin-off whose wheels are creakingBob Odenkirk’s engaging huckster is a man who can neither escape his past nor his futureWed Apr 12 2017 - 18:22
At Your Service review: survival of the fittest when “food will eat you up and spit you out”Francis and John Brennan have to upscale a small café to a 100-seat restaurant, which is not easy when the owners turn the car-park into an ovenMon Apr 10 2017 - 15:58
The Trip to Spain review: Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon get stuck into food and deathOn Sky Atlantic, the comedy duo play versions of each other (and everyone else) while on a road trip obsessed with the final destinationFri Apr 07 2017 - 18:42
Ireland’s Property Crisis: Tales from the battlefrontTV Review: Part 1 of the RTE documentary offers numerous personal stories but no answersTue Apr 04 2017 - 15:24
Big Week on the Farm review: RTÉ’s agents of F.I.E.L.D.This experiment in agri-tainment, broadcast live from Cavan pastureland, is an immensely stressful exercise in animal husbandryTue Apr 04 2017 - 15:22
‘The Gate attracts drifters. It’s about making it a beacon’In her first interview in her new role, Selina Cartmell, only the fourth artistic director in the Gate's 90-year history, discusses her plans for the theatre's futureSat Apr 01 2017 - 05:00
Fortitude finale - ramps up the crazy and goes out on an explosive highWith the rest of the cast butchered, beheaded, incinerated, infected, crushed, and shot, Richard Dormer is left to steal the showThu Mar 30 2017 - 21:58
The Effect at the Project review: the unmasking of a chemical romanceTwo volunteers on a drugs trial begin to have some strange attractions in Lucy Prebble’s love-sceptical playThu Mar 30 2017 - 12:05
Dave Chappelle: Obeying the laws of comedyThe black comedian has two new specials on Netflix. But is he a secret conservative?Wed Mar 29 2017 - 17:03
Want a single entendre? ‘Mrs Brown’ will give you one“Who the hell watches Mrs Brown?” About half the audience share, according to the figures on Brendan O’Carroll’s new chat showMon Mar 27 2017 - 12:44
Porn and the Angelus? It must be Brendan O'Connor's Cutting EdgeCutting Edge is a talk show that actually demonstrates listening. These days, that’s a pretty sharp tacticThu Mar 23 2017 - 12:11
‘It’s not unusual to find the actors playing the lovers actually fall in love’What happens when love really is the drug? Lucy Prebble, writer of Secret Diary of a Call Girl and Enron, explores the options with a play about a clinical drug trialThu Mar 23 2017 - 05:00
The Catch is less a detective show, more an erotic gamePerma-smirking Peter Krause and thrillseeker Mireille Enos back for series two of the Shonda Rhimes showThu Mar 23 2017 - 00:30
Razor-sharp, affectionate take on founding of national theatreCorn Exchange’s marvellous, witty creation brings house down at the AbbeyWed Mar 22 2017 - 16:19
Deep excavation of a betrayal where victims blamed themselvesA pharmaceutical scandal over birth defects in Britain has been unravelling and stalling for half a century. Can a documentary bring new evidence to light?Wed Mar 22 2017 - 10:00
Michael Gambon at the Gate: ‘The performance of a lifetime’In two short plays at the Beckett Friel Pinter Festival, one brings us up close and personal with a great actor, while another finds romance in creativityFri Mar 17 2017 - 13:45
Iron Fist review: A show you will never get tired of slappingIron Fist is the last and by all means least of the comic book stable’s street-level heroesFri Mar 17 2017 - 12:01
Spotify knows we’ve got Ed Sheeran on repeat. Should it feel like a guilty secret?Streaming services’ unforgiving metrics reveal our true habits. But that doesn’t mean we can’t also aim higherFri Mar 17 2017 - 05:00
The Yalta Game at the Gate: a seesaw of guilt and passion, while reality lurks nearbyFalling in love is the hardest thing, in this less-is-more production of Brian Friel’s playThu Mar 16 2017 - 18:27
Autism and Me review: 'I mostly try to show that I am not stupid'RTÉ’s brilliant documentary focuses on people with autism, and in the words of one contributor is a stirring look at ‘my aesthetic world, vast and beautiful’Tue Mar 14 2017 - 16:17
Big Little Lies review: Daily character assassinations in the valley of the iPhonesThis show wants to be God of Carnage but ends up as Desperate Housewives. And when a character tucks a revolver under her pillow, you can say goodnight to dramatic subtletyTue Mar 14 2017 - 12:00
Women on Walls review: putting everyone in the picture, for a changeCameras follow the brushstrokes as the Royal Irish Academy creates its first-ever portraits of female membersThu Mar 09 2017 - 23:00
Prime Suspect 1973: You’ve come a long way, Jane TennisonPrime Suspect 1973 has smart moments and is full of great period detail, but feels thinner than its 1990s forebearThu Mar 09 2017 - 22:49
Ballyturk review: life behind and beyond the fourth wallShades of Vladimir and Estragon, by way of Morcambe and Wise, brilliantly colour this revived and recast take on Enda Walsh tale of creation and confinementThu Mar 09 2017 - 13:57
Après Match TV review: acidic nostalgia and dark observationsThe best jokes are in the 1970s-style ad breaks. ‘Don’t have that fifth pint before driving’Tue Mar 07 2017 - 13:00
Haunting dance, scabrous comedy: the ‘Irish Times’ Irish theatre award winnersThe major prizes at this year’s event were shared among a varied set of productionsSun Mar 05 2017 - 21:30
Deafening review: Is the condition a ‘gift’, a hindrance or something more complex?It’s a different experience to be deaf in Ireland today, where impediments are fewer and choices have broadened, but a documentary on families with the condition prefers to avoid the noise of argumentsThu Mar 02 2017 - 15:37
