The Heiress review: youthful desire versus elder tyranny, with a cash prizeThe Gate's big Christmas show is an adaptation of a Henry James’s novella. It could be played as a reassuring costume drama – but instead we get something more complexThu Nov 24 2016 - 13:20
Whatever happend to Francie Brady?Catching up with the original Butcher Boy in a psychiatric institution, Pat McCabe’s new play feels less like a sequel than a bemusing post-scriptThu Nov 24 2016 - 13:19
Test Dummy review: a study in damage that can’t get beyond the wreckageCaitríona Daly’s play attempts to slip into a stream-of-consciousness but can’t break its own vicious cycleWed Nov 23 2016 - 10:00
Mike Pence goes to the theatre – and lights up the cuture wars all over againWhat do we make of US vice-president-elect’s visit to the stage musical ‘Hamilton’ and of Donald Trump’s Twitter review?Mon Nov 21 2016 - 07:42
Technophobes find no succour during Science WeekTV Review: ‘Bridget & Eamon’, ‘Hacked’, ‘Cloud Control’, ‘Last Week Tonight with John Oliver’Fri Nov 18 2016 - 14:00
Honest review: time for a profanity-laden lunchbreak, perhaps?Honesty may be the worst possible policy in DC Moore’s acrid comedy, given an engaging production by Bewley’s Cafe TheatreThu Nov 17 2016 - 14:33
The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposedWilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both waysWed Nov 16 2016 - 19:00
Bridget and Eamon: a show with notions above the TV MidlandsLuridly kitsch design can’t cover up the lack of fresh material in this second seasonTue Nov 15 2016 - 11:01
TV review, My Mother and Other Strangers: heavy on nostalgia, low on subtletyThe show is obsessed with the inevitability of change though its approach seems trapped in the pastThu Nov 10 2016 - 12:47
Ghost the Musical review: Afterlife love story is dead on arrivalHell is surely enduring yet another lifeless stage musical knockoff of a hit filmWed Nov 09 2016 - 17:25
TV review: The Blindboy leads the blind in the Rubberbandits Guide to MoneyMr Chrome and a talking fish makes as much sense of the economy as the analysis available on more sober channelsTue Nov 08 2016 - 14:35
Is it curtains for regional theatre as we know it?With the closure of several regional theatre companies since 2008, and new funding mechanisms that favour Dublin-based artists, can regional theatre ever return to health?Tue Nov 08 2016 - 05:00
TV Review: Planet Earth II brings Pixar-style stories to the natural worldThe BBC’s latest nature documentary series is phenomenal, from its love-sick sloths to its canny social media campaignMon Nov 07 2016 - 15:06
Television: Same of Thrones as Netflix shows its royal flushReview: As RTÉ 2 broadcasts a necessary documentary on rape culture, Netflix looks at the British monarchyFri Nov 04 2016 - 13:00
Asking For It TV review: starting the conversation on consentLouise O’Neill explores Ireland’s rape culture in this fascinating Reality Bites documentaryWed Nov 02 2016 - 13:22
Alice in Wonderland review: curious return to the pastBlue Raincoat takes a nostalgic trip down the rabbit hole of its own historyFri Oct 28 2016 - 16:30
Review: Taylor Mac at the Belfast International Arts FestivalIn an artfully camp revue of WWI-era songs, the dazzling performance artist Taylor Mac conscripts the audience into an enjoyable and revealing queering of historyThu Oct 27 2016 - 11:47
Culture Shock: From Chekhov to ‘Westworld’, what’s with the doomer mentality?HBO’s must-see series is more evidence that philosophical pessimism grows in appeal during downbeat timesFri Oct 21 2016 - 13:00
Donegal review: family saga is Chekhov in cowboy bootsFrank McGuinness’s sprawling new ‘play with songs’ does not always hit the high notesThu Oct 13 2016 - 15:35
Dario Fo: a master storyteller and fearlessly critical artistThe Italian actor, director and dramatist never shied away from confrontation – from the Vatican to BerlusconiThu Oct 13 2016 - 14:35
Every Brilliant Thing review: Nothing trivial about this listIn Duncan Macmillan’s charming play, the audience helps compile a list of things that make life worth livingWed Oct 12 2016 - 11:00
Circus Animals’ Desertion review: Know the dancer from the catBrokentalkers’ surreal piece of dance theatre takes WB Yeats at his wordSat Oct 08 2016 - 11:00
The Seagull review: Chekhov feels at home in IrelandIn Corn Exchange’s witty and absorbing new version, set in contemporary Ireland, the feathers fly againFri Oct 07 2016 - 11:00
Guerrilla review: What’s the worst that can happen?Behind the outwardly peaceable or noisy crowd scenes in this dystopian fantasy, there are wars waiting to eruptMon Oct 03 2016 - 17:14
What happens to perspective when theatre adopts a first-person narrative?Consider Friel’s plays and you realise what happens on stage can be acutely subjectiveSat Oct 01 2016 - 06:00
These Rooms review: bringing unresolved history back to lifeDublin Theatre Festival: Time stands still in Anu and CoisCéim’s thrillingly immersive co-production, where the unresolved traumas of the aftermath of the Rising haunt a buildingFri Sept 30 2016 - 13:00
Breaking Rainbows review: equal parts gently imaginative and conceptually woollyDublin Theatre Festival: Ideas flock together in visual artist and shepherd Orla Barry new performance pieceFri Sept 30 2016 - 12:30
A Midsummer Night’s Dream review: The Rude Mechanicals run the showDublin Theatre Festival: Shakespeare’s comedy of transformation and desire meets the raucous energy of an outdoor music festival in an anarchic productionThu Sept 29 2016 - 12:30
Dublin Fringe reviews: Gays Against the Free State! BlackCatfishMusketeer, Traitor and TrystThe anarchic clatter of agit-prop has many things to say about the position of LGBT people in Irish society...Thu Sept 22 2016 - 12:30
The Beauty Queen of Leenane review: old elemental conflicts meet new pop-culture obsessionsDruid ’s new production of Martin McDonagh’s 1996 play, where violence is best kept in the family, has Marie Mullen, originally the daughter, now playing her tormentorWed Sept 21 2016 - 17:02
Dublin Fringe reviews: RIOT is the festival's most exhilarating spectacleRIOT - Can a great night out also count as a political act?Mon Sept 19 2016 - 16:05
Martin McDonagh: A history of violenceAfter 20 years Druid Theatre Company is reviving ‘The Beauty Queen of Leenane’. Here its creator looks backSat Sept 17 2016 - 03:00
Dublin Fringe reviews: ‘Save yourself. Leave Troy. Found Rome’The festival continues with an ebullient take on an epic and unsettling dance theatreFri Sept 16 2016 - 00:00
The Father review: Owen Roe gives a masterful performance in Zeller’s playIn this empathetic and slippery production, as his confusion grows, so does oursThu Sept 15 2016 - 15:29
Review of ‘Helen and I’: A gnarled family treeMcHugh has a skilled hand for creating mood, sly dialogue and psychological excavation, but seems less concerned with the mechanics of plotThu Sept 15 2016 - 06:00
Dublin Fringe begins: reviews from the opening weekendThe opening weekend of the Fringe festival bursts into life with disturbing future visions and exhilarating burlesqueMon Sept 12 2016 - 14:00
Five star Electric Picnic review: NAOFollowing a row in the Ticket shed two critics insisted on reviewing Nao. They actually gave it 10 stars.Mon Sept 05 2016 - 07:00
Tiger Dublin Fringe: five ways to choose what to seeFrom Panti Bliss and Hot Brown Honey to The Vaudevillians, here’s what you might pickSat Sept 03 2016 - 05:00
Life, hope and Led Zeppelin on the front line of the Irish health serviceTelevision review: ‘Keeping Ireland Alive: The Irish Health Service in a Day, ‘Victoria’ and season two of ‘Narcos’Fri Sept 02 2016 - 14:15
Stacey Gregg’s play Scorch wins a Fringe First in EdinburghWork, inspired by UK case, was written from perspective of a gender curious teenagerFri Aug 26 2016 - 18:53
Pygmalion review: Eliza Doolittle gets a muddled makeoverShaw’s classic is Frankenstein with better elocution and a bit more screamingWed Aug 24 2016 - 17:26
Culture Shock: The price of everything and the value of nothingWith the advent of state subsidy, it isn’t unreasonable that arts and culture might account for themselves – but how?Sat Aug 20 2016 - 05:00
The Get Down: Netflix's latest series that cost $10m an episodeBaz Luhrmann breaks the bank with $10m an episode in Netflix’s hip-hop odyssey, while John Oliver has the last wordFri Aug 12 2016 - 11:21
Observe the Sons of Ulster review: history, psyche and sexuality writ largeAn excellent cast serve Frank McGuinness’s play well, but the direction is never allowed an open attack on at its battlelinesWed Aug 10 2016 - 17:31
Road to Rio: A rare glimpse of the human frailty behind Olympic dreamsTV review: ‘Road to Rio’, ‘Great American Railroad Journeys’, ‘How to Win the US Presidency’Sat Aug 06 2016 - 06:00
TV review: Portillo’s predictable train of thought, and a wild ride to the US presidencyMichael Portillo is chasing his Brit-centric idea of the US, while Cal Saville’s plan for taking the Oval Office is all slogan and no substanceWed Aug 03 2016 - 17:23
Billy Elliot the Musical review: dancing across the picket line all the way to the bankNever mind the political quality in this West End production, feel the mega musical widthFri Jul 29 2016 - 09:51
Dublin Theatre Festival launches with ambitious programme for 2016“It’s all about forward momentum,” says artistic director Willie WhiteTue Jul 26 2016 - 15:39
Does satire work? The size of Donald Trump’s ego suggests notEven Stephen Colbert struggled to land a comedy blow at this week's Republican Party conventionSat Jul 23 2016 - 05:00
Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour theatre review: an impeccably considered display of bad behaviourA superb cast play by their own rules in this entertaining school-days adventureFri Jul 22 2016 - 15:28
