Event of the week: To Hell in a HandbagLike the Oscar Wilde play that inspired it, To Hell in a Handbag imagines characters spinning complicated, comic fictions that bend reality to their willSat Aug 24 2019 - 05:00
I’m seeing someone else. She’s called Heidi and has eight legsReview: Divorcee and scientist David Scheel has formed a unique bond with his pet octopusThu Aug 22 2019 - 22:00
Ask Too Much of Me review: A sharp, compassionate take on being young in DublinVeronica Coburn directs the National Youth Theatre in Dylan Coburn Gray’s compelling portrayal of the Repeal generationThu Aug 22 2019 - 13:41
Good boy! Can you train a baby like a dog?Review: As one of the ‘desperate parents’ to whom this show is pitched, I’ll try anythingWed Aug 21 2019 - 11:49
‘Dead. Dead. Dead.’ The day Lord Mountbatten, two boys, one woman and 18 soldiers diedReview: Relatives, friends and others recall the day in 1979 when the IRA killed 22 peopleTue Aug 20 2019 - 15:39
The Story of Rugby: How an elite took possession of the game and didn’t let goReview: RTÉ’s history of the game pulls no punches, tackling colonialism, class war and sexismThu Aug 15 2019 - 23:45
Kate Winslet’s iffy ancestors: Whipper, tailor, soldier, thiefAn exceptionally gloomy Who Do You Think You Are? introduces the actor to her dodgy forebearsWed Aug 14 2019 - 17:32
Much Ado about Nothing review: Booze, subversion and anxietyRough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holidayWed Aug 14 2019 - 12:52
The Big Chapel X review: A story of schism brings a community togetherThis huge adaptation of Thomas Kilroy’s novel is both an impassioned critique and a persuasive illustration of crowd controlMon Aug 12 2019 - 16:18
A tour of Ireland’s stridently miserable placenamesField of lepers? Deceitful strand? Town of thieves? Our ancestors clearly didn’t want visitorsMon Aug 12 2019 - 12:12
Getting Scrapefoot, an immersive Goldilocks art installation, just rightWhen theatre designer Owen Boss began bringing his children to work, it became a test run for a new project at The ArkSat Aug 10 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhemRough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel XSat Aug 10 2019 - 00:01
Aisling Bea’s This Way Up is spicy, sharp, but ultimately conventionalReview: Áine’s attraction to the upper-crust Richard is the stuff of standard romcom fantasyFri Aug 09 2019 - 10:00
Euphoria: Brimming with dysfunction and self-harmReview: Sky Atlantic’s new show presents itself as the naked truth of post-millennial AmericaTue Aug 06 2019 - 23:33
When Michael Met Davy: ‘He pretends to be a tough child, but he’s a very soft child’This elegant documentary followed 11-year-old Michael as he gave Wexford’s hurlers a pre-game pep talkTue Aug 06 2019 - 12:05
The week’s best theatre: Still waiting for GodotVladimir and Estragon, Beckett’s two dishevelled survivors, aren’t going anywhere for the summerSat Aug 03 2019 - 00:01
The two best theatre shows on this weekRedemption Falls in An Taibhdhearc in Galway, The Same at Galway AirportSat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00
The week’s best theatre: Two new plays going by their gutThese Stupid Things at Smock Alley Theatre and Cleft at O’Donoghue Theatre are his week’s highlightsSat Jul 20 2019 - 05:00
Queer Eye: Back on Netflix, whether you want it or notNone of the transformations is as profound as what the Fab Five do to the English languageFri Jul 19 2019 - 15:16
Epiphany review: The play that’s a meditation on theatre itselfThose who gather to celebrate Epiphany aren’t quite sure what it’s all about – can this Joyce-inspired play make it any clearer?Fri Jul 19 2019 - 14:00
Red Kettle return for a Waterford reunion: This week’s theatre highlightsHurling and history collide in The Red Iron, the company’s first production since 2014Fri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21
The best theatre shows to see this weekMarvellous Sarah Morris and Stephen Jones feature in ClassFri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21
The best theatre shows to see this weekLisa Dwan and Colm Tóibín rework Antigone by giving voice to overshadowed sister IsmeneFri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21
The week’s best plays: Asking for It and Playboy of the Western WorldLouis O’Neill’s Asking for It is revived for the Gaiety, while Playboy crosses the BorderFri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21
The week’s best plays: Playboy of the Western World and FaultlineDublin Theatre Festival productions examine Irish theatre and history from new anglesFri Jul 19 2019 - 10:21
Sole survivors get heeled: The best theatre of the weekAsk Too Much of Me addresses faith while Kinky Boots gives drag queens a platformFri Jul 19 2019 - 10:20
Dead Dog in a Suitcase review: An abrasive, ragged comic operaGalway International Arts Festival: However crude the satire, nothing can compete with reality in 2019Thu Jul 18 2019 - 11:12
GameFace: Roisin Conaty serves up sexual frankness and women-behaving-badly comedyReview: The Irish actor’s flailing adventures continue in this edgy Channel 4 sitcomThu Jul 18 2019 - 09:56
Karl Shiels: Maybe because he had been an electrician he was aware of the capacity to shockA passionate advocate for originality, he knew that theatre could be electrifyingTue Jul 16 2019 - 15:15
Poldark: Aidan Turner passes his James Bond auditionReview: Over four series, Ross Poldark has become a calmer, wiser, shirtier characterSun Jul 14 2019 - 23:48
Epiphany and Dead Dog in a Suitcase: theatre shows to catch this weekDruid Theatre Company stages Brian Watkins’s new play Epiphany, a serious comedy with Joycean inspiration, Cornwall’s Kneehigh turn The Beggars Opera on its headSat Jul 13 2019 - 05:00
Generation Porn: ‘Even if you’re not looking for porn, it’s going to find you’How ironic: Channel 4 screens a mature documentary on the digital porn revolutionThu Jul 11 2019 - 15:45
Can experimental theatre be sentimental?Inspired by the loss of its home, Dublin Youth Theatre partners with Pan Pan to contemplate youth and adulthood in The SleepwalkersWed Jul 10 2019 - 10:47
For £3m, a family stays silent about their son’s sexual abuseIn BBC’s new drama, Dark Money, justice is available only to those who can afford itTue Jul 09 2019 - 11:00
If you wanted ‘a bit of fun’ in 1950s Ireland, there was only one lubricant availableArdal O’Hanlon’s charming history of showbands takes the fun side of Irish life seriouslyMon Jul 08 2019 - 22:45
The Bull Will Come Out Tomorrow: this week's best theatre showsA new play imagines the fractious compatibility between Ernest Hemingway and F Scott Fitzgerald, while an old musical makes a comeback for the summerSat Jul 06 2019 - 05:00
When Trump Came to Town: Tipping the hat to the landlordReview: On one side are the protesters, on the other the good people of DoonbegThu Jul 04 2019 - 20:57
Stranger Things Season 3: The gaudy 1980s, in rich colour, thick mist and thin emotionsReview: The show’s creators take us to their spiritual home, repackaging the 1980s as they goThu Jul 04 2019 - 13:12
Getting to know Anna, the woman who went to fight IsisReview: Anna Campbell, a far-left radical Englishwoman, was 25 when she went to SyriaWed Jul 03 2019 - 22:30
‘I don’t think I would be a writer were it not for Irish writers’US playwright Brian Watkins takes inspiration from Joyce’s The Dead for his latest work, EpiphanySat Jun 29 2019 - 05:00
When is a dog not a dog? When it’s an Irish greyhoundReview: RTÉ Investigates exposes shocking treatment of greyhounds in the racing industryThu Jun 27 2019 - 12:17
Honouring the Magdalenes: ‘When you start talking, you open your mouth and it all comes out’RTÉ’s ‘Coming Home’ looks back on 2018’s well-wishing event for Magdalene laundry survivorsWed Jun 26 2019 - 12:01
Thought-provoking theatre where the audience is just youReview: Theatre for One’s six microplays are bracing, intimate-as-a-whisper performancesTue Jun 25 2019 - 05:00
Boris Johnson’s main opponent ... Boris JohnsonLeadership debate TV review: In a wily tactic, Johnson pretended he wasn’t a politician at allWed Jun 19 2019 - 15:46
The Big DIY Challenge: PJ Gallagher pulls it together faster than a Billy bookcaseReview: The new show is a feat of cost-effective executionTue Jun 18 2019 - 21:00
Theatre highlights: Unmanageable Sisters returns to the stageFionn Foley’s solo show Brendan Galileo for Europe onstage ahead of fringe outingsSat Jun 15 2019 - 05:00
The Brigade: Teaching today’s young Cork men how to ambush the BritishReview: A TV show based on the War of Independence feels too close to current realitiesThu Jun 13 2019 - 23:15
Oliver Callan’s Divorcing God too often feels like ‘kneejerk conservatism’Review: The comedian’s search for meaning in post-Catholic Ireland doesn’t rock the boatWed Jun 12 2019 - 22:52
The Mick Flannery album that grew into a musicalThe characters in Ursula Rani Sarma’s first musical, a collaboration with the Cork singer-songwriter called Evening Train, yearn to escape their small-town homeSat Jun 08 2019 - 05:00
Maureen Flavin, the Mayo weather woman who made D-Day workHer forecast of clement weather on June 6th 1944 helped to secure victory for the AlliesThu Jun 06 2019 - 23:15
