Connie review: The deeply tragic life of an Irish actor who became a Hollywood star
Theatre: Pom Boyd stars in clever, entertaining portrayal of Constance Smith’s extraordinarily novelistic life
Pillow Queens at the NCH: A beautiful performance, but the messy, communal ache at the heart of the music is missing
These Pillow Queens songs belong to half-lit bars and the roar of a crowd that knows every word
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan: a family saga, ghost story and social history rolled into one
Debut novel tackles dark times with lightness and compassion
Caligula, at Dublin Theatre Festival, resonates as a meditation on tyranny and resistance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama
Deaf Republic, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is daring, intricate and, above all, beautiful
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama
Deep Burn by Brendan Mac Evilly: A rural Irish thriller that doubles as an art-world satire
Behind the art-world lampooning lies a portrait of the creative mind
Konstantin, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an intelligent, quick and cracklingly alive take on Chekhov
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This inventive play asks what happens after The Seagull’s gunshot
The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai: A novel of tremendous scope and richness
Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable
Hair is the only part of the body we can easily and endlessly revise - it grows back
Rare though it is, when we actually achieve it, it makes all the fussing feel worth it
Self Esteem in Dublin review: A masterclass in pacing and performance that leaves the room buzzing
Beneath their bubbly surface, Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s pop songs hide a volcanic emotional terrain
To quit smoking you have to sincerely want to, and I’m not sure I do
I had my first cigarette at 15, for the same reason as most people: because you weren’t supposed to
Hamlet starring actors with Down syndrome: ‘It profoundly reconfigures the meaning of to be or not to be?’
Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin
Last Gig Ever!!, at Dublin Fringe, is less performance than audience endurance test
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: In Last Gig Ever!!, two performers in oversized dark suits thrash around for an hour
Alison Spittle’s show Big, at Dublin Fringe, is harrowing and hilarious
Dublin Fringe Festival review: Spittle is a fearless confessional comic and a great storyteller, as she shows in this bracingly honest account of life in a fat body
Clash at the Quays! II: Lokomania, at Dublin Fringe, is sweaty, sexy and mischievous
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do