Little Shop of Horrors review: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s first homegrown show is a sure-footed take on the cult musical
Jacqueline Brunton and David O’Reilly star in a production that leans into the campest qualities of Ashman and Menken’s modern fairy tale
Children’s fiction: The Moon Seeker is a wildly original debut and worthy Staróg prize-winner
Plus: The Nightmare Club by Annie Graves; Taking the Long Way Home by Jake Hope; Our Pebbles by Jarvis; Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton, and more
Dublin’s biggest theatre is staging its first production. Will its Little Shop of Horrors pull off a coup?
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre normally welcomes West End shows. It’s no small task to mount the venue’s first homegrown production, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s comedy-horror musical
Six in Dublin review: Henry VIII’s wives are recast as pop princesses. One above all deserves the crown
Theatre: On a hot first night, the cast of this well-oiled touring production has to work hard to win the audience over
‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born
Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
Children’s fiction: if trees could talk, what would they say?
Eoin McLaughlin’s Once I Was a Tree gives the natural world its own voice; plus two fun titles from a new Irish publisher
The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe review: Narnia adaptation is a thrilling testament to the wonder of live theatre
Michael Fentiman’s touring production is deeply thoughtful in its approach to staging CS Lewis’s classic children’s book
Myra’s Story review: Belching and scratching, Myra admirably refuses to apologise for her descent into alcoholism and homelessness
Two doors up from the Gaiety Theatre a homeless man is stretched out on the footpath, invisible to theatregoers keen to get to their seats before the curtain call. Inside the ornate Victorian theatre Myra Hennessy holds a similarly supine position on the stage, her head resting on a bag stuffed full of her possessions. “Look me in the eye,” she says as she harangues an imaginary pedestrian who refuses to engage with her request for spare change
How CS Lewis’s Irish childhood influenced the Chronicles of Narnia
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
Children’s fiction: Books with gnomes, aliens, monsters and climate catastrophe
Including The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen, After by Pádraig Kenny and more
Dr Strangelove in Dublin review: Steve Coogan gives a bravura performance, but the play around him falls a little flat
Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy
Britney Spears meets Shakespeare: How & Juliet puts a pop twist on star-cross’d lovers
& Juliet creator David West Read’s TV credits include Schitt’s Creek but his passion for theatre propelled him to rewrite a Shakespeare classic featuring the music of one of pop’s top hit makers
War Horse: ‘I forget that Joey is being manipulated by people. They’re breathing, making sounds and moving like a horse would’
A new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel brings the kinship of boy and beast alive in a triumph of theatrical storytelling
Mary Poppins review: A practically perfect masterclass in storytelling for the stage
Theatre: This thrilling Cameron Mackintosh-Disney show capitalises on PL Travers’s original story, which has so much more to offer than the films
Eilish Fisher on how a winter morning walk in the isolated hills around Glenmalure inspired her to write for children
Fisher’s award-winning book for children, Fia and the Last Snow Deer, was inspired by the wilds of her Wicklow home, and her love of poetry and mythology