Theatre Review

Smokey jazz music welcomes you to 1968 Manhattan so vividly that you reach for a phantom cigarette to follow a non-existent sip of a martini. To intensify your desire for a drink, there’s a fully stocked bar adjacent to the front door of a…

The New Irish Playbook/Joe O'Neill, written and directed by Joe O’Neill is a series of short plays that narrate the trials and challenges of everyday life, tinged with strokes of lightness and humour. O’Neill has been writing for just a…

The Gaiety Theatre in Dublin is currently showing a production of The Weir. Written by acclaimed playwright Conor McPherson in 1997, The Weir won the Evening Standard, Critics’ Circle and Olivier awards for Best New Play when it was first…

We started a debate, and we voted. Things are different now. We have made history. That’s what the Irish political class would have us believe. It’s a nice story, right? Everything tied up nicely in the end, like a well heeled shoe. Gays…

Ivan Turgenev’s layered 1850 comedy-drama of romance and heartbreak on a 19th century Russian estate receives a spirited rendition under the direction of Ethan McSweeny. Natalya (Aislin McGuckin) dominates the life of this country house.…

John Carney’s little indie film that could returns home as an unusual musical by playwright Enda Walsh and originating director John Tiffany helming. Tiffany is responsible for the highly disconcerting set-up in which the audience can…