The Plough and the Stars, Abbey Theatre, Dublin review - uneven centenary production of O'Casey's Easter Uprising odyssey David Nice Wed, 03/25/2026 - 10:23 …
Three outstanding performances in Conor McPherson's atmospheric five-hander Why are the Irish such good storytellers? The historical perspective is that the oral tradition goes way, way back…
Muti revitalised by young musicians, and a three-year theatre project reaches completion Anyone seeking local genius in an international festival should look no further than the annual Raven…
Chapters and scenes from 'Ulysses', 'Dubliners' and a children's story vividly done It amuses me that Dubliners dress up in Edwardian finery on 16 June. After all, this was the date in 1904 …
Estranged father, mother and son each doubled in Jon Fosse's mesmerising meditation Watching the stricken faces on the split screen, I felt at times like callow Farfrae in Hardy's The Mayor …
Let's make a coronation opera, with bags of dramatic licence Back in 2009, there were Ben and Wystan on stage (Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art). Last year came Ben and Master David Hemmings …
Variable ensemble yields some gripping scenes and monologues Dublin theatregoers have been inundated with Irish family gatherings concealing secrets or half-buried sorrows, mixing "bog gothi…
Joyce's great short story fully realised for 'invited guests' by a perfect ensemble James Joyce's Misses Morkan have gone up in the world for their Christmas gathering this year, from the up…
Ibsen's pitiless take on the 'life lie' is another triumph for Norwegians in Notting Hill "I think this is all very strange," declares 14-year-old Hedvig Ekdal at the end of The Wild Duck's …
   Operettaish bitter-sweetness raised to the sublime in a miracle of perfect timing Jerry Herman is the king of pep. Way too much of it in the first 20 minutes of the recent re…
Three talented performers in a revue that doesn't add up to much Catchy even when the lyrics are at their cheesiest, the Jerry Herman Songbook serves up a string of memorable tunes: you'll p…
Sophie Treadwell's 1928 hard hitter gets full musical and choreographic treatment Virtuosity and a wildly beating heart are compatible in Richard Jones's finely calibrated production of Rena…
THISISPOPBABY serves up a joyous tapestry of Ireland contemporary and traditional In what feels like the beginning, or at least the Old Testament, there was Riverdance. Now, ready to flow th…
Francesca Mills' protagonist is the vivacious, truthful heart of this fascinating production "All discord without this circumference," the Duchess of Malfi tells the good man she's just aske…
Real-life triangle around the composer's darkest masterpiece yields fitfully strong drama David Hemmings was, by his own later admission, a knowing and bumptious boy when Britten cast him as…
Five heroic women and two instrumentalists go Hellenic, with panache This is the show that launched a thousand puns, mostly ancient-Greek-oriented, and just as many corny rhymes, all deliver…
Patsy Ferran's vibrant Eliza Doolittle sparks Bertie Carvel's Henry Higgins into human life Many of us have perhaps grown too accustomed to the friendly face of My Fair Lady. George Bernard …
Teatro delle Albe's Don Quixote drama rivals Riccardo Muti's Paths of Friendship concert Came for the music, returned for the theatre. I oversimplify: Riccardo Muti's Roads of Friendship eve…
Siobhán McSweeney goes way beyond the expected in a transfixing performance Siobhán McSweeney is to be loved as a person for her speech when she received a BAFTA for Best Female Perfor…
Cathy Belton's devastating economy steers Mark O'Rowe's quietly stunning Ibsen Church and law are enemies of promise in Ibsen's tragedy-without-catharis. You can see why this devastating att…
A suitably phantasmagoical vision in strong teamwork by Calderón's compatriots Dream versus reality, fate and free will, love and death, nature versus nurture: they're all here in CalderÅ
White-heat Strindberg from Norwegian actors undeterred by technical hitches You don't have to be Scandinavian to act out Strindberg's fantastical extremes at the highest level, but I've not …
Enda Walsh's second drama on now about ritualised isolation is mesmerising Commuting between London and Dublin has its fascinations.10 days ago, I saw for the first time at the Southwark Pla…
Four spot-on performances confirm that Enda Walsh's queasy thriller is here to stay The farce in question is fast and furious, but not often hilariously funny; that's because it's the invent…
Justin Vivian Bond and Anthony Roth Costanzo in an absolutely fabulous double act You know you're in good company the minute these two appear on stage: they are so splendidly what they are, …