What the Ladybird Heard – Pavilion Theatre – Review by Pia Maltri If you are unsure whether a traditional panto may fit the bill of your children’s Christmas entertainment, then I highly […]

Michelle & Arlene – Holiday Special – Accidental Theatre – Review by Cathy Brown Michelle and Arlene Holiday Special: Planes Trains and Tractors Given the political situation in Northern Ireland at the […]

Project Pop Up – Project Arts Centre – Review This was billed as a taster menu for Irish Theatre. A flavour of what you can expect to see in the Project Arts […]

Disco Pigs & Sucking Dublin – Smock Alley – Review 4 – 16 Dec | 7:30pm | Boys’ School This is a collection of two short plays by Reality: Check Productions. Both […]

BANG BANG – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L. December 04 – 23, 2017 Thomas Dudley was born in Dublin 1906. His parents died when he was young and he […]

Two of Clubs – Theatre Upstairs – Review by Frank L. Until December 16th It is 1938, Polly (Jessica Leen) lives in Cork and feels trapped by the constraints of her little […]

The Red Shoes – Gate Theatre – Review by Frank L. Until 27th January, 2018 – Photo Credit: Ste Murray. We realise that this is not a conventional Christmas story right from […]

The Grimm Tale of Cinderella – Smock Alley Theatre – Review by Keith Thompson Main Space – 5-23rd Dec Ella (Danielle Galligan), is the caring daughter of Henrik (Finbarr Doyle), intent on […]

Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play – Project Arts Centre – Review by Keith Thompson Rough Magic Presents – Mr Burns: A Post-Electric Play by Anne Washburn (Rough Magic SEEDS Showcase 2017) Project […]

They Called Her Vivaldi – Abbey Theatre (Peacock) – Review Dates: 30 November – 23 December On the Peacock Stage Photos by Ros Kavanagh Cecilia Maria (Genevieve Hulme-Beaman) has a magical hat. […]

Beauty & the Beast – Lyric Theatre – Review Until 6th January 2018 The timeless tale of Beauty and the Beast gets the rock-opera treatment in the Lyric Theatre’s fun and infectious […]

Who Will Carry the Word? – The Complex – Review Black Light Productions of Who Will Carry the Word? – Mon 27th Nov to Sat 2nd Dec 2017 As you enter the upstairs […]

Let The Right One In – Abbey Theatre – Review by Pia Maltri Dates: 18 Nov 2017 – 6 Jan 2018 On the Abbey Stage – Photos by Ros Kavanagh I was told […]

The Restoration of Hope – New Theatre – Review Until December 16th Hope (Jody O’Neill) finds herself shivering in a strange room. She has a memory of drowning but it must be […]

Sunset Boulevard – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review by Fran Winston Tickets €20-€60. Show 7.30pm nightly until November 25th.Matinee 2.30pm Saturday 25th November Billy Wilder’s seminal 1950 movie sunset Boulevard remains […]

You Could Be Us – Smock Alley Theatre – Review by Frank L Until Nov 21st at Smock Alley Theatre Fregoli have become regular visitors to Smock Alley in recent years but […]

We had the chance to ask writer Philip St. John some questions about his new work ‘The Restoration of Hope’ which opens at the New Theatre today. We asked him about how […]

Judas – Viking Theatre – Review by David Minogue Until Nov 25th The Viking Theatre @ The Sheds in Clontarf recently celebrated six years since it was founded. In that time it […]

Dundrum One Act Festival 2017 – At the Hawk’s Well – Mill Theatre – Review by Audrey Devereux Friday 17th November, Mill Theatre, Dundrum. Directed by Aoibhinn Finnegan, this one-act play by Yeats […]

The Dumb Waiter – Lyric Theatre – Review by Cathy Brown Written by Harold Pinter Produced by Thomas Finnegan, Chris McCurry and Colm G. Doran Dates – 16 – 18 Nov 60 […]

Arambe Productions Presents – An Other Playboy…??? Dates: 14 Nov – 19 Nov – Show Time: 7.45pm Festival of African and Black Irish Theatre – Project Arts Centre Christy (Shane Connolly) arrives […]

Sacrament – Theatre Upstairs – Review by Frank L. Until Nov 25th Written and performed by Leigh Douglas This is a co-production between Theatre Upstairs and the Minerva Collective. The Collective was […]

Fire Below (A War of Words) – Abbey (Peacock) Theatre – Review by Frank L. Until November 18th Written by Owen McCafferty This is a companion piece to McCafferty’s hugely successful and […]

Strutting and Fretting: An Actor Despairs – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L. Until Nov 25th 2017 This is a one man show, written and performed by Chris McHallem. The […]

Boom? – Civic Theatre – Review by Frank L. Written by Isabel Mahon This is a revival of a situation comedy set in 2006 in Carrickmines when the Celtic Tiger was still […]

This is the Funeral of Your Life – Project Arts Centre – Review Louise White Presents – This is the Funeral of Your Life Dates: 03 Nov – 11 Nov – Show […]

Ross O’Carroll-Kelly – Postcards from the Ledge – Gaiety Theatre – Review by Patrick Viale Moving on a decade, Paul Howard’s latest excursion into the world of his alter ego, Ross O’Carroll-Kelly, […]

What Put the Blood – Peacock Stage @ Abbey Theatre – Review 25 October – 4 November 2017 Photography by Patrick Redmond The initial image of ‘What Put the Blood’ is quite […]