
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Smock Alley – Review by Helen O’Leary Until April 11th. PurpleCoat Productions interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a thoroughly modern production. The play is one […]
A Midsummer Night’s Dream – Smock Alley – Review by Helen O’Leary Until April 11th. PurpleCoat Productions interpretation of A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a thoroughly modern production. The play is one […]
A Man in Two Pieces written by Gerard Adlum – Review by Frank L. Theatre Upstairs – 07 April 2015 – 18 April 2015 Kerrigan (Stephen Brennan) is the actor and manager […]
Intentions – Civic Theatre – Review by C MacNamara DATE & TIME: Tues, 7th – Sat, 11th April // 8:15pm The Moogles Theatre Company Director/Writer: Alice Lynch Starring: Bernie O’Reilly, Catherine McKiernan […]
God Bless The Child, First Confessions are the Hardest! – Review by Helen O’Leary Gaiety Theatre – 31 March 2015 – 11 April 2015 This play adapts for the stage some of […]
The Girl Who Believed in Magic – Created and Performed by Julie Feeney Runs until – 11 April 2015 7.30pm / 9.30pm Tickets €22/18 As you enter the theatre, you are greeted with […]
Are You Havin’ a Laugh? written by Peter Sheridan – Review by Frank L March 30 – April 18, 2015 Time: 1pm (doors at 12.50pm) Peter Sheridan having written three books of […]
One Sandwich short of a Genius – Smock Alley – Review It is less than one week until Becky’s wedding and her mother is determined for everything to be perfect. They have […]
The Baltimore Waltz written by Paula Vogel – Review by Frank L. As you take your seat, on the stage are a man and a woman lying under a duvet in a […]
Mother May I? written by Ranae von Meding – Review by Frank L Ranae von Meding acts the sole part which is that of a young female who was brought up somewhere […]
In Search of Mr. B – Directions Out Theatre Company at Civic Theatre, Tallaght – Review by P McGovern. The stage is dominated by a black coffin – and a living ventriloquist’s […]
Morning, Afternoon & Evening – March 23 – 28 Written & Performed by Andy Hinds – At the Viking Theatre The play consists of three parts, each narrated by a different character. […]
Mary Mary Mary at Smock Alley – Review by Frank L. Directed by the author and Kate Murray, Mary Mary Mary depicts the lives of three generations of women from some rural […]
Death of a Comedian – Peacock theatre at the Abbey – Review Booking details – Dates: 10 March – 4 April We join Steve as he is about to take the stage […]
The Canterbury Tales presented by the BA Drama (Performance) Graduates of DIT Conservatory of Music and Drama – The Banqueting Hall, Smock Alley, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8. March 11th […]
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell and adapted by Phelim Drew March 09 – 28, 2015 Time: 1pm (doors at 12.50pm) George Orwell, although ending up being educated […]
Liam Hallahan Buries His Dad Live On Stage by Some Yank’s Theatre Company March 9th-14th at 8pm in The Boy’s School Charles Hallahan was a man that died hundreds of times. He […]
Hollow Ground written by Katie McCann – Review by Frank L The siblings, Hazel (Katie McCann) and Graham (Rex Ryan) stand on either side of the stage facing the audience. They do […]
Collaborations Festival Review – MEANwhile and As Seen on Radio – Double Bill – Collaborations Festival 2015 – Smock Alley – Review by Frank L. MEANwhile presented by Cup Theatre Company As […]
Metamorphosis by Kepler Theatre Company ran as part of the Collaborations Festival at Smock Alley – Review by Helen O’Leary. Metamorphosis was a novella first published by Franz Kafka in 1915 and […]
Returning to Haifa – New Theatre – Review by P McGovern The intersection of the personal and the political often makes for interesting drama. Especially when handled with restraint, acknowledging the complexities […]
The Pillowman – by Martin McDonagh Gaiety Theatre – 2 March 2015 – 14 March 2015 The play opens with a writer, Katurian, waiting to be interrogated in a room. He is joined […]
It is 1999 and a hot summer in New York. Gene is an Irish American living in Spanish Harlem with a Dominican girlfriend Perdita. When his Irish cousin Eoin turns up on […]
Portraits of a time in Bohemia – Written and Sung by Christof van der Berg – Review by Frank L. Bohemia is not the place in Europe famous for glass but that […]
The Hole written by John Sheehy – Review by Frank L. Bewleys Café Theatre is to be congratulated in finding a suitable nearby location in the Powerscourt Centre while its Grafton Street […]
Slender written by Shane O’Regan – Review by Frank L. Set deep in a forest somewhere in Ireland a young couple, Alex (Stephen O’Leary) and Rachael (Hilary Bowen-Walsh), are on a weekend […]
This is a tale told from two perspectives, a mother and a son. It is the story of a crime that became headline news and shocked a nation, but the origin seems […]
Underneath written and performed by Pat Kinevane – Produced by Fishamble – Review by Frank L. Pat Kinevane has two previous one man plays, Forgotten (2006) and Silent (2011) which have toured […]
Grace and Maggie – Smock Alley Main Space – Collaborations Festival – Review This is the story of a young gay couple living together in Dublin. They have just moved in together […]
When the show opens, the stage is filled with boxes and a single female protagonist. The young woman is opening a variety of boxes and examining their contents. They appear to be […]