Temptress – New Theatre – Review by C.K. MacNamara Oct 26th – Nov 7th @ 7.30pm Tickets: €15 (€12 conc.) Full of existential angst and nihilistic overtones, to call Philip St John’s […]
Temptress – New Theatre – Review
Foxy – Project Arts Centre – Review
Foxy – Project Arts Centre – Review 27 October 2015-07 November 2015 8.15pm Tickets €16/14 Foxy is the tale of a man that carries a mutant gene; one that differentiates him from […]
Cirque Des Rêves – Smock Alley – Review
Cirque Des Rêves – Review by C.K. MacNamara Until Sat 31st October @ 8pm, Matinee Saturday 31st @ 2.30pm, in The Boys’ School, Smock Alley Steeped in the Gothic glee of a […]
An Inspector Calls – Gaiety Theatre – Review
Gaiety Theatre – An Inspector Calls – Review – 27 October 2015 – 31 October 2015 We join the Birling family on a night of celebration. Gerald Croft is the guest at the […]
Interview with Gary Duggan – Tales from the Woods – Theatre Upstairs
We had the chance to interivew Gary Duggan ahead of the opening of Tales from the Woods: Sinister Tales for Hallowe’en at Theatre Upstairs. This is three new short plays written by […]
Dublin Event Guide (26-10-15 – 1-11-15)
So, we enter the second week of Halloween, in its new extended form! Due to the bank holiday weekend being last weekend, Halloween has been stretched a bit further than normal. It’s […]
Mrs. Shakespeare – Smock Alley – Review
Mrs. Shakespeare – Smock Alley – Review Thurs 22nd – Sat 24th October at 8pm Saturday Matinee @ 2pm in The Boys’ School Some four hundred years later, Shakespeare has been reincarnated. […]
Interview Noelle Brown – Foxy – Project Arts Centre
We had the chance to interview Noelle Brown, writer of Postscript and Foxy, which opens at the Project Arts Centre next week. You can see the results below. Verdant Productions presents – […]
Dubliners Dilemma – International Bar – Theatre Review
Dubliners Dilemma – International Bar – Review by Frank L Written and performed by Declan Gorman Venue: International Bar, Wicklow St. Dublin 2 Dates & Time: Tuesday 20th – Saturday 24th October, […]
Interview with Irene Kelleher – Mrs. Shakespeare – Smock Alley
We had the chance to interview performer Irene Kelleher ahead of the opening of Mrs. Shakespeare in Smock Alley next Thursday. You can see the results below. Mrs. Shakespeare runs in Smock […]
Dublin Event Guide (19-10-15 – 25-10-15)
This year, Halloween seems to have grown! There’s two weekends of spooky fun, with the Bram Stoker Festival and the Horrorthon taking place this weekend to go with the Bank Holiday Weekend. […]
Are you there Garth? It’s Me, Margaret – Gaiety Theatre – Review
Are you there Garth? It’s Me, Margaret Gaiety Theatre, South King Street, Dublin 2. Runs until October 25th. Tues- Sunday Evenings: 7:30pm. Saturday & Sunday matinee: 2:30pm If you aren’t aware of […]
Olympia – New Theatre – Review
Olympia – New Theatre – Review until Oct 24th @ 7.30pm Nathaniel is a brilliant, young medical student. He is always at the front of the lecture hall and the first to […]
Contractions – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
Contractions by Mike Bartlett October 13 – 31, 2015 Time: 1pm (doors at 12.50pm) Bewley’s Cafe Theatre is reconfigured by designer Aedin Cosgrove as the chairs for the audience line the perimeter […]
Going Spare – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Going Spare – Theatre Upstairs – Review by Frank L. Written by Siobhan Donnellan 13 October 2015 – 24 October 2015 – 7.00PM / Tuesday – Saturday – 1.00PM (matinee) / Wednesday + […]
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel – Smock Alley – Review – DTF
The True Story of Hansel and Gretel (Theatre Lovett): 4 – 11 Oct, Smock Alley Theatre As you descend into the depths of the Boys’ school in Smock Alley, you are already […]
Dublin Event Guide (12-10-15 – 18-10-15)
The Dublin Theatre Festival has finally left us, and we can all breathe a sigh of relief. The fear of missing out on the best thing in town is now gone and […]
Interview with Fiona Looney – Are you there Garth? It’s me Margaret
Are you there Garth? It’s me Margaret – Gaiety theatre from 13-25 October. – Interview by Frances Winston Tuesday – Sunday evenings: 7:30pm Saturday & Sunday matinee: 2:30pm We know what you […]
The Game – Project Arts Centre – Review – DTF
The Game – Project Arts Centre – Review by Cormac Fitzgerald Dates: Oct 7 – 11 Prostitution, we’re told in The Game, is the oldest profession in the world. And for as […]
The Oresteia – Trafalgar Studios – Review
The Oresteia – Trafalgar Studios – Review by Pat Levy London’s West End seems to be awash with light-hearted, life-enhancing musicals these days so it was with a certain trepidation that I […]
The Cherry Orchard – O’Reilly Hall – Review – DTF
The Cherry Orchard – Stan Theatre Group at O’Reilly Hall, Belvdere College – Review by P. McGovern Dates – Oct 7 – 10 Their programme note tells us that STAN theatre group […]
King Lear – Mill Theatre Dundrum – Review
William Shakespeare’s King Lear – Mill Theatre Dundrum – Review by LAW Directed by : Geoff O’Keeffe September 29th- October 23rd King Lear is a remarkably oft quoted play in our household: […]
Dancing At Lughnasa – Gaiety Theatre – Review – DTF
Dancing at Lughnasa – Oct 6 – 11, Gaiety Theatre – Review Dancing at Lughnasa is set in 1936 in the fictional town of Ballybeg in Donegal during the Lughnasa (or harvest) […]
Lockdown – New Theatre – Review
Lockdown – New Theatre – Review by Frances Winston Written by Gearoid Humphreys Directed by Anthony Fox The New Theatre, 43 East Essex Street, Temple Bar, Dublin 2 – 7.30pm nightly until […]
The Night Alive – Gaiety Theatre – Review – DTF
The Night Alive – Gaiety Theatre – Review Written by Conor McPherson Starring – Adrian Dunbar, Frank Grimes, Laurence Kinlan, Ian Lloyd-Anderson and Kate Stanley Brennan The set comprises a squat-like flat, […]
Oedipus – Abbey Theatre – Review
Oedipus – Abbey Theatre – Review Until Saturday, 31 October 2015 – Showing on the Abbey Stage Running time: 1 hour 40 mins (no interval) The poster for this new production of […]
Dublin Event Guide (05-10-15 – 11-10-15)
I’m nearing physical exhaustion, or a new disease I’m calling play-itis, as the Dublin Theatre Festival enters its final week (until the 11th of October). The death of Brian Friel makes the […]
Duet for One – Viking Theatre – Review
Duet for One by Tom Kempinski at Viking Theatre, Clontarf – Review by P McGovern Tom Kempinski‘s Duet for One is based on the later life of Jacqueline du Pré, the strikingly […]
Interview with Prima Ballerina Natalia Domracheva – Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet – Bord Gais Energy Theatre
Interview with Prima Ballerina Natalia Domracheva – Tchaikovsky Perm State Ballet – Bord Gais Energy Theatre Prima Ballerina Natalia Domracheva returns to the Bord Gais Energy Theatre this November where she will […]
No More Workhorse 