Halloween is over, but there’s a couple of interesting sounding festivals in town this week, with the Dublin Burlesque Festival 2014 – Circus Macabre if you want something a bit spicy. If you’re […]
Things To Do In Dublin (3-11-14 – 9-11-14)
The Locked Room – Project Arts Centre – Review
The Locked Room – Project Arts Centre – Review by Conor O’Carroll Set in a white room two strangers wake up and try to make sense of their environment through mime, dance […]
The Crystal Cage – Smock Alley Theatre – Review
The Crystal Cage– Smock Alley Theatre- Review by Julie Melia Ofegus Theatre Company are back with another show for children. ‘The Crystal Cage’ runs until November 2nd in Smock Alley Theatre. As […]
Spectres – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Spectres at Theatre Upstairs – Written by Finbarr Doyle and Jeda de Bri An inn, somewhere near the coast, the proprietor Mrs. Rance (Jennifer Laverty) checks her ledger to see who is […]
Defenders of the Faith – Civic Theatre – Review
Defenders of the Faith at the Civic Theatre runs until November 1st. Set in a farm in Armagh in 1986, Defenders of the Faith is a story of a dysfunctional family heavily […]
Joe Prop – Smock Alley – Review
Joe Prop – Review by Frances Winston Smock Alley Theatre, Exchange Street Lower, Temple Bar, Dublin 8 – Runs 27th October – 1st November – Tickets €15/12/10 Having started as a short […]
Competition – Win Tickets for The Girls of Dublin Town – The Sugar Club
We have two tickets to give away to one lucky winner for The Girls of Dublin at the Sugar Club on Sunday November 2nd. To be in with a chance of winning, […]
Halloween 2014 – National Leprechaun Museum – Review
Halloween 2014 at the National Leprechaun Museum. Entering the National Leprechaun Museum, I really had no idea what to expect. We were ushered into a small waiting room filled with paraphernalia about […]
Things To Do In Dublin (27-10-14 – 2-11-14)
This week is actually Halloween, but it seems to have been around for a while now! I guess it’s getting longer than just a day. The Bram Stoker Festival continues until Monday […]
Othello – Mill Theatre – Review
Shakespeare’s Othello is currently being staged at the Mill Theatre, Dundrum, in an in-house production directed by Geoffrey O’Keeffe. Shakepeare’s Othello is a proud man, renowned in the field of battle. The […]
According To His Need – New Theatre – Review
According To His Need – New Theatre – until Nov 1st. Nick is a young man that has struggled to get the attention of the opposite sex. After a few attempts to […]
Things To Do In Dublin (20-10-14 – 26-10-14)
Another week in Dublin and this week the main event is the Bram Stoker Festival which has events all over the city! There’s the Shapesifter’s ball in IMMA. There is also a […]
No Smoke without Fire – Viking Theatre – Review
No Smoke without Fire – Review by Cormac Fitzgerald Running: October 5th -26th Starring: Mary Murray The smoking ban was put in place in Ireland in 2004. Smokers who once puffed away […]
Competition – Win Tickets for Halloween – National Leprechaun Museum
We have two tickets to give away for Halloween at the National Leprechaun Museum to one lucky winner. All you have to do to win tickets is to mail us at nomoreworkhorse@gmail.com, […]
Mavericks – Theatre Upstairs – Review
Mavericks by Rebecca Grimes & David Farrell The backdrop contains advertising posters including one for the Alley Theatre’s production of A Waiting for Godot and another for Burger Queen. The only prop […]
Mary Massacre – New Theatre – Review
Mary Massacre by Johnny McKnight – Review by Frank L. New Theatre – Oct 13th – Oct 18th @ 7.30pm – Tickets: €12 (€10 conc.) Johnny McKnight is a Scottish playwright, director […]
Patrick Kavanagh: A Life – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review
Patrick Kavanagh: A Life created and performed by PJ Brady Patrick Kavanagh (1904 – 1967) made Monaghan, its stony grey soil and inhabitants, familiar to many who never glimpsed it or had […]
Our Few and Evil Days – Abbey Theatre – Review
Our Few and Evil Days | Abbey Theatre | Sept 26 – Oct 11 A young man arrives at a house and is met by an older couple. It becomes clear that […]
Things To Do In Dublin (13-10-14 – 19-10-14)
The Theatre festival has come to an end for another year, but don’t lose hope! There’s still plenty on around the city. The Stanley Kubrick Season is at the Lighthouse has a […]
In Acting Shakespeare – Interview with James Da Vita
Pemberley Productions & The Lime Tree Theatre present – In Acting Shakespeare – 16 October – Pavilion Theatre, Dun Laoghaire ‘In Acting Shakespeare’ is a superbly engaging one-man show, arriving on tour […]
Book Burning – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Book Burning | Project Arts Centre (Space Upstairs) | Oct 8 – 11 At the centre of the stage stands a trunk. It is a large imposing object in the middle of […]
Jack Charles V The Crown – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Jack Charles V The Crown | Samuel Beckett Theatre | Oct 8 – 12 – Review by Emily Elphinstone One of the most exciting things about the Dublin Theatre Festival is the […]
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Paul Bright’s Confessions of a Justified Sinner | Abbey Theatre, on the Peacock Stage | Oct 7 – 11 In the 1980s, Paul Bright was something of an enfant terrible in Scottish […]
Perhaps all the Dragons – Dublin Theatre Festival Review
Perhaps all the dragons | Smock Alley Theatre | Oct 7 – 11 As you enter the banquet hall in Smock Alley, the strange contraption is revealed. It is a series of […]
Neither Either – Project Arts Centre – 11th – 15th Nov
An interesting looking dance piece that is coming to a theatre near you soon! Neither Either starts its Irish tour later this month, and works its way through nine venues around the […]
Halloween at The National Leprechaun Museum
One of the many events taking place for Halloween is the Samhain event at the National Leprechaun Museum, which runs from Oct 24th to the 1st of Nov. It aims to explore […]
Beautiful Dreamers – Directed by Louise Lowe (ANU) – Limerick
Having just recovered from the wonderful Vargo in the theatre festival this year, there’s some good news on the horizon as Louise Lowe will direct another site specific piece of theatre, this […]
No Idle Day Festival – Young Hearts Run Free – Oct 10th – 12th
There’s a quirky little music and arts festival taking place in Dublin next weekend, that you may not have heard about! It has an impressive list of performers, such as Katie Kim, […]
Things To Do In Dublin (6-10-14 – 12-10-14)
The Dublin Theatre Festival is in its last week, with lots to do around the city. The Stanley Kubrick Season is at the Lighthouse has a few classics this week.There’s also the […]
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