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3 out of 5 stars.

Lockdown culture This Beautiful Virtual Village review – drama that rages like a Twitter pile-on
3 out of 5 stars.

Neighbours clash over racism and sexism in the Abbey theatre’s virtual production of Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s highly topical drama

Published: 20 Aug 2020

Lockdown culture Up close and sensational: the best monologues made during lockdown

From love triangles and explosive lust to the bond between mothers and daughters, performers step into the relationships minefield

Published: 7 May 2020

Watergate meets His Girl Friday: Irish news caper The Fall of the Second Republic

A vaudeville thriller set around a Dublin newspaper in 1973 uses knockabout humour to parallel modern-day geopolitics

Published: 25 Feb 2020

3 out of 5 stars.

This Beautiful Village review – sexist graffiti sparks power games
3 out of 5 stars.

Abbey, Dublin
Only those with the most righteous anger will triumph, in this small-town play about wider societal issues.

Published: 7 Sep 2019

4 out of 5 stars.

Citysong review – Dublin shimmers in poetic celebration of the cycle of life
4 out of 5 stars.

A versatile cast and evocative setting bring to life Dylan Coburn Gray’s award-winning script, which follows a taxi driver’s journey through an eclectic Dublin family

Published: 31 May 2019

4 out of 5 stars.

Hamlet/Richard III review – Ruth Negga plays the Prince with priceless precision
4 out of 5 stars.

Yaël Farber’s Hamlet offers freshly minted thrills, while Aaron Monaghan brings demonic glee to the role of Richard III

Published: 7 Oct 2018

Waking the Feminists: the campaign that revolutionised Irish theatre

At Dublin’s Abbey and Gate theatres and beyond, a grassroots movement has put the spotlight on a new wave of female playwrights, directors and other creatives

Published: 5 Jan 2018

Look behind you, Nadine Dorries. No killjoys here

Alex Clark

Try as I might, I could find no trace of leftie snowflakes spoiling the festive spirit

Published: 30 Dec 2017

Published: 30 Dec 2017
Readers' favourite theatre of 2017

From the raw power of David Tennant as Don Juan to a radical critique of US race relations in An Octoroon, our readers pick their top shows of the year

Published: 19 Dec 2017

Irish theatre on the rise: jail confessions and the fight for women's rights

At the Dublin theatre festival, Shakespeare is reunited with his son, Sebastian Barry’s prisoners look back, Ibsen’s Nora lands in a dystopian future and Anu Productions deliver an urgent tale of torture

Published: 3 Oct 2017

Autumn arts preview 2017 Angels and demons: the unmissable theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2017

Hamilton hits London, Bryan Cranston’s news anchor goes berserk, Wayne McGregor turns his DNA into dance, Mae Martin revisits her teen addictions and Toyah Willcox is a time-travelling queen

Published: 12 Sep 2017

3 out of 5 stars.

Anna Karenina review – Lisa Dwan gives uncertain dazzle to Tolstoy
3 out of 5 stars.

Marina Carr and Wayne Jordan’s distillation of the 800-page behemoth conjures impressive set-pieces but wobbles on individual characterisations

Published: 19 Dec 2016

3 out of 5 stars.

Donegal review – Frank McGuinness's ballad for a singing, squabbling family
3 out of 5 stars.

Musician Jackie returns to his manipulative kin in Ireland, but a terrific cast can’t quite make us care about their various resentments

Published: 12 Oct 2016
2 out of 5 stars.

The Remains of Maisie Duggan review – dark, family tale burns itself out
2 out of 5 stars.

Carmel Winters’ familiar story of domestic dysfunction plays to the stereotypes of Irish drama and is never as painfully funny or shocking as it should be

Published: 11 Oct 2016

Stacey Gregg: restless writer whose scripts fizz with tricky questions

Her plays have explored porn, technology and life in her childhood home of Belfast. Stacey Gregg talks about tackling ‘gender fraud’ with the award-winning Scorch and interweaving tales of IVF and abortion in her new work, Choice

Published: 27 Sep 2016
Lisa Dwan: ‘Beckett made these wounds universal’

As her new play No’s Knife, adapted from a number of Samuel Beckett’s prose pieces, opens at the Old Vic, Lisa Dwan talks to Belinda McKeon about the danger of politicising work for your own ends

Published: 17 Sep 2016

Anita Reeves obituary

Vivacious actor who was a favourite of the Dublin stage

Published: 10 Jul 2016
4 out of 5 stars.

The Wake review – response to hidden Irish histories is fuelled by fury
4 out of 5 stars.

Among three sharp leads, Aisling O’Sullivan is riveting as an Irishwoman learning disturbing truths about her home town in this revival of Tom Murphy’s 1998 play

Published: 1 Jul 2016

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