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IActor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Arron Burr  in Hamilton, speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest celebrity to attend the Broadway hit   but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage. (Hamilton LLC via AP) Mike Pence goes to the theatre - and lights up the culture wars all over again
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley

What do we make of US vice-president-elect’s visit to the stage musical Hamilton, and Donald Trump’s Twitter review?

The Nutcracker review: captures the spirit of the season admirably The Nutcracker review: captures the spirit of the season admirably
  • Stage
  • Christie Seaver

Ballet Ireland assuredly deliver the magic and the movement of Tchaikovsky’s perennial favourite

Stage Reviews

Plain truths: Kevin Murphy in Bewley’s Café Theatre’s production of Honest Honest review: time for a profanity-laden lunchbreak, perhaps?
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 17, 2016

Honesty may be the worst possible policy in DC Moore’s acrid comedy, given an engaging production by Bewley’s Cafe Theatre

Inmates out: Andrew Bennett and Mark O’Halloran in The Importance of Nothing The Importance of Nothing review: Oscar Wilde absorbed and radically repurposed
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 16, 2016

Wilde had to be discreet with his double meanings - In Pan Pan’s arch and fractured riff on his life and work, they try to have him both ways

Sarah Harding in Ghost the Musical: “An electric pottery wheel is dutifully rolled on and off, while Unchained Melody plays briefly over some tepid kneading.” Ghost the Musical review: Afterlife love story is dead on arrival
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 9, 2016

Hell is surely enduring yet another lifeless stage musical knockoff of a hit film

Maria de Rudenz Wexford Opera Festival review - handsome and accomplished
  • Stage
  • Michael Dervan
  • November 2, 2016

Gaetano Donizetti’s complicated and gory – and long-overlooked – work gets a fascinating outing

Morgan Crowley as Giordano Bruno (seated) in Roger Doyle’s ‘Heresy’. Photograph: Niall Carson/PA Heresy review: Giordano Bruno’s dramatic journey from monk to martyr
  • Stage
  • Michael Dungan
  • November 1, 2016

Impressive singing from a versatile cast is supported by a recorded Roger Doyle score

The cast “Alice in Wonderland”: for this revival, director Niall Henry pairs Alice (Miriam Needham) with an older version of herself (Hilary Bowen-Walsh), raising all kinds of conceptual ideas Alice in Wonderland review: curious return to the past
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • October 28, 2016

Blue Raincoat takes a nostalgic trip down the rabbit hole of its own history

Interviews and Features

IActor Brandon Victor Dixon, who plays Arron Burr  in Hamilton, speaks from the stage after the curtain call in New York, Friday, Nov. 18, 2016. Vice President-elect Mike Pence is the latest celebrity to attend the Broadway hit   but the first to get a sharp message from a cast member from the stage. (Hamilton LLC via AP) Mike Pence goes to the theatre - and lights up the culture wars all over again
  • Stage
  • Peter Crawley
  • November 21, 2016

What do we make of US vice-president-elect’s visit to the stage musical Hamilton, and Donald Trump’s Twitter review?

Ballet Ireland’s The Nutcracker The Nutcracker review: captures the spirit of the season admirably
  • Stage
  • Christie Seaver
  • November 18, 2016

Ballet Ireland assuredly deliver the magic and the movement of Tchaikovsky’s perennial favourite

Supporters of the Waking The Feminists campaign on the Rosie Hackett bridge in Dublin on Monday. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Waking The Feminists supporters say ‘one more thing’
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • November 16, 2016

To mark first anniversary of Waking The Feminists, Gender equality campaigners add 10 points to debate

“The provision of art, music and literature for young audiences has grown enormously.” Aideen Howard, director of the Ark.  Photograph: Alan Betson The Ark: Theatrical treats, and where to find them
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • November 15, 2016

The Dublin centre has been providing arts for children for more than 20 years

The final public event after a full year of campaigning by Waking the Feminists took place on the Rosie Hackett bridge, in Dublin. Photograph: Dara Mac Dónaill Feminist pressure group holds theatre organisations to account
  • Stage
  • Sara Keating
  • November 14, 2016

Waking the Feminists slate theatre organisations for below-par gender equality record

Madge Herron on the streets of Kentish Town. “Isn’t she wonderful,” a psychiatrist once said of the poet. “It would be a shame to cure her.” Madge Herron: Eccentric and brilliant Irish poet of London’s streets
  • Stage
  • Gerry Moriarty
  • November 12, 2016

The legacy of the Donegal-born poet and performer has been reclaimed in a new book

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