In Howie the Rookie, Tom Vaughan-Lawlor isn’t playing two parts; the brilliance of his performance is that he’s playing every part. Like the speaker of an epic poem, he is the sole figure that unites everything

Mark O’Rowe transforms his two-hander monologue play into an epic one-man performance for Tom Vaughan-Lawlor

Elaine Murphy’s new play presents a girls’ night in marketed as a girls’ night out

Chris Rock: “You know what’s not funny? Thinking about it.”

Why does comedy have to be so difficult?

Lisa Walsh and Dan Reardon in ‘The Lesson’

Education is a waste in Eugene Ionesco’s absurdist parable. What else can it teach us?

From left, Deborah Pearce, Tommy Dillon and Céire O’Donoghue  in Under Pressure

Barrister and relationship author Rachel Fehily puts a crime of passion on the stage

Jeremy Renner (left) in Hansel and Gretel: Witch Hunters

How many ways are there to tell a fairy tale?

Declan Conlon as the whistle-blowing scientist Dr Stockmann

Ibsen’s whistle blower brings us worrying news from Norway via Arthur Miller’s America

Why is it so hard to get rid of all those lionised critical clichés?

New words, a sex change and a Communist twist – what else happens when an Irish play goes abroad?

More articles

Irish Times Culture