Actor on his favourite New Zealand city, his appreciation of Niall Buggy and dancing at ‘Dreamgirls’

Fishamble stages ‘On Blueberry Hill’ in ‘mansion by the Royal Canal’

And Sebastian Barry delivers a superb prison drama at this year’s Dublin Theatre Festival

The Abbey’s latest production of Sean O’Casey’s Easter Rising drama brings his characters into the light of the present. During the centenary of the event, has it made a familiar play any more illuminating?

Sean O’Casey’s classic play is given a fresh approach, but is that enough to shake off its shadow?

Director Wayne Jordan restores the satirical and human bite to an opera of opulence and economy

Richard Dormer’s Irish-American gangster play orbits around a jukebox, violence and some brutal characters