Chris McCormack

Contributor

Chris McCormack is a contributor to The Irish Times specialising in culture.

4.48 Psychosis review: Marty Rea gives a riveting performance in Sarah Kane’s final play

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In a staging directed by Tom Creed, the actor makes someone depressingly isolated seem intimately real

Lourdes! The Musical: An impressively complex tale of shame

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Xnthony is a long-time cabaret subversive. Rarely has he been sentimental

‘This is a big achievement for me, to see the audience crying and talking about their parents’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The acclaimed director Mario Banushi on his play Mami, a follow-up to his hit Romance Familiare trilogy

Hard Mouth Show & Tell at Dublin Fringe: A world looking past women with endometriosis

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: In this unsettling work, a male critic only sees what he wants to see

Muster at Dublin Fringe is a swooning play about releasing locked-up male emotion

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Whirling verses reach incandescent finale in this eloquent work

Dead in Here at Dublin Fringe: Gen Z dread looms in admirably sly work

A group of friends escape to a country estate and try to party like it’s 2019

Thérèse at Dublin Fringe: A frictionless tale of Dublin’s declining estates in the 1980s

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Portrait of worried mothers is overly neat, like a conversation where no one disagrees

Soak: The Perfect Man at Dublin Fringe is a sharply comic take on fathers and eldest sons

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Samuel Yakura says something serious while being one of Irish theatre’s great goofballs

The one-person play where you’re handed a script and invited to perform it to a tree

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Theatre designer Dan Daly on bringing Arborlogues from Brooklyn to St Stephen’s Green

Pádraicín review: A sublime tour through Galway, where artists make reality big and messy

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Brú Theatre’s promenade production sends Pádraic Ó Conaire’s characters scattering through the city

The Lost Tapes of Lydia Howell review: A musician lost in the wilderness of writer’s block

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: A shoegaze dream becomes a nightmare in Ray Scannell’s play, in which he also stars

Evanna Lynch: ‘With another set of parents, in another time, I would have been dismissed as mad’

The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival

Tea in a China Cup review: Before Derry Girls, there was Christina Reid’s knockout comedy

Amy Molloy, Mary Moulds, Marie Jones and Katie Tumelty star in Dan Gordon’s revival of the Belfast writer’s first play

Adelphi ’63 review: Irish Beatlemania and the friendships behind it add up to a zippy feelgood comedy

Theatre: Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins play pop superfans in 1960s Dublin

The House Must Win review: Mick Flannery’s gritty musical feels small for the voices within it

Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation

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