Are we ready for Martin McDonagh’s satirical look at sectarian violence?
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- January 18, 2020, 05:00
First Fortnight Festival: National programme includes more than 60 events
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- January 4, 2020, 05:00
Shows include mass physical therapy to theatrical portraits of minds under siege
The best plays to go to in Ireland this week
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- January 18, 2020, 05:00
Ronan Fitzgibbon’s Blackwater Babble and Irene Kelleher’s Gone Full Havisham
Teenage dreams turned to Stardust: This week’s theatre highlight
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- January 11, 2020, 05:00
Gemma Kane’s debut play 48 sees the human side of the 1981 Stardust nightclub fire
Theatre 2020: The best shows to catch in the coming year
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- December 28, 2019, 05:00
Chekhov, McDonagh and O’Casey to be staged, along with newcomers to Irish scene
This week’s best theatre shows suitable for the whole family
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- December 28, 2019, 05:00
Room on the Broom and Buddy the Elf aim to please over the holiday season
A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings: Magic in the mundane
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- December 21, 2019, 05:00
Abbey Theatre play’s spiritual undertones feel appropriate to Christmas time
Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain
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- December 7, 2019, 05:00
Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work
The week’s best plays: Christmas with Orson Welles and stuck in the pub
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- December 7, 2019, 05:00
A ‘radio play within a play’ production; and an annual tradition at the Lyric in Belfast
What’s going on at the Abbey: heated exchanges, impassioned defences and disputed records
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- December 11, 2019, 05:00
Cinderella review: Like being slapped in the face by a rainbow
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- December 11, 2019, 11:45
Plus our reviews of all the best Christmas pantos – and the ones to avoid
‘It’s above you’: How the Gaiety made Aladdin’s magic carpet fly
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- December 10, 2019, 05:00
Meet Daryn Crosbie and the colourful crew behind the Gaiety panto
Drama at Inish review: A fun if frictionless experience
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- November 27, 2019, 14:30
Jonathan Miller, writer and director, dies aged 85
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- November 27, 2019, 12:57
Polymath was also a doctor and a member of the Beyond the Fringe comedy team
Drama at Inish gets the ‘funny fixer’ treatment
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- November 23, 2019, 05:00
Different class and musical sass: This week’s theatre highlights
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- December 14, 2019, 05:00
Well That’s What I Heard explores class divisions; Mamma Mia! explores Abba hits
