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Baoite: Eoin Ó Dubhghaill and Diarmuid De Faoite in Darach Mac Con Iomaire’s play

Baoite review: Boring deep into the bedrock of a bitterly divided family

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 21, 2019, 16:00

A fracking vessel that threatens a fishing community becomes a potent metaphor

Director Caitríona McLaughlin and writer Dylan Coburn Gray: ‘I’m always struck by how many people say the city comes through in the play,’ says Coburn Gray. Photograph: Nick Bradshaw for The Irish Times

Citysong: Epic drama that gets deep into the Dublin groove

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 22, 2019, 05:00

The past is always present in the award-winning new play by Dylan Coburn Gray. Told in verse, it’s like a record of the modern city in which the needle jumps around

Abbey Theatre: A large meeting of the letter’s signatories was held at the weekend where frustration was expressed at the slow progress of talks. Photograph: Dara Mac Donaill / The Irish Times

Theatre workers write to Minister again, frustrated by slow Abbey progress

Stage
Deirdre Falvey
May 20, 2019, 06:00

‘We have no confidence that our concerns are a priority for the current management’

Amy Molloy: “We’re all on the same page with the world we’re creating and the story we’re wanting to tell”

Cotton Fingers has its Irish debut: ‘Here is a young woman and her circumstances’

Stage
Jane Coyle
May 20, 2019, 05:00

Amy Molloy stars in the Welsh play about an unwanted pregnancy in Northern Ireland

Citysong

The past is always present: This week’s theatre highlights

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 18, 2019, 05:00

Dylan Coburn Gray’s Citysong, and Ann Blake’s Morning After the Life Before

The Glass Menagerie

Faded Southern belles and pumped-up kicks: this week’s theatre highlights

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 11, 2019, 05:00

The revival of Tennessee Williams’s 1944 family drama The Glass Menagerie seems smaller than life, but Abbie Spallen’s 2006 monologue play Pumpgirl has a full tank of wit

The King and I runs at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre at the end of the month.

Bartlett Sher: Brexit will hang over the plot of The King and I

Stage
Sara Keating
May 11, 2019, 05:00

How do you approach work that dances so dangerously with ideas of political correctness?

‘We’re not condoning this behaviour’: Leonardo DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort in Martin Scorsese’s film The Wolf of Wall Street

Immersive Wolf of Wall Street to bring outrageous behaviour to secret location

Stage
Chris Wiegand
May 8, 2019, 10:16

Audiences will choose to be crooked traders or FBI agents in Jordan Belfort play

The Glass Menagerie, directed at the Gate Theatre in Dublin by Tom Cairns

The Glass Menagerie review: A handsome but muted new production

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 2, 2019, 13:41

The Gate’s staging tones down the wilder curlicues of Tennessee Williams’s play

Trad: Clare Barrett, Emmet Kirwan and Seamus O’Rourke in Aaron Monaghan’s production at the Abbey

Trad review: Father and 100-year-old son, locked in a torturous relationship

Stage
Peter Crawley
May 1, 2019, 16:05

Livin’ Dred seems dutiful to rather than inspired by Mark Doherty’s comic look at stifling tradition

TheatreClub: It Was Easy (in the End) at the Abbey Theatre

It Was Easy (in the End) review: Capitalism is the root of all evil in TheatreClub’s new show

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 30, 2019, 15:21

Slavoj Zizek said it is easier to imagine the end of the world than of capitalism. It’s often easier to imagine the end of capitalism than of this play

Gene Rooney and Charlie Bonner in Bread Not Profits. Photograph: Caleb Purcell

Bread Not Profits review: a play that touches the soul

Stage
Mary Coll
April 27, 2019, 16:14

The focus on the personal makes Mike Finn's intimate new play work so well

Trad and Tintown: the best of this week’s theatre

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 27, 2019, 05:00

Emmet Kirwan stars in the revival of Mark Doherty’s 2004 play; Tintown explores how idealism can be corrupted by thirst for blood and illiberalism

That they meet is a matter of convenience, but the two women will soon have something unsettling in common

Spotless review: characters in suburban thriller are defined by what divides them

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 18, 2019, 10:05

In Gary Duggan’s play everyone has a partner in this world, whether known or not

Ulster American: An escalating farce.

Filthy minds: The best theatre shows this week

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 20, 2019, 05:00

Dublin plays host to Ulster American in the Abbey and Spotless in Smock Alley

Photograph: Mihaela Bodlovic

Ulster American review: Exasperations, ultimatums and wearying repetition

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 10, 2019, 16:30

The trouble with polemicists, in David Ireland’s satire, is that they might mean what they say

Actor Barry McGovern: he long resisted the label of “Beckettian actor”, but over the years has stopped protesting. “Now I just accept it graciously”

From dying in the mud of Game of Thrones to the whatness of existence

Stage
Peter Crawley
April 9, 2019, 05:00

Barry McGovern’s solo-show adaptation of Samuel Beckett’s Watt is returning to the stage

A play so dependent on dramatic cliche will be a great success. Photograph: Caleb Purcell

Light A Penny Candle review: Binchy deserves better, but it will be a success

Stage
Mary Leland
April 18, 2019, 12:37

Why out of all the Binchy books did Breda Cash Productions walk into this one?

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