Removed review: Children on the edge, told with integrity and grit
Dublin Theatre Festival: Fionnuala Kennedy’s play stays true to the experiences of young people in care
A Love Like That review: Wistful drama teeming with myth and legend
Dublin Theatre Festival: Billy Roche’s new play turns modest characters into legends in their own lifetimes
This Beautiful Village: One-note characters addressing a symphony of concerns
Theatre review: Lisa Tierney-Keogh’s middle-class satire is somewhere between Yasmina Reza and Bernard Farrell
Getting Scrapefoot, an immersive Goldilocks art installation, just right
When theatre designer Owen Boss began bringing his children to work, it became a test run for a new project at The Ark
Design and Destroy: Ireland’s entry at the Prague Quadrennial
An expressionistic form-bending film, giving an insight into the process and product of stage design
The Magic Flute review: Riveting music, touching, satisfying performances
Caroline Staunton directs an entertaining, thought-provoking Mozart production for Irish National Opera
A magic night of Mozart: This week’s classical music highlights
Irish National Opera’s The Magic Flute. Plus: Verdi’s Requiem and Camerata Ireland
Prime Cut double bill review: A grim struggle couched in defiant humour
Despite, or perhaps because of, their differences ‘Every Day I wake Up Hopeful’ and ‘East Belfast Boy’ share several attributes
Gig of the Week: The Great Gatsby is one marvellous party
The Gate becomes Gatsby Mansion again in this fluid F Scott Fitzgerald adaptation
Double Cross review: Thomas Kilroy’s chillingly resonant take on nationalism
Ian Toner plays both William Joyce and Brendan Bracken under Jimmy Fay’s direction
The Mai review: Passionate performances in an unfocused production
Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead
Irish Times Theatre Awards: Red gets to paint the town
What do you see? asked the big winner. We’re seeing double and elephants, came the answer
Harassment ‘elephant’ enters the room at theatre awards night
Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards: Mark Rothko drama ‘Red’ is the big winner
Men in pieces: Raw displays of vulnerability
After a year in which three well-known Northern actors took their lives, a three-week programme of events, Edgefest, focuses on male mental health
Beauty and the Beast in Belfast: Bloodless, bland and banal
Undoing Disney was brave but there is no magic in this rock opera alternative
The Great Gatsby at the Gate: a magnificently entertaining, dizzying party
The audience joins in the decadence in the Gate Theatre’s thrillingly immersive production
'Once you step over the threshold, you enter Gatsby’s mansion'
Designed to include members of the audience, the Gate Theatre’s adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s novel begins at the door
Sunder review: In the eye of the Moore Street storm
Anu’s latest performance traces a legacy of violence against civilians, from Moore Street barricades to modern-day terrorism. Will you choose death or glory?
DTF review | The Train: A theatrical manifesto, exuberantly played for laughs
This isn’t the most serious meditation on gender equality, but it’s definitely one of the most charming
Review | Vernon God Little: Decadent’s production gets the caustic humour but trips a little into farce
DBC Pierre’s novel excoriates contemporary America, and this production doesn’t quite keep the anger on the boil
Lally the Scut review: grotesque caricatures abound in an insular Border community
In spite of a fast-moving narrative, the action sometimes feels laboured
Theatre review: God of Carnage
A biting comedy of manners that spirals into a shaming demonstration of bad manners
Review: Neither Either
Liz Roche Company’s latest collaboration with Maiden Voyage Dance takes a tumble with the words of Seamus Heaney
A dance that bears Seamus Heaney’s ‘strain of being in two places at once’
A North-South co-production by Liz Roche and Nicola Curry is inspired by Heaney’s ideas about displacement
Review: Terjas Verdes
The final part in the Mac’s Chilean trilogy makes the horrors of the Pinochet regime resonate much closer to home
Review: Villa/Discurso
Prime Cut’s new staging of a Chilean double-header finds one post-conflict society exploring the memories of another. Are they simpatico?
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