Ronan Phelan

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters

Erica Murray’s new play drops into the lives of four women connected by unexpected circumstances

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Fionn Foley and Rough Magic’s production is a collaboration of comedic and musical talent

From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th

Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work

Rough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holiday

Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Erica Muray’s second play is well acted and pacily directed, but it tries to do too much

‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern Ireland

Remembering ‘The Simpsons’ as a dark comedy with serious heft, keeping a seasonal Dickens classic warm with cheer, and recalling Cinderella’s origin story

Anne Washburn’s wackily serious play imagines the survivors of a nuclear holocaust struggling to remember Simpsons episodes by the post-apocalyptic campfire

A lavish, pitch-perfect production with a patina of pathos

Two volunteers on a drugs trial begin to have some strange attractions in Lucy Prebble’s love-sceptical play