Raymond Keane

HANSEL AND GRETEL Abbey Theatre, Dublin ★★★☆☆ The Forest Edge Hotel replaces the Grimm fairy tale’s little house, and the children get lost in the Ha(...)

The forecast may not be great for this year’s St Patrick’s Day, but there are lots of events and other attractions, many indoors, to keep you entertai(...)

A year ago, when the snow hit St Patrick’s weekend, among the cancellations was the Big Day Out, a St Patrick’s Festival perennial on Dublin’s Merrion(...)

COMPANY Project Upstairs ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Imagine! A seductive invitation, a quiet command to an audience and we comply. We take a door into the dark, follo(...)

Ulysses Abbey Theatre, Dublin         ★★★ Tucked up in bed with an unsatisfying book, Molly Bloom has trouble(...)

Liz Roche Company Wrongheaded Project Arts Centre, September 11th-16th; iti.ms/2c6ZdZM Who are you? The choreographer Liz Roche, the spoken-word (...)

The True Story of Hansel and Gretel Smock Alley Theatre *** They have covered some distance in their time, the two children of one of the world’s mo(...)

Remember to Breathe Smock Alley Theatre ****   Maeve is on shifting ground. The aftershocks of the Christchurch earthquake c(...)

‘Ah, my boy hair,” Amy Conroy says as she catches sight of herself in one of many mirrors in a Dublin hotel bar. “I forgot about the boy hair.” (...)

Cormac Breatnach has the long, slender fingers of a flute player. He is a tall, mild mannered and soft spoken man; a thoughtful artist with a gentle d(...)