Ruby Eastwood

Ruby Eastwood

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Ruby Eastwood is a journalist and writer

Connie review: The deeply tragic life of an Irish actor who became a Hollywood star

Theatre: Pom Boyd stars in clever, entertaining portrayal of Constance Smith’s extraordinarily novelistic life

Pillow Queens at the NCH: A beautiful performance but the messy, communal ache at the heart of the music is missing

These Pillow Queens songs belong to half-lit bars and the roar of a crowd that knows every word

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan: a family saga, ghost story and social history rolled into one

Debut novel tackles dark times with lightness and compassion

Caligula, at Dublin Theatre Festival, resonates as a meditation on tyranny and resistance

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama

Deaf Republic, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is daring, intricate and, above all, beautiful

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama

Deep Burn by Brendan Mac Evilly: A rural Irish thriller that doubles as an art-world satire

Behind the art-world lampooning lies a portrait of the creative mind

Konstantin, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an intelligent, quick and cracklingly alive take on Chekhov

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This inventive play asks what happens after The Seagull’s gunshot

The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny by Kiran Desai: A novel of tremendous scope and richness

Desai returns to the most radical ambition of novels: making the complexity of other lives shareable

Hair is the only part of the body we can easily and endlessly revise - it grows back

Rare though it is, when we actually achieve it, it makes all the fussing feel worth it

Self Esteem in Dublin review: A masterclass in pacing and performance that leaves the room buzzing

Beneath their bubbly surface, Rebecca Lucy Taylor’s pop songs hide a volcanic emotional terrain

To quit smoking you have to sincerely want to, and I’m not sure I do

I had my first cigarette at 15, for the same reason as most people: because you weren’t supposed to

Hamlet starring actors with Down syndrome: ‘It profoundly reconfigures the meaning of to be or not to be?’

Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin

Last Gig Ever!!, at Dublin Fringe, is less performance than audience endurance test

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: In Last Gig Ever!!, two performers in oversized dark suits thrash around for an hour

Alison Spittle’s show Big, at Dublin Fringe, is harrowing and hilarious

Dublin Fringe Festival review: Spittle is a fearless confessional comic and a great storyteller, as she shows in this bracingly honest account of life in a fat body

Clash at the Quays! II: Lokomania, at Dublin Fringe, is sweaty, sexy and mischievous

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do

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