Crosswords & Puzzles
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Leave any doubts about the plot at the door and instead indulge the singalong pleasures of classic songs
Fiddler on the Roof is coming to Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, in a new production by Jordan Fein
Jacqueline Brunton and David O’Reilly star in a production that leans into the campest qualities of Ashman and Menken’s modern fairy tale
Plus: The Nightmare Club by Annie Graves; Taking the Long Way Home by Jake Hope; Our Pebbles by Jarvis; Hidden Treasure by Jessie Burton, and more
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre normally welcomes West End shows. It’s no small task to mount the venue’s first homegrown production, Alan Menken and Howard Ashman’s comedy-horror musical
Theatre: On a hot first night, the cast of this well-oiled touring production has to work hard to win the audience over
Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
Eoin McLaughlin’s Once I Was a Tree gives the natural world its own voice; plus two fun titles from a new Irish publisher
Michael Fentiman’s touring production is deeply thoughtful in its approach to staging CS Lewis’s classic children’s book
Two doors up from the Gaiety Theatre a homeless man is stretched out on the footpath, invisible to theatregoers keen to get to their seats before the curtain call. Inside the ornate Victorian theatre Myra Hennessy holds a similarly supine position on the stage, her head resting on a bag stuffed full of her possessions. “Look me in the eye,” she says as she harangues an imaginary pedestrian who refuses to engage with her request for spare change
The author of the classic children’s stories left Belfast as a boy, but his homeland remained a powerful force in his imagination
Including The Gnome Book by Loes Riphagen, After by Pádraig Kenny and more
Armando Iannucci and Seán Foley’s production of Stanley Kubrick’s political satire leans into broad physical comedy
& Juliet creator David West Read’s TV credits include Schitt’s Creek but his passion for theatre propelled him to rewrite a Shakespeare classic featuring the music of one of pop’s top hit makers
A new stage adaptation of Michael Morpurgo’s beloved novel brings the kinship of boy and beast alive in a triumph of theatrical storytelling
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
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