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The Snow Queen review: The Helix panto is still the most fun of any in Dublin
At The Snow Queen, at the Helix, be careful where you sit: the pantomime’s kiss cam will be roaming
Moulin Rouge! The Musical review: Thoroughly adult affair is big-budget theatre at its most impressive
At the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, in Dublin, this spectacular take on Baz Luhrmann’s film might turn you into a jukebox-musical fan
Beauty and the Beast review: Gaiety panto knows how to keep young audiences engaged
Theatre: Darryn Crosbie’s annual spectacular is admirably accessible and gorgeous to look at
Children’s fiction: Spooky stories, family fantasies, emotional monsters and a friendless Megalosaurus
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Moulin Rouge! The Musical: ‘Making a movie is a corporate endeavour. Theatre is a family endeavour’
The stage version of Baz Luhrmann’s spectacular film is about to begin a two-month run at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre
Elizabeth Shaw: Belfast-born writer who left Ireland young and found fame in Germany
A new English edition of Shaw’s memoir reveals how she became a household name in Berlin with a children’s classic
Storyteller - The Life of Robert Louis Stevenson: An existence almost as full of incident as his books
Leo Damrosch is less interested in decoding Stevenson’s oeuvre than in tracing his life
Children’s fiction: New and reprinted titles from Mary Murphy, Raymond Briggs, Oscar Wilde and more
A fearless explorer arrives on Earth, postwar childhood tales and classics to bewitch a new generation
Calamity Jane at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre review: High-quality comfort entertainment
Leave any doubts about the plot at the door and instead indulge the singalong pleasures of classic songs
Fiddler on the Roof in Dublin: ‘That it is always relevant and feels extra potent right now is beyond tragic’
Fiddler on the Roof is coming to Dublin's Bord Gáis Energy Theatre, in a new production by Jordan Fein
Little Shop of Horrors review: Bord Gáis Energy Theatre’s first homegrown show is a sure-footed take on the cult musical
Jacqueline Brunton and David O’Reilly star in a production that leans into the campest qualities of Ashman and Menken’s modern fairy tale
Children’s fiction: The Moon Seeker is a wildly original debut and worthy Staróg prize-winner
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
Dublin’s biggest theatre is staging its first production. Will its Little Shop of Horrors pull off a coup?
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
Six in Dublin review: Henry VIII’s wives are recast as pop princesses. One above all deserves the crown
Theatre: On a hot first night, the cast of this well-oiled touring production has to work hard to win the audience over
‘The Tudor von Trapps, the Royalling Stones’: How Six, the smash hit musical about Henry VIII’s wives, was born
Six is less the staging of a traditional historical musical than an indoctrination into the cult of the superfan
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