Stage Reviews
Endgame review: Druid’s exquisite production brings a lightness of step to Beckett’s indestructible tragicomedy
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: Garry Hynes directs Rory Nolan, Aaron Monaghan, Marie Mullen and Bosco Hogan
Reunion review: Zinger of a play doesn’t flag for a second
Galway International Arts Festival 2024: With an ensemble of excellent actors, Mark O’Rowe’s new ensemble piece is a joy
Real Life review: a thoroughly unique, ambitious and lively show
Theatre: There is not much of a narrative to this show, but that’s the point. The audience is kept on their toes by an animated and engaging cast
Boyfriends review: A tender and witty look at the lives of young gay men
Theatre: Littered with pop culture, silly couch sex and dancing, Ultan Pringle’s script also tackles big themes
2:22 – A Ghost Story review: Thoroughly entertaining night of psychological dread and heart-stopping shocks
Theatre: Shona McGarty, Jay McGuiness, Colin O’Donoghue and Laura Whitmore bat their lines with jittery appeal
The Sugar Wife review: Siobhán Cullen and Chris Walley star in elegant revival of drama loaded with moral quandaries
Annabelle Comyn stages professional rendering of well-made play in which affluent Dublin couple are challenged by arrival of two visitors
Tempesta review: Stephanie Dufresne and Naoise Dunbar shine in Deirdre Kinahan’s moving play
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: A play of such dimensions could repay a few more than these 75 minutes, especially with so much gorgeous writing to savour
Theatre for One: This Ireland review – Brilliant, totally immersive one-to-one plays
Cork Midsummer Festival 2024: The brilliance of these 12 five-minute plays lies in their containment
The Summer I Robbed a Bank review: A riot of inspired fun as David O’Doherty’s children’s book becomes stage show
Theatre: creative and innovative display of stagecraft using video and lighting with glee that enchants audience
Circle Mirror Transformation: Wonderful presentation of the before and after of theatre at the Gate
Theatre: Róisín McBrinn has created a magnificent Irish production of Annie Baker’s sublime play
Dublin Dance Festival 2024 week two: Reviews of Carcaça, Impasse, My Body of Coming Forth by Day, Bench #3, This Is It and Night Dances
Theatre: Productions by Marco da Silva Ferreira, Mufutau Yusuf, Olivier Dubois, CoisCéim, Luke Murphy, Amir Sabra, Laura Murphy and Emma Martin/United Fall
The Pillowman review: Martin McDonagh’s early play gets a pin-sharp, meticulously controlled staging from Lyric and Prime Cut
Theatre: Emma Jordan directs a well-balanced ensemble cast in the playwright’s depiction of a writer suspected of child murder in a totalitarian state
La Traviata review: Irish National Opera’s season closer features strong singing, but the storytelling doesn’t always work
In Olivia Fuch’s production, conducted by Killian Farrell, Amanda Woodbury, as Violetta, meets every challenge of Verdi’s score with strength and colour
Dublin Dance Festival 2024 week one: Reviews of Cellule, Blkdog and 13 Tongues
For its 20th iteration, the festival has programmed a line-up that includes work by Botis Seva, Nach and, for its opening show, Cloud Gate Dance Theatre
Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party review: Subversive chill brings unsettling edge to what seems to be a play about love
Theatre: Liam McCarthy’s decades-spanning new play portrays what might or might not have happened at a house party in Limerick in 1983
Tom Moran Is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar review: Vulnerable exploration of a journey from self-hatred to self-fulfilment
Theatre: More than any other factor, the catharsis he is seeking onstage is an attempt to process trauma that he feels stems from an insecure attachment at home
The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
L’Olimpiade review: Irish National Opera’s touring coproduction with the Royal Opera House feels surprisingly full-scale
Theatre: Meili Li, Rachel Redmond, Gemma Ní Bhriain, Alexandra Urquiola and Sarah Richmond star in Daisy Evans’s staging of Vivaldi’s opera
The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey review: Superbly skilled Mikel Murfi pares his one-man confessional to its emotional bone
Theatre: Mikel Murfi writes, directs and stars in the final play in trio that began with The Man in the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice
Children of the Sun review: Rough Magic shakes up Gorky with humour, style and sheer chutzpah
Theatre: Purists may grind away a tooth or two, but Hilary Fannin’s adaptation will leave few audience members bored
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