Commercial theatre is a growing part of the Irish theatre scene.

‘ The PEN Community expresses full solidarity with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family in their never-ending fight for justice. Those who killed Daphne sought to silence her, yet her powerful legacy lives...

Playwright Marina Carr turns 1753 play into a hard-hitting examination of the vulnerability of young women in the matters of romance and seduction

In this richly insightful and often hilarious trip through the glory years and beyond, Lynch (When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World) argues that the determination of the tech bros and their po...

A great theme of the vicious power dynamics between teens isn’t fully explored in this visiting production to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

Former Supreme Court judge Hugh O’Flaherty, who has died aged 88, was best known to the public as one of the Supreme Court judges who adjudicated the X Case in 1992.

Production of David Ireland’s ruthless and outlandish ‘Ulster American’ at the Abbey Theatre is too soft

Community art project telling the story of a medieval woman who was the first person in Ireland to be condemned for witchcraft works a treat

Delightfully inventive contemporary opera score gets a superb premiere at Galway International Arts Festival

The concert set pieces of this stage version of the 1992 Whitney Houston film at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre are beautifully staged but the plot is thin

Word is going round in literary circles that Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, due for publication this month, is a veiled portrait of Natalie Portman. Contents of advance copies are leaking, includ...

‘The Whiteheaded Boy’ at the Abbey Theatre, first produced months after the Easter Rising, gets a spirited feminist pummelling

‘The Kerryman’ at Glass Mask Theatre wonderfully captures the heat of the aged-thirty love-affair

Irish National Opera transport Bellini’s classic into a dystopian setting, but the plot still makes your brain hurt

Break-up two-hander is strong on how relationships can falter without giving details on this actual relationship

Oscar Wilde gets a modern edge in this glossy Gate Theatre production

This spiffy revival of Christina Reid’s 1983 play is well overdue. A working-class Belfast Protestant, Reid was a late developer as a writer but her debut has the sophistication of an old hand.

This new musical from Mick Flannery does not reinvent the wheel. No new ground is broken. But it’s a brilliantly accomplished spin on familiar elements.

To describe Frank McGuinness’s new monologue play as being inspired by the Kincora Boys’ Home scandal of the 1970s would be to locate it in a journalistic realm that feels alien. But the rhyming echo ...

This is a showman’s show. There is nothing digital, no lasers, no projections; it is simply the ingenuity of the human body and mind. The dancers are acrobats, rippling with athleticism. There are 150...

Playwright Billy Roche came to prominence in the late 1980s with his Wexford Trilogy at the Bush Theatre in London. He became the troubadour of small-town Irish life, painting sharply characterised pi...

A cheaply built high-rise apartment with a broken window, flickering electrics and a loudly clanking lift points to one of the update themes: we live in an age of property problems. Writer Rebecca Reid has brought the 1990s hit movie from Colombia Pictures, based on the John Lutz novel, right up to the contemporary moment.

Rusalka is based on the story we would all know as The Little Mermaid by Hans Christian Andersen, though Antonin Dvorák used a Czech version of the folktale for this 1901 work. It tells of a water nym...

This battle-of-the-sexes drama unfolds with an insouciant theatricality and a great sense of fun.

What was designer Jamie Vartan thinking when he decided to represent Sean O’Casey’s magnificent tenement Dublin with such a nasty plywood set? It is visually unpleasant and perplexing in its dramatic ...

Actor Morgan C Jones has created this fascinating solo show out of the lives of his two great granduncles, Abbey actors Arthur Shields and Barry Fitzgerald. The show is an act of reclamation of ancest...

In this world full of chaos and spiralling anxiety, it’s a relief to go to a show where the major creative ambition is to give you a laugh. And that is what Una McKevitt’s new play does. And if credib...

Arthur Miller’s 1953 play is based on the Salem Witch Trials in late 17th-century colonial America. The community of the town in Massachusetts became engulfed in a major persecution frenzy, where youn...

The Gate’s new show for spring is designed for laughs. It’s an American middle-class comedy that pokes liberal pieties in the eye and grapples with a serious controversy: the debate about childhood va...

Reinvented for a more agitated age, this is a provocative adaptation of Harper Lee’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about racism, with Atticus Finch (Richard Coyle) chided for his centrist dad tendencie...

Director Conall Morrison flops into the sofa opposite me in the coffee lounge of the Marine Hotel in Dún Laoghaire.

When you arrive at the National Gallery of Ireland via the Merrion Square entrance, often the first port of call is the Shaw Room which is immediately to your left. One wall is dominated by the vast p...

Any civilised country would sever all interactions with Israel - like the apartheid era boycott of South Africa. However our craven leader baulks even at the insipid occupied territories bill.

We don’t get much from male writers on the subject of miscarriage and perinatal death – it’s an arena mostly left to the women. But men’s perspectives are equally interesting, and this new play from M...