IRELAND THEATER REVIEWS

Fresh from co-writing the musical play Lazarus with David Bowie, the awards-laden Irish dramatist Enda Walsh presents the world premiere of his latest work: Arlington [a love story]....

Four local men gather in a forgotten pub in a remote part of Ireland and attempt to impress an outsider, a young woman newly-arrived to the area, with their ghost stories, but she delivers a haunting story of loss that devastates them....

On the 50th anniversary of the death of the acclaimed Irish short story writer Frank O'Connor, God Bless the Child fuses three of his works into a largely successful stage adaptation....

Rosemary Jenkinson's new play traces the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the 1916 Rising in Northern Ireland....

Leading Irish writers of today try to get inside the heads of the 1916 rebels....

Pan Pan's production of Samuel Beckett's radio play makes for a beautiful but mysterious promenade....

The foundations of Ulster Loyalism may be shakier than ever but in David Ireland's dark comedy that doesn't come without its sympathies....

Beyond the gate and into the big green meadow, David Bolger's adaptation of Prokofiev's composition shows that it can pay off to take chances on the world outside....

Stacy Gregg's latest play about 'Peace Walls' in Belfast....

In Siobhán Donnellan's new drama, a visit to a psychic exposes the ways - outlandish or otherwise - we manage the illogical circumstances of death,...

In the wake of Brian Friel's death, director Annabelle Comyn's clear production is more than dutiful. In pitting the mythic shapes of the Mundy sisters against the machinery of the industrial age, old Irish symbols are still painfully nostalgic....

Something strange is suppressed under a polite meeting inside a drab hotel. Change and stasis regularly collide in Enda Walsh's drama but transcendence feels possible in Donnacha Dennehy's music...

THISISPOPBABY's decision to stage Mark Palmer's 12-part song cycle is difficult to fathom....

With music/lyrics by Mark Palmer and book/direction by Phillip McMahon, I'm Your Man aims, to quote Palmer's note in the programme, 'to lay bare the plurality of the human psyche'; as one might gather from that, it's not exactly a laugh riot....

A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama. You can't help but see it staged against the current homelessness crisis....

Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful. In this once off performance, she makes a case for the vindication of the artist....

The fictional has-beens of Alan Howley and Jack Cawley resemble anxious players returning to settle old scores....

Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography. Why then is he struggling to break free from his cages?...

Dancers Ruairí Donovan and Asaf Aharonson flit as gentle lovers in this showing up of archaic law....

Theatre etiquette is dashed in Kim Noble's epic search for companionship....

To Thomas Bartlett's possessed swoops on the piano, Mx Justin Vivian Bond powerfully sends hexes out into the universe....

The new chapter of Company SJ's Beckett in the City series articulates the ramshackle body of the woman in nationalist Ireland....

If fetishisation of machinery is part of aerial play, Emily Aoibheann's experiment cuts and fuses shapes that show the mechanical taking over....

Popstar-wannabe Xnthony makes his move for Eurovision 2016. Is he parodying celebrity rise to power or gunning for glory himself?...

Michael Glen Murphy's play returns to the late days of Dublin's Theatre Royal....