BWW Review: WONDERLAND, Grand Opera House, Belfast
In a contemporary re-imagining of the classic Lewis Carrol tale, Wonderland is Frank Wildhorn's new musical, currently touring venues around the UK until August.
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BWW Review: Waiting Never Felt So Good in WAITING FOR GODOT
“Nothing happens,” thunders Estragon, “nobody comes, nobody goes – it's awful!” We are, of course, in the existential nowhere of Waiting for Godot, Samuel Beckett's modern masterpiece, which flings metaphysical anguish up against slapstick comedy.
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BWW Review: Grieving for the dead in ARLINGTON [A LOVE STORY]
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].
BWW Review: Bursting the Dam of Loneliness in THE WEIR
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.
BWW Review: Consecrating Childhood Confusions in Frank O'Connor's GOD BLESS THE CHILD
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.
BWW Review: HERE COMES THE NIGHT, Lyric Theatre, Apr 2016
Rosemary Jenkinson's new play traces the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the 1916 Rising in Northern Ireland.
BWW Review: SIGNATORIES, Kilmainham Gaol, Apr 2016
Leading Irish writers of today try to get inside the heads of the 1916 rebels.
BWW Review: CASCANDO, Samuel Beckett Theatre, Apr 2016
Pan Pan's production of Samuel Beckett's radio play makes for a beautiful but mysterious promenade.
BWW Review: CYPRUS AVENUE, Peacock Theatre, Feb 2016
The foundations of Ulster Loyalism may be shakier than ever but in David Ireland's dark comedy that doesn't come without its sympathies.
BWW Review: THE WOLF AND PETER, Pavilion Theatre, Nov 2015
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.
SHIBBOLETH - A World Premiere at Dublin's Abbey Theatre
Stacy Gregg's latest play about 'Peace Walls' in Belfast.
BWW Review: GOING SPARE, Theatre Upstairs, Oct 2015
In Siobhán Donnellan's new drama, a visit to a psychic exposes the ways - outlandish or otherwise - we manage the illogical circumstances of death,
BWW Review: A Ceremonious Anniversary of DANCING AT LUGHNASA
In the wake of Brian Friel's death, director Annabelle Comyn's clear production is more than dutiful.
BWW Review: THE LAST HOTEL - We Hope You Enjoy Your Stay
Something strange is suppressed under a polite meeting inside a drab hotel.
BWW Review: I'M YOUR MAN - Lost in Music
THISISPOPBABY's decision to stage Mark Palmer's 12-part song cycle is difficult to fathom.
BWW Review: I'M YOUR MAN, Project Arts Centre, 26 September 2015
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.
BWW Review: THE NIGHT ALIVE - Sweeter than Heaven, Hotter than Hell
A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama.
BWW Review: IT'S MY PARTY CONFERENCE (AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO) - Send In the Clowns
Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful.
BWW Review: SCORE - Pinot Noir, Mid-sized Car
The fictional has-beens of Alan Howley and Jack Cawley resemble anxious players returning to settle old scores.
BWW Review: YOUR OWN MAN/MAD NOTIONS - Finding the Beat of Your Own Drum
Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography.
BWW Review: GHOSTS - Failing to Disappear
Dancers Ruairí Donovan and Asaf Aharonson flit as gentle lovers in this showing up of archaic law.
BWW Review: YOU'RE NOT ALONE - Let Us Go, You and I
Theatre etiquette is dashed in Kim Noble's epic search for companionship.
BWW Review: MX JUSTIN VIVIAN BOND ... And Things of THAT Nature!
To Thomas Bartlett's possessed swoops on the piano, Mx Justin Vivian Bond powerfully sends hexes out into the universe.
BWW Review: BECKETT IN THE CITY - The Women Speak
The new chapter of Company SJ's Beckett in the City series articulates the ramshackle body of the woman in nationalist Ireland.
BWW Review: OBJECT PIGGY - I'm an Extraordinary Machine
If fetishisation of machinery is part of aerial play, Emily Aoibheann's experiment cuts and fuses shapes that show the mechanical taking over.
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