BWW Review: DOUZE - A Most Rare Euro Vision
Popstar-wannabe Xnthony makes his move for Eurovision 2016.
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BWW Review: THE AULD FELLA - Faded Royalty of a Legendary Playhouse
Michael Glen Murphy's play returns to the late days of Dublin's Theatre Royal.
BWW Review: OUR ISLAND - Meeting the Parents of Post-Referendum Ireland
Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum.
BWW Review: MOTHER YOU - A Vision of Serenity From the Midlands
Louise White's pastoral promenade inside a disused commercial building suggests the possibility of regrowth, drawing on the experiences of The Abbeyleix Bog Project.
BWW Review: GROUNDED - Worshipping the Sky
Goerge Brant's unsettling play asks questions about the changing state of warfare.
BWW Review: THE WINDSTEALERS - The Bust in a Gust
A fictional Irish town becomes victim to a sinister wind-farm plot in Jane Madden's brilliant farce.
BWW Review: REBEL REBEL - Rising Actors On a Bigger Stage
Aisling O'Mara and Robbie O'Connor summon two Abbey actors who fought in Easter week 1916.
BWW Review: IT FOLDS - Old Horse Town
In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers.
BWW Review: JELLYFISH - Pulsating Through a Sea of Troubles
Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust.
BWW Review: Millennial Malaise in THE PLEASURE GROUND
Jarlath Tivnan's debut play is written in the strokes of black comedy but points to darker truths under the surface in rural Ireland.
BWW Reviews: SPRING AWAKENING Brings Purple Summer to Dublin
Ill-Advised is a rare case in Ireland as a company dedicated to musical theatre.
BWW Reviews: Transgender Lives Brought to Fore in LUCK JUST KISSED YOU HELLO
It's about time transgender characters arrived in the Irish theatre.
BWW Reviews: Yeatsian Magic Bubbles AT THE HAWK'S WELL
In WB Yeats's mythic drama, an Old Man and the hero Cuchulainn seek drops of immortality at a magic well.
BWW Reviews: Midsummer Magic Dashed at FRIARS WALK
With encouragement by an 'Intersections' funding award from the local university, a group of artists recount the tale of two Irish friars who left for Jerusalem in 1323.
BWW Reviews: HIDDEN CURRENTS at Cork Midsummer Festival
Tom Lane's audio trail looks at the underground water system that influenced the building of Cork City.
BWW Reviews: New Abbey Play Offers Complex Legacies of The Troubles
Jimmy McAleavey's new play meditates on the complex legacies of The Troubles in Northern Ireland.
BWW Reviews: Yeats Revived in SAINTS & SINNERS
It's worth welcoming the return of Yeats's three plays, revived by Mouth on Fire, in a theatre scene where his work has gone mostly unproduced for two decades.
BWW Reviews: JOCKEY Spellbindingly Gives Shape to the Racing World
Dancer Emma O'Kane traces her horse-racing history in WillFredd's magical new production.
BWW Reviews: Condemnation and Escape Encased in Liz Roche's BASTARD AMBER
Condemnation rings from the outset in Yeats's poem 'Sailing to Byzantium'.
BWW Reviews: Rough Magic's New Play FAMISHED
In Hilary Fannin's new play, two lovers cast us back to their intense romance in an era locked in the jaws of the Celtic Tiger.
BWW Reviews: Urban Opera Sings About Disintegrating Housing Estate
An urban opera about the social impact of the regeneration of St.
BWW Reviews: Storytellers Converge on Moth & Butterfly
There are tales of partying with Steven Berkoff and attempting Indiana Jones-style escapes as the opening weekend of the rejuvenated Galway Theatre Festival comes to a close.
BWW Reviews: CHAROLAIS Grazes on Great Drama
Lust and loneliness crosses species in Noni Stapletone's drama, as a woman goes head-to-head with a Charolais heifer.
BWW Reviews: I Dreamed a Dream: The Susan Boyle Musical is Inspiring, Honest, Human
If you aren't familiar with the story of Susan Boyle - the middle-aged Scot who, in 2009, stunned the Britain's Got Talent judges with her powerful singing voice - well, you may have been living under a rock for the past three years.
BWW Reviews: Legally Blonde is Frothy (Pre-Recession) Fun
Dublin's Board Gais Energy Theatre is awash in pink this month with the arrival of Legally Blonde - The Musical.
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Mná na hÉireann Ambassador Theatre (10/14-10/16) |
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Reuben Solo: Someone In This Crowd Will Betray Me The Sugar Club (9/03-9/03) |
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Donovan – The Tale of the Gael The Everyman (7/11-7/11) |
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Cana Talks: Optimal Horizons Opium (10/08-10/08) |
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Murder Trial Tonight V - Death in the Family 3Olympia Theatre (3/08-3/08) |
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The Other Side Of Murder Gaiety Theatre (10/13-10/17) |
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Steve Steinman''s Bat! Bat Out of Hell 50th Anniversary Tour 3Olympia Theatre (10/20-10/20) |
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United We Stand Live - Andy Cole & Andy Mitten Cyprus Avenue (8/10-8/10) |
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Cú Chulainn By Éadaoin O’Donoghue and John O’Brien The Everyman (8/13-8/13) |
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Twelve Angry Men Bord Gais Energy Theatre (2/09-2/13) |