BWW Review: THE PATIENT GLORIA at The Abbey Theatre
Writer and actress Gina Moxley stumbled upon the 1965 film Three Approaches to Psychotherapy (aka The Gloria Films) whilst residing in New York City.
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BWW Review: BRENDAN GALILEO FOR EUROPE at Bewley's Café Theatre
Strap yourself in for a high octane ride from the mini metropolis of Prospect, Galway to the bright lights of the Eurovision Song Contest and back again with Fionn Foley's uproarious one-man farce.
BWW Review: FRNKNSTN at The Abbey Theatre
Writer Michael West artfully distills the dark essence of Mary Shelley's classic into a fateful 70 minutes, gratifying literary scholars and beguiling newcomers.
BWW Review: The Abbey Theatre is JIMMY'S HALL
Jimmy's Hall is based on the true story of a tin barn built on a farm in Leitrim by Jimmy Gralton in the 1920s.
BWW Review: COME ON HOME feels the pulse of Ireland at The Abbey Theatre
Come on Home is a quintessentially Irish tale exploring the fragile yet resilient bonds of family against a backdrop of sexual intolerance, rejection and regret.
BWW Review: Upholstering and Redecorating The FURNITURE
'Furniture is not sentimental,' offers George, despairing at his difficulty in bequeathing his beloved chaise longue to a willing beneficiary, near the close of Sonya Kelly's scintillating new play Furniture.
BWW Review: Searching for Sanctuary in SHELTER
Cristín Kehoe's Shelter attempts to negotiate the knotty relationship between Ireland's turbulent past and uneasy present.
BWW Review: ULYSSES Reincarnates at the Abbey Theatre
On Thursday, June 16th, 1904 a young man and his new belle spent their first day together wandering the streets of Dublin.
BWW Review: THE REHEARSAL, PLAYING THE DANE at The Abbey Theatre
Pan Pan Theatre Company presents the 10th incarnation of The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane since its premiere at the Dublin Theatre Festival in 2010.
BWW Review: Stages of loss in GRIEF IS THE THING WITH FEATHERS at The Black Box Theatre, Galway
“'Moving on' is for stupid people,” insists the haunted, just-bereaved Dad (Cillian Murphy) in the world premiere of Grief is the Thing with Feathers, Enda Walsh's ambitions, striking, but unsatisfactory stage adaptation of Max Porter's 2016 novel.
BWW Review: LET THE RIGHT ONE IN at THE ABBEY THEATRE
This much hyped and widely advertised production incorporated a lot of elements and took a lot of risks, while some worked not all panned out, leaving the play inconsistent in tone and style.
BWW Review: THE GRIMM TALE OF CINDERELLA at SMOCK ALLEY THEATRE
It's a tale as old as time, or certainly as old as any fairy tale, but Smock Alley Theatre's production The Grimm Tale of Cinderella manages to put a fresh spin on an old reliable, masterfully knowing where to pay homage to sanctified tradition and where to shake things up, so to speak.
BWW Review: Longing for an heir to the throne in KING OF THE CASTLE
A stark exploration of inheritance, home, and the legacy of Ireland's post-Famine mindset, Eugene McCabe's unsettling, overlooked King of the Castle is imaginatively revived in Druid Theatre's production.
BWW Review: Decadent Distills An Explosive PUMPGIRL
With sparkling assurance, Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl splices comedy and tragedy.
BWW Review: Surviving The CRESTFALL
In a dystopian landscape charged with searing verbal aggression, sustained horror, and gratuitous violence, Crestfall unfolds on the day when the lives of Olive, Alison, and Tilly fatefully intersect.
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.
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.
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David Nihill: Taking Tangents The Everyman (10/03-10/03) |
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Steve Steinman''s Fuel Injected Magic: 50th Anniversary Concert 3Olympia Theatre (10/20-10/20) |
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Cana Talks: Optimal Horizons Opium (10/08-10/08) |
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Twelve Angry Men Bord Gais Energy Theatre (2/09-2/13) |
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TEMPLE BAR THE MUSICAL Smock Alley Dublin Municipal Theatre (8/27-8/29) |
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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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Murder Trial Tonight V - Death in the Family 3Olympia Theatre (3/08-3/08) |
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An Evening with the Legendary Mr Pussy and Friends The Everyman (9/19-9/19) |
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Dirty Dancing - The Classic Story On Stage Bord Gais Energy Theatre (3/02-3/13) |
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Heathers the Musical Bord Gais Energy Theatre (11/17-11/21) |