IRELAND THEATER REVIEWS

Barry McStay's nail-bitingly good play asks timely questions in the wake of the Marriage Equality Referendum. However, politics aren't the extent of its reach....

Louise White's pastoral promenade inside a disused commercial building suggests the possibility of regrowth, drawing on the experiences of The Abbeyleix Bog Project....

Goerge Brant's unsettling play asks questions about the changing state of warfare....

A fictional Irish town becomes victim to a sinister wind-farm plot in Jane Madden's brilliant farce....

Aisling O'Mara and Robbie O'Connor summon two Abbey actors who fought in Easter week 1916....

In this beguiling co-production, junk ensemble and Brokentalkers place confidence in a cast of strangers....

Alice Malseed is exemplifiable of millennials burnt out by their late twenties, their hopes dashed in the bust. What can be made of this world stung into paralysis?...

Jarlath Tivnan's debut play is written in the strokes of black comedy but points to darker truths under the surface in rural Ireland....

Ill-Advised is a rare case in Ireland as a company dedicated to musical theatre. How will they mount Spring Awakening?...

It's about time transgender characters arrived in the Irish theatre. Amy Conroy's new play is a fascinating look at the construction and deconstruction of masculinities....

In WB Yeats's mythic drama, an Old Man and the hero Cuchulainn seek drops of immortality at a magic well. Can they they survive its otherworldly Guardian?...

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....

Tom Lane's audio trail looks at the underground water system that influenced the building of Cork City....

Jimmy McAleavey's new play meditates on the complex legacies of The Troubles in Northern Ireland....

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....

Dancer Emma O'Kane traces her horse-racing history in WillFredd's magical new production....

Condemnation rings from the outset in Yeats's poem 'Sailing to Byzantium'. When we reach the idyllic city in Liz Roche's new dance, will our souls be set free?...

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....

An urban opera about the social impact of the regeneration of St. Teresa's Gardens, a social housing estate in Dublin....

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....

Lust and loneliness crosses species in Noni Stapletone's drama, as a woman goes head-to-head with a Charolais heifer....

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. Following her debut, Boyle became an overnight sensation, releasin...

Dublin's Board Gais Energy Theatre is awash in pink this month with the arrival of Legally Blonde - The Musical....

If the line: 'Nobody puts Baby in a corner' makes you want to cheer, cry, or just get up and dance, then 'Dirty Dancing: The Classic Story on Stage', now playing at Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre, is for you....

If you're looking for a delectable holiday treat - and the rare one that won't pile on the pounds - "Irving Berlin's White Christmas", now playing at Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre, may be just the thing....