IRELAND THEATER REVIEWS

In these heady days of austerity and bank bailouts, it's no surprise Dubliners are looking for a bit of escapist entertainment. And, no, I'm not talking about the Eurovision song contest. Only slightly less campy is the UK tour of Spamalot, playing through May 14th at Dublin's Grand Canal Theatre, ...

A bank manager is disgraced in a scandal, spends several years in jail, and then plots a return to glory. No, this isn't a review for the new Wall Street sequel, or indeed a news item from today's business section. It is the plot of Henrik Ibsen's play John Gabriel Borkman, now playing at Dublin's A...

Think of your most pompous Ivy League frat-boy, then take away any intellectual smarts, add a paunch and an Irish accent and you've got Ross O'Carroll-Kelly, a laddish but lovable bloke whose exploits are currently on display in the new play 'Between Foxrock and a Hard Place'....

It was George Bernard Shaw who famously defined dancing as 'the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.' And indeed everything from classical ballet to hip-hop has presented humanity's most passionate (and most tragic) yearnings more artfully than real life ever could. This week that terpsichore...

For a displaced American drama geek, what could be better than dropping into Dublin's fair city at the very height of theatre season? On my very first day as a Dubliner, I found myself amidst upwards of 600 performances on offer throughout the city as part of the 16th annual Dublin Fringe Festival. ...