BWW Reviews: Transgender Lives Brought to Fore in LUCK JUST KISSED YOU HELLO
It's about time transgender characters arrived in the Irish theatre.
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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.
BWW Reviews: Grand Canal Theatre's DIRTY DANCING Will Make you Cheer, Cry and - Yes - Want to Dance
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.
BWW Reviews: WHITE CHRISTMAS Brings Holiday Cheer to Grand Canal Theatre
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.
BWW Reviews: SPAMALOT, A Delightful Antidote
In these heady days of austerity and bank bailouts, it's no surprise Dubliners are looking for a bit of escapist entertainment.
BWW Reviews: John Gabriel Borkman
A bank manager is disgraced in a scandal, spends several years in jail, and then plots a return to glory.
BWW Reviews: Rugby, Recessions, and Ross
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'.
BWW Reviews: DANCE/DANCE - Passion Plays Out on Two Very Different Dance Floors
It was George Bernard Shaw who famously defined dancing as 'the vertical expression of a horizontal desire.
BWW Reviews: Modern MEDEA is a Tragic Treat
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.
