Best theatre this week: a female perspective on Joyce’s DublinersMurfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World WarFri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00
The best theatre shows this week: Let the Right One In opensVampires, voyages and new beginnings on the Irish stageSat Nov 18 2017 - 06:00
Will a Robot Steal My Job? review: Amusement, alarm and appeals for calmAnne-Marie Tomchak brings a reassuringly human touch to this wide-ranging documentaryTue Nov 14 2017 - 15:00
Nowhere Fast: RTÉ’s new midlands comedy gets dark fastNowhere Fast stars Alison Spittle as Angela, a young woman in a downward spiralMon Nov 13 2017 - 22:35
Howards End review: A new team move into EM Forster’s pileForster’s dodgy narration is dumped but the plot remains fully loadedMon Nov 13 2017 - 13:34
The pick of this week’s theatreThis week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to themSat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00
Motherland: accomplished first outing for Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan sitcomWith the parentage of writers Sharon Horgan, Graham Linehan, Helen Linehan and Holly Walsh, Motherland has great comic genesWed Nov 08 2017 - 12:49
The TV show that replaces evil clutter with lovely Ikea stuff'Desperate Houses' is at war with the messy accumulation some of us call ‘life’Tue Nov 07 2017 - 23:01
How to stay married for 50 yearsReview: RTÉ profiles couples held together by unflagging support and comic schtickTue Nov 07 2017 - 12:15
Gig of the Week: Kiasmos at Vicar StreetOpposites attract in the cerebral but keenly felt minimalism of this electronic duoSat Nov 04 2017 - 05:00
A taste of the theatre this weekLooking forwards, looking backwards and looking up – here’s what’s on viewFri Nov 03 2017 - 05:00
What Put the Blood: A troublesome Irish version of Racine’s playIf there really is a special place in hell for women who don’t help each other, Andromaque and Hermione have found itWed Nov 01 2017 - 17:56
Generation What? review: Lots of questions but don’t drop the A bombA sociological survey of European Millennials wants to know all about sex but nothing about what happens afterWed Nov 01 2017 - 14:47
Fab Vinny review: ‘Vincent was so out he could never go back in’In a drab 1980s Ireland, music presenter Vincent Hanley brought back the promise of something more fabulousWed Nov 01 2017 - 12:55
‘Sallynoggin was her Vietnam’ RossOCK says of his motherPostcards From The Ledge review: OMG – are those like actual feelings Ross O'Carroll-Kelly is having?Wed Nov 01 2017 - 11:17
Blue Planet II review: Devastating discoveries every few minutesNothing fazes David Attenborough but for anyone else, Blue Planet II is an inspiring and humbling educationMon Oct 30 2017 - 13:01
Stranger Things 2 review: The boys and girl are back in townThe Duffer Brothers are growing nostalgic even for themselvesFri Oct 27 2017 - 09:28
Theatre highlights for the week aheadJane Austen one-women musical is staged with lashings of sharp wit and loving ironyFri Oct 27 2017 - 05:00
Why Marvel’s Inhumans is such a flopReview: Here are the scrapings from the bottom of the Marvel Cinematic UniverseFri Oct 27 2017 - 05:00
Stranger Things catch up: We turn it back to ElevenAhead of the return of the Netflix hit, here’s how we left things in the town of HawkinsWed Oct 25 2017 - 05:00
‘Gunpowder’: It’s got Kit Harington but no plotTV review: The Guy Fawkes story is simplified and stretched. Sparks do not flyMon Oct 23 2017 - 10:00
From Kafka to Walsh: This week’s theatre highlightsImaginative new spins on old concerns take the stages this weekFri Oct 20 2017 - 05:00
Dr Ciara Kelly: I don’t go round thinking ‘I am a woman’ all the timeBrendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge review: He’s a shrewd interviewer, but this week’s programme gets trivial quicklyThu Oct 19 2017 - 12:29
‘Say Yes to the Dress Ireland’: I don’t think I will actuallyTV review: If only the show went deeper, the family dynamics would be fascinating to watchMon Oct 16 2017 - 21:55
Josephine K and the Algorithms: Kafka gets a modern updateIn Stacey Gregg’s new play, the forces that push us around are creatures of our own creationMon Oct 16 2017 - 21:30
Is the baby still breathing? The riveting, discomfiting ‘Trauma’RTÉ’s fly-on-the-car-crash documentary is a study of composure under pressureFri Oct 13 2017 - 00:08
Rapids review: An artful antidote to the resurgence of HIVThe HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silenceThu Oct 12 2017 - 16:25
War dances and gale forces: This week’s best theatre showsThe Dublin Theatre Festival closes with a swirl of music and dance performancesThu Oct 12 2017 - 05:00
'It’s on, it’s gone. And that’s the glory of it, actually'The renowned designer and frequent Druid collaborator Francis O’Connor onthe subtle art of stage designTue Oct 10 2017 - 05:00
Heroin Town review: Louis Theroux loves misery’s companyMisery is like heroin in Louis Theroux’s new documentary: cheap, plentiful and easily availableSun Oct 08 2017 - 22:00
Snowfall review: Getting high on its own supplyThe first hit of Snowfall goes straight for the glamour. The comedown can’t be far awaySun Oct 08 2017 - 00:00
Tribes review: How to find a family you belong toEverybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious playFri Oct 06 2017 - 14:25
Ulysses review: Joyce’s masterpiece gets a pop-up book treatmentThe sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour gamesThu Oct 05 2017 - 15:30
Vogue Williams, the next Vincent BrowneVogue Williams will say anything to anybody. Who knows what could happen if she turned her attention to politicsWed Oct 04 2017 - 11:27
‘The real Katie Hopkins’ is a howling void with a Hitler haircutTV Review: The loveable Lucy Kennedy tries living with the hateful Katie HopkinsTue Oct 03 2017 - 23:00
Dermot Bannon’s new show has a lot of room to improveReview: The architect’s latest programme, The Big Build, has lots of storeys but little dramaTue Oct 03 2017 - 11:50
‘If you’re from a family of writers, everything is fair game’Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because otherwise you will never write'Tue Oct 03 2017 - 05:00
Melt review: A play that goes to the end of the worldThere’s no other play quite like Rough Magic’s Melt right nowMon Oct 02 2017 - 13:20
The Sin Eaters: Memories from Irish women in our vexed recent historyAnú’s latest show, which takes place in a clinical space, is impressive but not intimateFri Sept 29 2017 - 13:00
Dublin Theatre Festival 2017: Eight of the best showsHere's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeksThu Sept 28 2017 - 05:00
The Deuce: a riveting peep show into the psychology of American capitalismDavid Simon’s brilliantly made new drama about the rise of the US porn industry is not on a mission to titillateTue Sept 26 2017 - 23:30
An 11-year-old boy, alone on a Dublin stage for an hourOllie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’Tue Sept 26 2017 - 05:00
Drop dead quite funny: an Irish zombie comedy for teenagersTV review: RTÉ’s new comedy features Pauline McLynn, fart jokes and undead parentsMon Sept 25 2017 - 19:06
Acceptable Risk review: A show that plays its cards close to its chestAcceptable Risk lays little on the line in this opening episode, but the plot could yet thickenMon Sept 25 2017 - 11:10
Should the Dublin Fringe Festival get back in its box?Culture Shock: The Fringe is getting bigger, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any betterSat Sept 23 2017 - 05:00
What happens to falsely imprisoned people after they are released?Freedom sometimes comes without liberation in new documentary ‘Fallout’Thu Sept 21 2017 - 23:15
Levin and Levin review: A whirlwind history that obscures its strengthsFleeing persecution, the Levin Brothers conceal their sex and identity, and grow into a vaudevillian act that wanders the world. The production might have kept less of its potential hiddenThu Sept 21 2017 - 11:00
The best theatre to see this weekendIt’s the handover period between Dublin festivals this week as the Dublin Fringe Festival begins to wind up and the Dublin Theatre Festival starts to ramp up. Here’s a small selection of the changing stagesThu Sept 21 2017 - 11:00
Triple Threat: has the Fringe lost its ability to shock?When people believe in nothing, they may turn to showbiz, argues Lucy McCormick’s New Testament trash cabaret. But the bigger question is can anything shock us any more?Wed Sept 20 2017 - 11:00
