A Love Like That review: Wistful drama teeming with myth and legend
Dublin Theatre Festival: Billy Roche’s new play turns modest characters into legends in their own lifetimes
The week's theatre highlights: Glasgow Girls and The Cripple of Inishmaan
Martin McDonagh’s scabrous comedy at the Gaiety; stirring Glasgow Girls musical at the Abbey is timely for more than one reason
The Cripple of Inishmaan review: Outlandish tales and dark distortions
This new production of Martin McDonagh’s comedy is wise not to play it straight
Directing a Martin McDonagh play? It’s the stuff of dreams
The challenge is to honour his writing. When the cast find the rhythm, the work sings
The Mai review: Passionate performances in an unfocused production
Dublin Theatre Festival: Derbhle Crotty is moving as Marina Carr’s family figurehead
A Skull in Connemara review: Rich drama of perverse satisfaction
Decadent Theatre’s production draws out darkness of McDonagh’s Gothic work
Skull two pints in Connemara: this week’s theatre highlights
Pat Shortt stars in the second of Martin McDonagh’s Leenane Trilogy; Roddy Doyle’s barfly banter gets a human face with Liam Carney and Phillip Judge
Two theatre shows to catch in Dublin this week
The Abbey brings the insurgent story of Jimmy Gralton back to the stage for another knees-up
Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying, tumbling, crashing, roaring start
Highlights so far? David Mach, Enda Walsh, Sonya Kelly and Museum of the Moon
Get ready for the Galway International Arts Festival
This year’s festival boasts a full moon, and a garden, theatre, gigs, talks and thoughts
Galway Capital of Culture: first the euphoria, now the questions
First Galway 2020’s creative director quit; now funding questions are being asked
Decadent Theatre company to stage excerpts from hostage drama in Cork Prison
McGuinness play ‘Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me’ is inspired by Brian Keenan’s kidnapping in Beirut
The Weir review: McPherson’s language gets lost in the flow
Careless direction means Decadent’s production never becomes the sum of its parts
Review | Vernon God Little: Decadent’s production gets the caustic humour but trips a little into farce
DBC Pierre’s novel excoriates contemporary America, and this production doesn’t quite keep the anger on the boil
How to be Decadent in a time of hardship for Irish theatre
Andrew Flynn, Decadent Theatre Company’s director, has an unusual ability to combine artistic passion with the deal-clinching pitches of a travelling salesman
Review: Defender of the Faith
Decadent Theatre’s canny revival of Stuart Carolan’s play carries echoes of his TV show Love/Hate
Jason Smyth reclassified due to deterioration of his eye condition
Irish Paralympic sprinter will be able to go for double gold in Rio
Eden
A bleak view of manhood and marriage in an Irish town in which everyone is either locked or lost
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