In the Middle of the Fields review: A timeless tale with a #MeToo edge
Premiere staging of Mary Lavin’s story of grief and vulnerability strikes just right note
Drama at Inish review: A fun if frictionless experience
Lennox Robinson’s theatrical satire is comically enhanced in the Abbey’s slapstick-accentuated Christmas production
Tributes to ‘unique and wonderful’ actor Pat Laffan at funeral
Actor and director who appeared in Father Ted remembered as lovable curmudgeon
Assassins review: Enjoyable dark production that occasionally struggles to keep its aim
Musical seems too haunted by JFK’s assassination to be able to properly hold its nerve
A shortcut to immortality: kill the president
With Steven Sondheim’s ‘Assassins’ opening at the Gate, what drives the perpetrators. from Booth to Oswald to Hinckley?
The Chastitute review: A promiscuous play that can’t settle down
It’s hard to know what to make of the sexual politics of John B Keane’s play
Funeral of Fergus Linehan told of kindness and principles
A theatre man who was ‘an appallingly bad actor’ and a dad who loved unconditionally
A Month in the Country review: Getting a grip on some love angles
Turgenev’s play gets a stately pace as Brian Friel smuggles the radical energy of passion into a distinctly Irish word play
The Field review: John B Keane’s subversive streak made safe
This proud anniversary production of a play last staged just four years ago feels more familiar than heritage drama; more rote than the Mass
Review: The Vortex
Noël Coward’s breakthrough play depicts a downward spiral, but Annabelle Comyn’s brave production feels like progress
Arts Council appoints new chair and board members
Sheila Pratschke succeeds Pat Moylan as chair of council
Pride and Prejudice
In this adaptation of Austen’s classic, the young lovers’ encounters lack frisson, but the art of capturing an entire life in a few moments is demonstrated in the supporting roles
The Threepenny Opera
Director Wayne Jordan restores the satirical and human bite to an opera of opulence and economy
Funeral of actor Susan Fitzgerald told of her serenity facing death
Priest recalls an ‘extraordinary’ person
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