Mikel Murfi

The Guide: Cúirt, Samara Joy, Take That and other events to see, shows to book, and ones to catch before they end

April 20th-April 26th, 2024: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Sat Apr 20 2024 - 05:00

The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey review: Superbly skilled Mikel Murfi pares his one-man confessional to its emotional bone

Theatre: Mikel Murfi writes, directs and stars in the final play in trio that began with The Man in the Woman’s Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice

Fri Apr 19 2024 - 11:32

It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle

Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge

Sat Nov 20 2021 - 06:00

Here’s to Ireland’s unofficial ambassadors flying flags around the world

Celebrating the men and women flying flags for Ireland from Auckland to Rockland, Paris to Belgrade

Sat Mar 14 2020 - 06:00

Not a shamrock in sight: Building a new vision of Ireland in New York

The city’s Irish Arts Center is changing perceptions of Ireland and Irish America

Sat Dec 22 2018 - 05:00

Francis Brennan: On My Culture Radar

The TV personality on his love of Villagers and the Christmas cracker item he can’t live without

Sat Jul 28 2018 - 05:00

Building Enda Walsh’s world: ‘I like the danger of having a blank piece of paper’

Jamie Vartan’s set designs transport audiences – and that’s before the crows move in

Sat Jul 21 2018 - 05:00

Freeing Lolita from Nabokov’s narrative clutches

Dublin Dance Festival 2018 reviews: Junk Ensemble’s ‘Dolores’, Robyn Orlin’s ‘And so you see...’, ‘(b)reaching stillness’, ‘Ion’, Yvonne Rainer and DAI the dancing robot

Tue May 15 2018 - 11:00

Nabokov’s ‘Lolita’: What do we do with the art of monstrous men?

Junk Ensemble’s new production tells the ‘Lolita’ story from the young girl’s perspective

Wed May 09 2018 - 05:06

Best theatre this week: a female perspective on Joyce’s Dubliners

Murfi keeps travelling in The Man in Woman’s Shoes and women in the second World War

Fri Nov 24 2017 - 05:00

Irish adaption of ‘Swan Lake’ among highlights of Clonmel Junction Festival

Music and theatre lovers well catered for with eclectic mix at popular Tipperary event

Thu Jun 29 2017 - 17:52

Culture Shock: Sparks fly in ‘Swan Lake/Loch na hEala’ and ‘These Rooms’

Dublin Theatre Festival is staging thrilling blends of dance and drama by Michael Keegan-Dolan, Anu and CoisCéim

Fri Oct 07 2016 - 15:23

Swan Lake review: humour in the darkness, beauty among the ruin

Dublin Theatre Festival: Mikel Murfi takes multiple roles in Michael Keegan Dolan majestic retelling of the classic story-ballet

Mon Oct 03 2016 - 09:00

Taking a bow for Irish theatre

‘DruidShakespeare’ swept all before it at this year’s Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards

Sat Mar 12 2016 - 05:00

The Poor Little Boy With No Arms review: A bright ensemble and a heart of darkness

Skibberceannaigh has many dark secrets; unearthing them proves trickier than imagined

Mon Feb 01 2016 - 12:21

The Last Hotel review: An opera about rehearsing for death

Death is an assisted act in Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s new opera at the Edinburgh International Festival

Mon Aug 10 2015 - 18:30

Donnacha Dennehy: ‘I thought opera was a ridiculous art form’

Happily, the composer has got over his anxieties, and his second collaboration with Enda Walsh, ‘The Last Hotel’, is shaping up to be a non-stop 80-minute roller coaster ride

Tue Aug 04 2015 - 05:00

Review: Julie Feeney

Feeney, a singular musical talent, is barely present in this new show that is cruelly inattentive to its audience

Fri Apr 03 2015 - 15:20

Fintan O’Toole’s cultural highs and lows of 2014

Lisa Dwan’s series of performances was startling

Sat Dec 27 2014 - 01:00

Do you know the way to Galway International?

The rebranded Galway International Arts Festival is pointedly here, there and everywhere

Mon Jul 21 2014 - 01:00

Review: Ballyturk

Enda Walsh’s new play ruptures the routine of two friends who prop up their reality on a daily basis. It’s also a matter of life and death

Wed Jul 16 2014 - 14:53

‘Wild thing’ and lobsters kick off Galway festival

Galway celebrates two arts festivals in one fortnight

Tue Jul 15 2014 - 01:00

Fantasies in borrowed spaces as Galway Arts Festival opens tonight

Former ‘Connacht Tribune’ printworks is festival’s main gallery venue

Mon Jul 14 2014 - 01:00

Welcome to Ballyturk: darkness, stress and a joker in the pack

Enda Walsh’s intense new play brings together an all-star cast of Cillian Murphy, Stephen Rea and Mikel Murfi. Are they looking forward to being put under ‘tremendous strain’ by Walsh?

Tue Jul 01 2014 - 01:00

Enda Walsh’s Ballyturk: dabbling with mortality in our own private universes

The playwright has created another peculiar world with its own logic in his new piece, in which two friends, played by Cillian Murphy and Mikel Murfi, are abruptly confronted with the concept of death

Sat Jun 21 2014 - 01:00

Film review: Jimmy’s Hall

Life in the Free State was no jape, according to Ken Loach's affecting, beautifully shot but somewhat underpowered drama

Fri May 30 2014 - 00:00

What do a dragon, aliens and a giant red ball have in common?

Galway International Arts Festival announces programme for July event

Wed May 28 2014 - 01:00

Murphy, Murfi, Walsh and Rea: partners in play heading for Galway

Cillian Murphy and Enda Walsh to renew their theatrical partnership

Thu Mar 06 2014 - 01:00

Cheers of a clown

Behind the humour is a ‘search for what is human’, says Lee Delong, who is bringing ‘Night of the Living’ Clown to the Múscailt arts festival in Galway

Sat Feb 08 2014 - 01:00

The best of Irish theatre: this year’s nominees

Announcing the ’Irish Times’ Irish Theatre Awards shortlist for 2013. Terrible financial circumstances did not limit the diversity of productions, from knockout operas to one-man shows

Sat Jan 11 2014 - 13:00

Walking and talking in the shoes of older people

Mikel Murfi takes to the road with one-man show based on the stories of older people

Tue May 07 2013 - 01:00