The Irish Times

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

Wed Nov 27 2019 - 14:30

Abbey Theatre uproar: 300 actors and directors complain to Minister

National theatre’s new policy sees pay ‘fall 25%’ and overall employment ‘dry up’

Mon Jan 07 2019 - 16:16

Ruth Negga as Hamlet: Outsiders are in at the Gate theatre

Gate breaks from its painful recent past with ‘The Snapper’ and an innovative ‘Hamlet’

Mon May 14 2018 - 18:00

Let the Right One In review: black magic combination of tenderness and brutality

The West End hit at the Abbey hovers somewhere between fairy tale and horror story

Fri Nov 24 2017 - 12:58

The pick of this week’s theatre

This week’s theatre highlights all involve stories that need to be heard, and those who are either literally and figuratively deaf to them

Sat Nov 11 2017 - 05:00

Tribes review: How to find a family you belong to

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

Fri Oct 06 2017 - 14:25

‘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

Striking Out review: RTÉ’s new drama all sheen and surface

Amy Huberman and the rest of the cast seem lost in the weird comedy and supposed drama of this show

Mon Jan 02 2017 - 16:53

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

Thu Jul 09 2015 - 09:52

Tributes paid at funeral of mother of Dublin acting family, Daphne Brennan

‘Strumpet City’ actor described as a woman with great love for words and family

Wed Feb 11 2015 - 21:20

Review: Heartbreak House

Written fitfully during the first World War and finally presented to an utterly changed world, Shaw’s experimental play remains tangled and complex. Can the Abbey make sense of it?

Fri Aug 22 2014 - 13:25