Ronan Phelan

The Loved Ones review: Complex, uncomfortable stories brought to life in a refreshing, deceptively simple way

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters

Tue Oct 03 2023 - 11:17

Dublin Theatre Festival: ‘How many times do you think your heart can break?’: The Loved Ones review

Erica Murray’s new play drops into the lives of four women connected by unexpected circumstances

Thu Sept 28 2023 - 05:30

Tonic: The utopia of 2021, revisited with the Amazing Calibri Triplet Family Band

Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Fionn Foley and Rough Magic’s production is a collaboration of comedic and musical talent

Tue Sept 14 2021 - 12:30

Kilkenny Arts Festival mixes risk and safe-bets in search of magical chance

From Rough Magic’s Tonic to Mozart’s Requiem, the festival starts August 6th

Tue Jul 06 2021 - 05:00

Irish theatre in 2019: A dramatic year that left the future uncertain

Theatre in Ireland this year was bookended by two crises, a state of play mirrored by the work

Sat Dec 07 2019 - 05:00

Much Ado about Nothing review: Booze, subversion and anxiety

Rough Magic’s outdoor Kilkenny staging imagines a wildly out-of-hand holiday

Wed Aug 14 2019 - 12:52

The week’s best theatre: A week of debauchery, chicanery and mayhem

Rough Magic brings Much Ado About Nothing to Kilkenny Arts Festival while Asylum Productions visits Callan’s dark history in The Big Chapel X

Sat Aug 10 2019 - 00:01

Rough Magic theatre, 35 years on: ‘Dublin in those days was so bohemian’

Company reflects on decades of casting spells and pushing the envelope with its productions

Sat Jul 27 2019 - 05:00

All Mod Cons review: A swirl of issues crowd out the heart of an overworked play

Erica Muray’s second play is well acted and pacily directed, but it tries to do too much

Mon May 27 2019 - 09:30

Back to the future: Rough Magic’s Joyce adaptation is our theatre highlight

‘Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man’ features iconography of a modern Ireland

Sat Oct 27 2018 - 05:00

The best theatre shows of the week

Remembering ‘The Simpsons’ as a dark comedy with serious heft, keeping a seasonal Dickens classic warm with cheer, and recalling Cinderella’s origin story

Fri Dec 08 2017 - 05:00

Mr Burns review: Rebuilding humanity, one Simpsons episode at a time

Anne Washburn’s wackily serious play imagines the survivors of a nuclear holocaust struggling to remember Simpsons episodes by the post-apocalyptic campfire

Thu Dec 07 2017 - 14:49