Return Engagement Dublin: The Peacock Theatre February 21 – March 31, 2001 Beautifully written domestic drama from Paul Mercier, whose…
Harvey O'Brien
Despite great theatrical monologues from Irish dramatists including Beckett and Friel, new voices in Irish theatre are inevitably finding themselves…
It begins with murder and ends in damnation: Mozart’s rather bleak follow up to The Marriage of Figaro, and is,…
Big Maggie is a compelling vision of the Irish mother as sociopath. Maggie Polpin (Marie Mullen) is a just widowed…
1900 is an interesting evening’s theatre. I hesitate to call it a play because even its creator does not. Novecento,…
Dublin, 1926: the skeptical representation of the 1916 rebellion in The Plough and the Stars has provoked riots. The grieving…
Mazeppa by Pytor Iliych Tchaikovsky Opera Ireland The Gaiety Theatre, Dublin Conductor: Alexander Anissimov Directed by: Dieter Kaegi Featuring: Valeri…
Frank McGuiness has given a slight Irish twist to his strident adaptation of Spanish author Ram�n Mar�a del Valle-Incl�n’s notoriously…
Constance Wilde was the wife of Oscar and mother of his two children. She died more or less unnoticed by…
Paul Rudd and Calista Flockhart in the Showtime production of "Bash" "Atrocity is ‘the new black’," says filmmaker and playwright…