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• 31
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Steward of Christendom: RTÉ to stream Gate Theatre presentation: Following two sold out events over the weekend, RTÉ Culture will stream a live...
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• 31
  JAN
  2022

  THE GUARDIAN | FEATURE

  Kae Tempest’s Paradise among finalists for Susan Smith Blackburn prize: Tempest’s National Theatre play, Amanda Wilkin’s Shedding a Skin and...
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• 29
  JAN
  2022

  THE BELFAST TELEGRAPH | FEATURE

  Sondheim musical Into the Woods being performed in NI accents, explains NI Opera Artistic Director Cameron Menzies: A local twist on global hit...
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• 29
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  The North’s story continues to evolve at the Abbey Theatre: The new co-directors of the Abbey Theatre, artistic director Caitríona McLaughlin and...
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• 23
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  INO epic Bajazet is at once exhilarating and exhausting: Irish National Opera continues its reach and status with its latest offering Vivaldi’s...
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• 22
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  Gabriel Byrne: ‘I was on Grafton Street a few weeks ago and I thought, my God, I could be anywhere in America. It’s a mall’: As he returns to the...
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• 22
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Vivaldi opera is bloodthirsty stuff set to a delightful sound: This earthy, sexy production grabs Vivaldi by the funny bone and delivers a...
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• 20
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Gabriel Byrne chats to Marty: Gabriel Byrne chats to Marty about meeting Brendan Behan on the wrong bus...
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• 20
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | REVIEW

  Abbey announce spring season - history, tragedy and a DUP opera: New Abbey Theatre Co-Directors, Artistic Director Caitríona McLaughlin and...
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• 20
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  Abbey Theatre co-directors: ‘We want our artists to have a hand on the steering wheel’ Caitríona McLaughlin and Mark O’Brien on the way forward for...
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• 16
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Gabriel Byrne turns the tables on Tommy Tiernan: "I am a strange person, I'd be difficult to live with, but I’d be ultimately harmless..." In a...
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• 16
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Amy Conroy gives a searing performance in Every Brilliant Thing: It’s not often one leaves a theatre feeling as though the experience has been a...
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• 15
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Audience is part of the show in sensitive exploration of suicide Every Brilliant Thing at the Peacock Theatre, Dublin until January 22, then tours...
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• 14
  JAN
  2022

  THE GUARDIAN | REVIEW

  Every Brilliant Thing review – ode to life’s joys is candid and compassionate: With a jazzy soundtrack and heaps of audience participation, this...
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• 14
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | INTERVIEW

  Bajazet - Irish National Opera present a Vivaldi show-stopper: Opera lovers who enjoyed the high-wire singing in INO's first Vivaldi opera...
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• 13
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Every Brilliant Thing review: A magical, uplifting show. It is hard to imagine anyone not falling for its gentle inclusivity and charm...
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• 11
  JAN
  2022

  THE GALWAY ADVERTISER | FEATURE

  Waterboys’ Steve Wickham at the Town Hall: This ‘music play’ will see Wickham, and actor Karl Quinn, take a light hearted look at life during...
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• 11
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ | FEATURE

  Every Brilliant Thing - RTÉ Arena on a comedy about depression: The internally acclaimed play Every Brilliant Thing is about to get its first Irish...
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• 10
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | REVIEW

  Falling Through the Universe review: Two epiphanies conjoined: Declan Gorman explores his own creative life in parallel with Joyce’s classic The...
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• 09
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | REVIEW

  Consent is argued in Duck Duck Goose, a drama worthy of revival: Duck Duck Goose On-stream: 1st Irish Festival NY, and Draíocht Blanchardstown...
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• 08
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | FEATURE

  Five things for the week ahead: Foghorns in Cork, After Life returns Plus special performances of Brian Friel's Faith Healer open live theatre up...
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• 08
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | OPINION

  Gate Theatre will starve if left to survive on ‘just enough’ funding: The pandemic hit the whole theatre sector badly, but the Gate Theatre in...
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• 07
  JAN
  2022

  RTÉ |

  First Fortnight: Peter Gowen on making plays & finding your voice: During the first two weeks in January, the annual First Fortnight Mental Health...
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• 04
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH EXAMINER | FEATURE

  Everyman cancels two days of panto shows as cast member diagnosed with Covid-19: Ticket holders will not need to contact the theatre to receive...
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• 02
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | OPINION

  Quality rather than quantity sums ups a remarkable year: THE YEAR 2021 in review Part two Looking back on the 36 productions, live and virtual, I...
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• 02
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | FEATURE

  How Broadway ‘devastation’ became an Abbey stage ‘masterpiece’ for Brian Friel: The “humiliation” Brian Friel faced when critics panned his plays...
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• 01
  JAN
  2022

  IRISH INDEPENDENT | OPINION

  Theatre and the pandemic – the show somehow still went on in 2021: Online productions and ambitious festival programmes gave theatre a lifeline...
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• 01
  JAN
  2022

  THE IRISH TIMES | FEATURE

  What’s on in Irish theatre in 2022, from Beckett to Binchy to Sondheim: Something to cater for every taste in range of shows that will be staged...
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