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Dublin riots bubble up in a new play by Eoghan Quinn on the Abbey Theatre's Peacock stage. #review

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Complex history of Ireland, England and Germany in REFUGE, a new play by Deirdre Kinahan #review

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Theatre review: ‘Judy – End of the Rainbow’ is a dazzling tragedy and a cautionary tale

Commercial theatre is a growing part of the Irish theatre scene.

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Malta: No justice for the killing of Daphne Caruana Galizia following shock acquittal — PEN International | Promoting Literature & Defending Freedom of Expression Worldwide

‘ The PEN Community expresses full solidarity with Daphne Caruana Galizia’s family in their never-ending fight for justice. Those who killed Daphne sought to silence her, yet her powerful legacy lives...

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Theatre review: Italian classic comedy ‘Mirandolina’ given a stark Irish underbelly

Playwright Marina Carr turns 1753 play into a hard-hitting examination of the vulnerability of young women in the matters of romance and seduction

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When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World by Declan Lynch, 2026

In this richly insightful and often hilarious trip through the glory years and beyond, Lynch (When Journalism Was the Best Job in the World) argues that the determination of the tech bros and their po...

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Theatre review: Mean Girls aren’t nasty enough to really mean business

A great theme of the vicious power dynamics between teens isn’t fully explored in this visiting production to the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre

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Obituary: Hugh O’Flaherty, former Supreme Court judge best known for role in X Case

Former Supreme Court judge Hugh O’Flaherty, who has died aged 88, was best known to the public as one of the Supreme Court judges who adjudicated the X Case in 1992.

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Matthew Broderick is too low-key in provocative play that lacks star power

Production of David Ireland’s ruthless and outlandish ‘Ulster American’ at the Abbey Theatre is too soft

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The Alice Project at Kilkenny Arts Festival: A tale of witchcraft knitted into the fabric of the city

Community art project telling the story of a medieval woman who was the first person in Ireland to be condemned for witchcraft works a treat

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‘Testament’ review: The greatest story ever told, from the mother’s point of view

Delightfully inventive contemporary opera score gets a superb premiere at Galway International Arts Festival

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‘The Bodyguard, the Musical’ review: Thriller squeezed between songs lacks dramatic space

The concert set pieces of this stage version of the 1992 Whitney Houston film at the Bord Gáis Energy Theatre are beautifully staged but the plot is thin

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From Maud Gonne to Natalie Portman — the wars of words when real life becomes fiction

Word is going round in literary circles that Rachel Cusk’s new novel, Life of M, due for publication this month, is a veiled portrait of Natalie Portman. Contents of advance copies are leaking, includ...

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Irish family farce given a ‘70s reboot is a huge laugh, and simultaneously not one bit funny

‘The Whiteheaded Boy’ at the Abbey Theatre, first produced months after the Easter Rising, gets a spirited feminist pummelling

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Paul Mescal has a rival for the most-winning-culchie-ever in this engaging love match

‘The Kerryman’ at Glass Mask Theatre wonderfully captures the heat of the aged-thirty love-affair

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‘Norma’ review: Climbing this Everest of unbelievable love affairs is worth it for the singing alone

Irish National Opera transport Bellini’s classic into a dystopian setting, but the plot still makes your brain hurt

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‘The Argument of Us’ review: Wonderfully acted and highly stylised play leaves us with more questions than answers

Break-up two-hander is strong on how relationships can falter without giving details on this actual relationship

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‘An Ideal Husband’ review: Decadence writ large in a rich defence of moral bendyness

Oscar Wilde gets a modern edge in this glossy Gate Theatre production

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Even today, it feels like this affectionate comedy revival about sectarianism makes the Belfast audience nervous

This spiffy revival of Christina Reid’s 1983 play is well overdue. A working-class Belfast Protestant, Reid was a late developer as a writer but her debut has the sophistication of an old hand.

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