POOR – Gate Theatre – Review Part of the Dublin Theatre Festival Dates: 26th Sept – 2nd Nov Gate Theatre and Belgrade Theatre, Coventry – POOR by Katriona O’Sullivan, adapted by Sonya […]| No More Workhorse
The Boy – Abbey Theatre – Review by Brian Merriman Part of the Dublin Theatre Festival The Boy – Written by Marina Carr Directed by Caitriona Mc Laughlin Runs until November 1st […]| No More Workhorse
Almost Home – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L. Almost Home – written by Barry McKinley Dates: September 29th – October 18th, 2025 The backdrop to the stage is a […]| No More Workhorse
Honestly – The Space – Review by Hugh Maguire Dates: 24 Sep – 28 Sep With a ‘West End’ dominated by the glitzy world of Disney – and associated exorbitant costs, one […]| No More Workhorse
Macbeth – Gaiety Theatre – Review Druid’s production of William Shakespeare’s ‘Macbeth’ – Part of the Dublin Theatre Festival Dates – 25 Sep–5 Oct Photos by Ros Kavanagh This production is by […]| No More Workhorse
The Sound Inside – Pavilion Theatre – Review The Sound Inside by Adam Rapp Pavilion Theatre presents a Pádraig Cusack & Half Moon Street Ltd production in association with the Royal…| No More Workhorse
One of the best things about London theatre is that once in a while a show will give its understudies a chance to break out of the dressing room and soar on the stage. It's a chance to see talented performers at a discount price. What's not to like? Lucy Donnelly and Mark Sean-Byrne are both flawless. His slouched frustration plays against her manic dream pixie self-loathing. The stage is…| Terence Eden’s Blog
Hamlet – Dublin Theatre Festival – Review TEATRO LA PLAZA – HAMLET – BASED ON THE PLAY BY WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE, ADAPTED BY CHELA DE FERRARI Duration: 1 hr 35 mins, no interval […]| No More Workhorse
Here and Now – The Steps Musical – Bord Gáis Energy Theatre – Review by Brian Merriman 23 September – 04 October 2025 Written by Shaun Kitchener Directed by Rachel Kavanaugh Sometimes […]| No More Workhorse
Seven Ages of Mam – Viking Theatre – Review by Frank L Seven Ages of Mam – written by Mark Evans and Pauline O’Driscoll Helpfully, the programme note sets out an extract […]| No More Workhorse
Shredder – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Shredder – David McGovern Performances – 16 Sept, 21:15 (preview), 17 – 20 Sept, 21:15, 20 Sept, 15:45 Shredder written and …| No More Workhorse
Amsterdam – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Frank L AMSTERDAM – Made Up Productions Co-presented by Dublin Fringe Festival & Glass Mask Theatre Performances – 12 Sept…| No More Workhorse
Variations for Two Disabled Bodies – Project Arts Centre – Review by Bobbi Byrne & Soso Ní Cheallaigh Performances 10 Sept, 18:30 (preview), 11 – 13 Sept, 18:30 Venue – …| No More Workhorse
Reverb – Civic Theatre – Review REVERB – Luail – Co-presented by Civic Theatre & Dublin Fringe Festival The Dublin Fringe Festival was in the suburbs on Thursday night, …| No More Workhorse
Apocalypse HOW? – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Brian Merriman Presented by Doomslayers: Annie Queeries, Donna Fella and Laylah Beattie Dublin Castle Royal Chapel until September 1…| No More Workhorse
The Secrets of Primrose Square – Gaiety Theatre – Review DATES: 9th Sep. – 13th Sep. The Secrets of Primrose Square is three interwoven stories based on a simple quote by Eleanor …| No More Workhorse
+353 Presents: The Revenger’s Tragedy – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Brian Merriman Performances – 10 – 13 Sept, 21:00, 13 Sept, 15:00 Venue – Abbey Theatr…| No More Workhorse
Hungry Grass/Stray Sod – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Hungry Grass/Stray Sod – Wandering Stories Theatre Performances – 8 Sept, 19:00 (preview), 8 Sept, 20:15, 9 – …| No More Workhorse
TESTO – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review TESTO – Wet Mess – Presented by Dublin Fringe Festival Performances – 9 – 10 Sept, 21:00 Venue – Project Arts Centr…| No More Workhorse
Don’t Tell Dad About Diana – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Brian Merriman Performances – 8 Sept, 18:00 (preview), 9 – 10 Sept, 20:00, 12 Sept, 13:00 & 20:00, …| No More Workhorse
Lila Tristram – America – Album Review Lila Tristram is a UK-based singer-songwriter who has previously released a few solo EPs. This is her first full-length album, and unlike her EPs, this…| No More Workhorse
Good With Faces – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review Good With Faces – Oisín Kearney Venue – Project Arts Centre – Cube Performances – 6 Sept, 18:30 (preview), 7 &#…| No More Workhorse
Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review by Brian Merriman Presented by Pea Dinneen & Once Off Productions Performances – 6 Sept, 18:15 (preview), 7 Se…| No More Workhorse
Octopus Children – Dublin Fringe Festival – Review FELISPEAKS – Presented by THISISPOPBABY Performances 5 Sept, 21:00 (preview), 6 – 7 Sept , 21:00, 11 – 14 Sept, 18:…| No More Workhorse
Synapses – Civic Theatre – Review We meet Mike (Liam Wilson Smyth) when he is dropping his son back to his ex-wife, Emily (Molly Downey). They are a young couple that were once very muc…| No More Workhorse
The Girl on the Train – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review THE GIRL ON THE TRAIN – 26 – 30 August 2025 Rachel Watson (Laura Whitmore) is a young woman who is struggling with …| No More Workhorse
Continuing my thoughts about the August Wilson American Century Cycle Experience, currently on stage at Pittsburgh Playwrights Theater Company: with Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom having now opened in PPTCO’s brand-new cabaret space at Madison Arts Center, I’m struck by another common thread that links the three plays currently in production. All of them seem to be positing … … Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
In the lobby of the August Wilson house you can read a letter that Pittsburgh Playwrights Theatre Company’s founder and artistic director Mark Clayton Southers wrote to August Wilson in 2002, describing his intent to establish a theater in Pittsburgh that would offer Black audiences stories that spoke to their history and lived experience. Wilson’s … … Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
We live in cynical times, Dear Reader. And there is perhaps no playwright whose work captures, with dark wit, the many dimensions through which contemporary cynicism expresses itself than Irish-Bri…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
The title of this festival is pretty much all you need to know about its content: on tap is a …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
If you were to ask me what I love most about Chekhov as a writer, I’d probably say that it’s …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Strong Wind – Smock Alley Theatre – Review Dates: 6 – 31 May 2025 @ 8pm, 31 May @ 3pm – Boys’ School Jon Olav Fosse is a Norwegian author, translator, and playwright who won the N…| No More Workhorse
Tina: The Tina Turner Musical – Bord Gáis Energy Theatre – Review by Brian Merriman Presented in association with Tina Turner Dates: 27 May – 14 June 2025 Just two years ago this …| No More Workhorse
Scorched Earth – Dublin Dance Festival – Review On the Abbey Stage – Dates: 23 – 24 May 2025 Written, Directed and Choreographed by Luke Murphy Scorched Earth runs at the Ga…| No More Workhorse
The time: 1974. The place: a fishing boat bobbing in the ocean off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard. The situation: …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Front Porch Theatricals has once again rummaged around in the attic of theater history and dusted off a forgotten musical. …Continue reading →| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Embers is a play that’s easy to describe but difficult to categorize. Adapted by Christopher Hampton from a novel by Hungarian writer Sandor Marai, the play depicts the reunion, after 41 years, of …| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Re:INCARNATION – Dublin Dance Festival – Review Dates: 20 May – 21 May – On the Abbey Stage Directed and Choreographed by Qudus Onikeku QDance Company are from Lagos, Nigeria, so…| No More Workhorse
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review by Frank L. Dates: 20 – 24 May 2025 – Part of the Dublin Dance Festival It was over thirty years ago th…| No More Workhorse
Somnole – Dublin Dance Festival – Review by Frank L. Somnole – performed at the Project Arts Centre Somnole choreographed and performed by Boris Charmatz The stage is entirely emp…| No More Workhorse
Specky Clark – Dublin Dance Festival – Review Performed at the Abbey Theatre Find out more about Oona Doherty here. Specky Clark – Co-produced and presented by Dublin Dance Festiv…| No More Workhorse
Lovesong – Gate Theatre – Review LOVESONG by Abi Morgan Dates – 9th May to 15th June 2025 Photo: Patricio Cassinoni We meet a couple, Maggie and Billy, at two stages of their liv…| No More Workhorse
Reader, let me get your first concern out of the way: even though basketball – and, particularly, basketball legend LeBron James – are important to its characters, you yourself really do not need t…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Cock – Smock Alley – Review 4 – 8 Mar 2025 @ 8pm Sat 8 @ 3pm – Boys’ School – Smock Alley Cock tells the story of John (Séan Mc Manus), a gay man who has found himself with …| No More Workhorse
No Romance: A Desperate Business – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review February 24th – March 15, 2025 No Romance: A Desperate Business written by Nancy Harris The set is a funera…| No More Workhorse
King Lear – Gate Theatre – Review Photos by Ross Kavanagh Dates – 21st Feb until 27th April When King Lear (Conleth Hill) utters the immortal line ‘Nothing will come of noth…| No More Workhorse
MILK – Abbey Theatre – Review The Abbey Theatre presents a Khashabi Theatre / Palestine production MILK مِلْك Dates – 20 February – 1 March 2025 By Bashar Murkus and Khulood…| No More Workhorse
Did I Ever Tell Ya – Viking Theatre – Review by Frank L. Did I Ever Tell Ya – written by David Gilna Monday 17 February – Saturday 1 March 2025 20:00 David Gilna is back wit…| No More Workhorse
MANY MEs – Project Arts Centre – Review Date – 18th February Time – 7:30pm Space – The Space Upstairs – Duration – 40 minutes This is a solo piece by chore…| No More Workhorse
Hypocrisy is in the air, dear Reader. No, I’m not talking about the shitshow in Washington, although obviously it hangs thick there; rather, I’m talking about what’s on our local stages, and, in a …| The Pittsburgh Tatler
It’s an elementary school cheat, but I’m going to start this post with a definition: Unreconciled: 1) not brought into harmony, incompatible; 2) not reconciled or mollified; 3) theology&n…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Emma – Abbey Theatre – Review Dates: 22 November – 25 January 2025 Written by Kate Hamill, based on the novel by Jane Austen Directed by Claire O’Reilly ” Emma Woodhou…| No More Workhorse
No Citation – Smock Alley – Review by Brian Merriman 20 – 23 Nov 2024 @ 8pm – Boys’ School Teatro Nua presents this 70-minute musical play, which has finally arrived in Dublin, ha…| No More Workhorse
From Eden – Civic Theatre – Review by Frank L. Glass Mask Theatre presents From Eden by Stephen Jones Directed by Jed Murray November 19 – 23 Civic Theatre December 9 – 19 Glass Mask Th…| No More Workhorse
Everything Falls – Project Arts Centre – Review Project Arts Centre, Dublin – 16th – 23rd Nov (No show Sun 17) | 7:30pm | 2:30pm Sat 23rd Town Hall Theatre, Galway – 26 Nov| 8pm Everyth…| No More Workhorse
The Borrowers – Gate Theatre – Review This Christmas the Gate Theatre presents the classic family adventure THE BORROWERS – by Mary Norton Adapted for the stage by Charles Way Mus…| No More Workhorse
Esmeralda – The New Theatre – Review by Frank L Esmeralda – Written by Helen Casey Event Dates: 12/11/2024 – 16/11/2024 Esmeralda is a trip down memory lane when three old s…| No More Workhorse
opPaddy Goes to Petra – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L Paddy Goes to Petra – Written and Directed by Áine Ryan Paddy (Brendan Dunlea) is a middle-aged farmer with…| No More Workhorse
Paddy – The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong – Viking Theatre – Review by Frank L. The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong – written by Mary-Elaine Tynan, Don Wycherley and N…| No More Workhorse
There is a ride at Hershey Park called Storm Runner that “launches riders from 0-72 miles per hour in 2 seconds flat and that is just the beginning.” That’s about as good a description as I can thi…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Head Case – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L HEAD CASE – The Love Song of an A & E Patient August 19th – September 7th, 2024. @ 1pm Head Case written and…| No More Workhorse
AILEEN – Smock Alley Theatre – Review 12 – 17 Aug – 8pm, 3pm on 17 Aug Boys’ School – Smock Alley Venom & Duct Tape presents AILEEN We meet Ripley as she is about to tel…| No More Workhorse
In Quantum Theatre’s production of A Moon for the Misbegotten, the shanty where the Hogan family lives may be sparsely furnished, but it’s filled with repressed desires and longings. L to R: Brett…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
One thing is almost certain: David Mamet’s Oleanna will likely piss you off. But the reason why it will piss you off will also (almost certainly) vary. And – if you’re like me, and have read or see…| The Pittsburgh Tatler
Night Dances – Dublin Dance Festival – Review by G. O’Byrne Presented by Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre – Night Dances 24 – 25 May 2024 – Created by…| No More Workhorse
CARCAÇA – Abbey Theatre – Review CARCAÇA – Marco da Silva Ferreira Presented by Dublin Dance Festival and the Abbey Theatre Big Pulse Dance Alliance Co-Production | Irish Premiere…| No More Workhorse
BLKDOG – Abbey Theatre – Review As part of the Dublin Dance Festival 17 – 18 May 2024 Directed and Choreographed by Botis Seva Mental health is one of the key issues of our times …| No More Workhorse
13 Tongues – Dublin Dance Festival – Review Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan Dates: May 14th & 15 The Dublin Dances Festival kicked off last night with a visit from Cloud Gate Dan…| No More Workhorse