Is it offensive to call a burlesque show "charming"? Sure, it is a funny and mildly titillating evening, but Show:Girls is suffused with such good natured charm that it is hard to describe it as anything else. Unlike Gallifrey Cabaret which puts on a plethora of variety acts, this is a rather stripped down production. The central conceit is that two acts have been accidentally double booked.…| Terence Eden’s Blog
Let's see if this post makes it through the spam filters! Sluts With Consoles is a brilliant two-hander. Girly-twirly pick-me Player One and Gothy just-one-of-the-boys Player Two are locked in mortal - and emotional - combat. They represent the duality of the female gaming experience. Is it better to be feminine or feminist? Is gaming an escape from the cliques of teenage oppression, or just…| Terence Eden’s Blog
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
Mr Wickham is ready to set the record straight. Celebrating the 250th anniversary of Jane Austen’s birth, Adrian Lukis, who starred in the renowned BBC TV adaptation of Pride and Prejudice, returns to the role of Mr Wickham. Join Pride and Prejudice’s most roguish gentleman, George Wickham, on the eve of his sixtieth birthday, to lift the sheets on what exactly happened thirty years on from whe…| Terence Eden’s Blog
I have rarely been this bored during a West End Show. Conor McPherson seems to have fundamentally misunderstood what makes an engaging drama and, simultaneously, what makes for an enjoyable "jukebox musical". The writing is like an exaggerated soap opera script which consists solely of angry people asking each other questions, which are then answered with more questions. Sample dialogue: Who…| Terence Eden’s Blog
An abandoned warehouse in Deptford hosts one of the most audacious, ostentatious, and sumptuous shows I've ever attended. An immersive theatrical experience which is lush with texture, ambitious in scope, and yet - somehow - slightly less than the sum of its parts. The pre-show is exemplary. You're handed a lanyard with a room number and make your way through the imposing set until you find…| Terence Eden’s Blog
Dr Hibbett - he of the eponymous and well-regarded Hibbert Method - has taken the "Sing Your Thesis" concept to a brand new level. Who is Doctor Doom? I have only a passing interest in the increasingly convoluted Marvel Cinematic Universe, so I walked into this new comedy show with no idea. I assumed a baddie of some sort? I left with, if not a university education on the subject, then a…| Terence Eden’s Blog
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
Friends In Berlin – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L Dates: May 12th – 31st, 2025 Adolf Hitler, because of his notoriety, is known simply by his surname, Hitler. Le…| 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
Chora – Bord Gais Energy Theatre – Review Chora – Luail – Ireland’s National Dance Company with the Irish Chamber Orchestra – Part of the Dublin Dance Festival It was …| No More Workhorse
The Shark is Broken – Gaiety Theatre – Review by Brian Merriman DATES: 13th May. – 17th May. “DIVE INTO THE DRAMA BEHIND THE SCENES OF HOLLYWOOD’S FIRST BLOCKBUSTER” U…| 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
La Traviata – Gaiety Theatre – Review by G O’Byrne Produced by Irish National Opera La Traviata – Gaiety Theatre Dublin 21st May – 25th May 2024 La Traviata tells t…| No More Workhorse
On A House Like A Fire – Bewley’s Cafe Theatre – Review by Frank L On A House Like A Fire – written and performed by Michelle Read Music by Brian Keegan – May 20th …| 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
The Pillowman – Lyric Theatre – Review by Cathy Brown The Pillowman by Martin McDonagh A Lyric Theatre and Prime Cut Co-Production Until June 15th, 2024 Following on from their impressi…| 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