Archive for the ‘Theatre’ Category
Double the festivities this St. Patrick’s Day
Cork Art student and past member of Waterford Youth Arts, local man Louis Quinn is currently working on the most amazing WYA 25th Birthday themed float.
Review: The Brother
Eamon Morrissey returned to the Theatre Royal after a quarter of a century with his much acclaimed one-man show The Brother.
Review: The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas
Under the inspired direction of husband and wife team Bill and Anne-Marie Stafford, New Ross Musical Society has developed a young and committed team and their production of the 1978 stage show and 1982 movie The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas had that happy bright feel to it.
Review: The Beauty Queen of Leenane
There was a special interest with the excellent London Classic theatre production of The Beauty Queen of Leenane.
Review: The Country Boy
Moondharrig Players Mooncoin, brought a sad and at times bitter sense of memory to an iconic play The Country Boy by John Murphy.
Razor sharp ‘Sweeney’ wows Strand audiences
Audiences of ‘Sweeney Todd’ have been enthralled, mesmerised, shattered almost.
Review: At Swim Two Birds
The Sligo based innovative theatre company Blueraincoat came to Garter Lane last week for three days with Jocelyn Clarke’s unexciting adaptation of Flann O’Brien’s At Swim Two Birds.
Review: The Pirate Queen
Ballinrobe Musical Society with the World Amateur Premier of Boubil and Schonberg’s The Pirate Queen created musical theatre history with an amazing stunning production.
Review: Sweeney Todd
Carrick-on-Suir Musical Society with their operatic and dramatic production of Sondheim’s disturbing grand Guignol bloodfest, Sweeney Todd, The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, showed why they are one of the top musical theatre societies in Ireland.
Review: Andy Cummins
Theatre is often about contrasts and at a time when cuts and recession are hitting hard with the Abbey Theatre facing a million euro reduction and about a dozen theatre companies at near extinction.