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“For never was a story of more woe than this of Juliet and her Romeo.”William Shakespeare’s The Tragedie Of Romeo And Juliet reinvented theatrical Tragedy by taking standard Comedic elements and subverting them, with unhappy outcomes. This makes Romeo & Juliet less a Tragedy than a Comedy-Gone-Wrong.While it is strange

I often joke that one of my favorite genres of TV is “Rich White People Doing Stupid, Rich White People Sh*t."

“The Righteous Gemstones” remains a surprisingly complex (and hilarious) take on American faith.

"As the nights draw in, we’ve something for everyone in the city, from the best of Cork comedy to internationally acclaimed theatre, and amazing ...

Orange Tree Theatre has announced the full cast for Oliver Goldsmith's She Stoops to Conquer. Artistic Director Tom Littler directs Freddie Fox and Tanya Reynolds as Charles Marlow and Kate Hardcastle, with David Horovitch and Greta Scacchi as Mr and Mrs Hardcastle, joined by Sabrina Bartlett, Richard Derrington, Guy Hughes, and Robert Mountford in this celebration of chaos and courtship.

IT’S only August but the preparations are already underway for the festive season at Cork’s iconic Everyman Theatre where this weekend Beauty and the Beast was unveiled as the panto for this upcoming festive season.

From Scorsese and Madonna to a Philip Guston retrospective, a Maria Callas tribute and Armando Iannucci’s play on Tory chaos, our writers pick the best things to see this autumn

Henry Akubuiro is a journalist and creative writer, whose play, Yamtarawala, the Warrior King, has been longlisted for the Nigeria Prize for Literature sponsored by the Nigerian Liquefied Natural Gas. A novelist, playwright, short story writer, poet and biographer, he is the author of prose narratives –Prodigals in Paradise, Vershima and the Missing Cow, Adventures […]

Shakespeare's political potboiler delivered with clarity, purposeful energy and a strong understanding of the text.

The Irish actor is taking on Lady Macbeth, perhaps the playwright’s darkest woman character, for the Royal Shakespeare Company