Every day, on the first day of the seventh lunar month, the Gates of Hell open and ghosts are allowed to return to our world.

I have to confess I was deeply sceptical that Haruki Murakami’s 1985 magical realist novel would work on stage. The plot, ...

That sound you may be hearing most evenings toward the lower end of St Martin's Lane is likely to be the roof being blown off ...

Earlier this year Marty Gleeson was the first Irish woman to win best newcomer at the Edinburgh Comedy Awards for her debut ...

Aaron Sorkin’s sequel to his The Social Network screenplay is an old-fashioned, stolid response to social media’s wildfire ...

Making the television news even in the UK, let alone in hundreds of countries around the world, the story of the lost Irish ...

Into the Woods, let's dare to state it, is the most perfect music-theatre creation of the last 40 years. Sondheim's sense of ...

There’s a sinister edge these days to men dressed all in black, marching in step. They used to be quite funny (in this country anyway) and often still are, but the Roderick Spode aspect is fading and ...

Fancy a trip to the seaside, if the fine weather holds? Then make Margate your destination. On my visit the sea was blue and ...

A young electronic music producer of my acquaintance recently wrinkled their nose at Chase & Status’s last mega hit “BACKBONE,” saying “it’s just presets”. That is, they thought C&S were using ...

This third and final instalment of Anthony Horowitz’s Susan Ryeland trilogy continues the author’s ingenious mystery-within-a ...

The titular yellow tie isn’t seen much in this lavish biopic, a gift “for a future Prime Minister of Romania” from Sean Bean’s grumpy patriarch Demostene (pictured below) to his son, the young Sergiu ...