Dream, Sleep, Connect review: Romantic comedy struggling to make big statements about the digital era

A singleton working in big data searches for a date to his office party, in Rosemary Jenkinson's new comedy. 

Mamafesta Memorialising review: A superb dance against dementia both sad and uplifting

Choreographer Philip Connaughton fears losing his memory in this marvellous new dance. Photo: Luca Truffarelli 

Medea review: Serious performances in an adaptation that doesn’t show the same commitment

Euripides's ancient tragedy is seen from a child's perspective, in Kate Mulvany and Anne-Louise Sarks’s version. Photo: Ros Kavanagh 

Election 2020: When do you know you’re walking around a cultural ghost town?

Irish writer Maeve Brennan wrote about the demolishment of culture in 1960s New York. Photo: Getty Images

The Lieutenant of Inishmore review: Martin McDonagh’s spectacular gunfight takes risky new shots

Martin McDonagh's dark comedy about a Republican terrorist is more ridiculing and subversive than ever. Photo: Patrick Redmond

Irish Times Theatre Awards nominations: The most bizarre shortlist ever

Epiphany, Brian Watkins's Joyce-inspired play for Druid, is one of the best production nominees not nominated for either best actress, best actor or best director. Photo: Robbie Jack 

Flights review: The sad dispossession of our era in a play that isn’t quite there

Three men gather on the anniversary of their friend's death in One Duck's funny and tragic new play. Photo: Ste Murray 

Gone Full Havisham review: Enjoyably ridiculous old-school psychological horror

In her enjoyable solo play, Irene Kelleher is pleasantly over the top as a bride whose breakdown has gone viral. 

Collapsing Horse has disbanded, THEATREclub's future is uncertain. Both embodied youthful resistance to the Recession

Bears in Space, a puppet comedy by Collapsing Horse. Photo: Idil Sukan

2010s review: Writing about the art of terrible men

#MeToo is transforming theatre, and it is transforming criticism. Illustration: Don Conroy