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A few thoughts on...... Harry Chapin
The radio broke in my car the other day and I was left withou sounds, other than me singing to myself. Which is odd, because as long as I can remember there has alwasy been the radio or music on while...
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Review Time: Muse Theatre Company's Songs For a New World
The end of the week is always a good thing (TGIF and all that) and last Friday was surprising in a good way. As you may have gathered from previous posts, I really like the work of Jason Robert Brown,...
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A Few Thoughts on.... Linda Eder
And I'm back! Yes, there has been a lack of posts coming from this part of the blogosphere, but Glee is back, and so is The Red Curtain Review. Through my sabbatical I was listening to Linda Eder's new...
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Book Corner: The Burning Soul by John Connolly
Things have been a bit hectice round here the last while, mainly work and life. But during that time I got to read the new Charlie Parker novel by John Connolly: The Burning Soul. The Burning Soul is a...
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Halloween From Behind The Red Curtain...
Another year and another Halloween survived, due to more treats than tricks. Despite having some seriously good spooky house decorations, lighted ghosts and bats out of hell, there were a couple of...
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Holidays are coming.... Pantos, Jessie Buckley and More
It was only yesterday that we were hearing the calls of 'trick or treat', but in the distance there's the sound of sleigh bells. What brought it home had nothing to do with any thoughts of Christmas...
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Little Women at The Gate
When I was booking the tickets I wasn't really sure about seeing it. I can't claim to have seen any of the movies, but I do own the cast album of the shortlived Broadway musical Little Women with...
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Mariachi Irish Style....
Friday night we went to the start of the Mexican Food Festival, A Taste of Mexico. Yes, its not usually the thing I write about, even though food and theatre are connected: think pre-theatre dinner and...
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It's beginning to sound a lot like Christmas FM...
Last year I made a great discoery: the Christmas FM radio station. Now, I must admit, I do love the seasonal tunes, something you will notice over the next few weeks, and the idea of a station...
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Christmas Albums.....Linda, Kristin and Cliff
The Christmas baking has started (and the mince pies taste amazing!), and while all this is going on the Christmas songs are playing at full blast. Over the years many have tried their hand at the...
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Review Time: Sister Act The Musical
Usually people are heading out to panto's this time of year, and in theses parts that is no different, with three pantos going on Dublin, one with Jedward! For me though, a few of us took ourselves...
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What to see? Things to look forward to....
A big Happy New Year to all. And what better way to start the New Year than a preview of all the theatrical goodies that will be finding their way to the stages of my home town, Dublin, in the next few...
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An Offer I Couldn't Refuse....
Food and theatre, or movies, is something that goes hand in hand. Pre-theatre menus, dinner after a movie, or snacks on the way into the auditorium, even the annoying, noisy ones, are all part of the...
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Thoughts on 'Love Never Dies'
I was out hunting for a Mother's Day gift the other week (Mother's Day is earlier here than in the US) when there on the shelf was the just released Australian production of 'Love Never Dies', the...
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Review Time: 'Avenue Q'
I will own up now: I have never seen Avenue Q. Heard about it yes; actually see it, well, no. When a friend asked if we would go along with a group, we said yes. He saw it twice already and this would...
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Review Time: Bonnie & Clyde Cast Album
There is no other place to start than with this summation of the depression set era musical about two outlaws Bonnie & Clyde other than saying: this is a fantastic cast album, with very strong,...
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Yesterday Once More: The Soundtrack of me
What is it about music? The simple question brings up a lot of thoughts. But the word I think of is this: personal. We might only listen to it, buy it, dance to it and sing along with it, not even...
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I Can't Believe it's not ABBA.....
The car got robbed a week or so ago. Well, not the car itself, but most of what was in it. Picture it: a regular morning, cloudy sky, will it rain or not, and there I was heading out to the gym, waved...
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Man or Muppet?!
The gift pack pressie!The other day I got a great gift pack: a Muppet bag, the new movie and Kermit the Frog. Needless to say, I slipped the DVD in straight away to watch Amy Adams and Jason Segel do...
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Mini-Cinema and The Commitments
It's amazing the things you don't know. Recently, we were invited to a small party to watch The Commitments, the Alan Parker film based on the Roddy Doyle novel of the same name. Nothing strange in...
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Dallas!
A few tweets last week signaled that Dallas was indeed back. Like Pam, back in the original series, I thought maybe it was a dream, but that's where the similarity ended. For her it was (Bobby back...
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Conversations on a Home Coming by Tom Murphy
This was originally written for 'The Public Reviews'There is something comforting in watching an excellent production of a play. Seeing a company act their socks off, yet making it seem so effortless,...
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The Picture of Dorian Gray at the Abbey Theatre
This review was originally written for 'The Public Reviews'Photo Ros Kavanagh“But the bravest among us is afraid of himself”, Lord Henry tells Dorian Gray. Of course, Dorian has every reason to be...
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Talk of the Town at the Project Arts Centre
This was originally written for 'The Public Reviews'Photo: Patrick RedmondThere is no point in going around the houses; it’s better to say it out straight. Emma Donoghue’s new work, The Talk of the...
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8 Tracks
The radio was always on in the house, giving shape to the day. The ‘Getting Ready School Rag’ was the morning news with David Hanly; if you were sick or on holidays you got to listen to the infamous...
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