Chris McCormack

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Chris McCormack is a contributor to The Irish Times specialising in culture.

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Rébecca Chaillon: ‘Black women in theatre, I don’t see them. Maybe they are cleaning the toilets’

One of French theatre’s greatest risk-takers is bringing her play Whitewashing to Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Mon Sept 22 2025 - 05:06

Queens of Comedy: Feral Wellness, at Dublin Fringe: Coping mechanisms reconfigured as stand-up jokes

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: Sophia Wren and Aideen McQueen’s lively comedy aims to remove the shame of chaotic behaviour

Mon Sept 15 2025 - 11:27

Am I the A**hole?, at Dublin Fringe, is a courtroom spoof more interested in judgment than justice

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Dafe Pessu Orugbo and Lisa Nally’s comedy allows the audience to watch as normal or join the jury

Sat Sept 13 2025 - 12:44

The Revenger’s Tragedy, at Dublin Fringe, puts a drill music spin on a 17th-century thriller

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Debauched, violently graphic play can feel surprisingly breezy in Kevin Keogh’s adaptation

Thu Sept 11 2025 - 15:08

Diary of a Dublin Drag Diva, at Dublin Fringe: Is Davina Devine unguarded at last?

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Unlike her peers, Davina has revealed little about who she is out of drag

Thu Sept 11 2025 - 11:43

Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice, at Dublin Fringe, is a fantastically stirring cabaret about a trans life forced on hold

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Dinneen’s play – much like her performance – conceals revelations where you don’t expect

Mon Sept 08 2025 - 13:15

FeliSpeaks tells their coming of age story in unexpected ways in Octopus Children, at Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Felicia Olusanya’s new work for Thisispopbaby is an incandescent verse play

Mon Sept 08 2025 - 10:01

Wet Mess at the Fringe: Determinedly surreal, defiantly unconventional drag

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: The London-based gender punk is finding new ways to tell stories

Sun Sept 07 2025 - 05:13

In Extremis review: Intriguing footnote from Oscar Wilde’s final days of freedom

Neil Bartlett’s play imagines Wilde’s meeting, just before his trial, with the society palmist Mrs Robinson

Mon Jul 28 2025 - 11:29

A Misanthrope: knockout satire of a horny and insincere Silicon Docks

Theatre: Molière comedy reimagined in a Dublin of agonised Millennial love

Mon Jul 21 2025 - 10:55

Riders to the Sea and Macbeth: A magnificent horror unbalancing nature

Theatre: Druid’s Galway International Arts Festival double bill

Wed Jul 16 2025 - 12:20

Wreckquiem review: Pat Shortt is well capable of an audience-pleasing expletive in an adroit performance

Mike Finn’s ambling play, set in a Limerick record shop, makes the case for art as the wrecking ball looms

Mon Jun 30 2025 - 04:59

The Black Wolfe Tone review: A heavy-on-the-pedal psychodrama

Kwaku Fortune, in his stage-writing debut, plays a frustrated young man admitted to a psychiatric institution

Fri Jun 06 2025 - 10:18

On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, why is Irish theatre still so white?

Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement

Wed May 21 2025 - 05:11

Lovesong review: An up-and-down marriage that goes to the very end

Theatre: The excellently paired Zara Devlin and Naoise Dunbar star in the Gate production of Abi Morgan’s absorbing play

Thu May 15 2025 - 09:43