The Arts Review​

Entr’acte's production of Jesus Christ Superstar. Image Alison Whelan ***** There’s professional and then there's professional. Usually, professional means a paid gig. But there are also professional standards, which many paid gigs struggle to live up to. Entr’acte Music Society’s Jesus Christ Superstar might be an amateur production, but Entr’acte’s professional standards are second to none. Their revival of Jesus Christ Superstar worthy of an Off-Broadway run for delivering

Caroline Menton, Garrett Lombard and Aislín McGuckin in Fair Deal. Image: Ros Kavanagh *** Tinder toy boy, the objectify-able Rio, luxuriates on a pull out sofa bed. Meanwhile, flustered Keira is urging his perfectly chiselled body to get dressed and leave her house. But Rio wants to indulge in endless small talk and unnecessary oversharing. A hallmark of Una McKevitt’s dark comedy Fair Deal . Resembling a postcoital conversation that prattles on when it really should be m

Timmy Creed and Martha Dunlea in Infinity. Image, Marcin Lewandowski **** What is the nature of time? In Canadian playwright, Hannah Moscovitch’s hugely engaging Infinity , an obsession with time leaves no time for anything else. Moscovitch’s troped tale from 2014 less a treatise on theoretical physics so much as a study of family dynamics. Articulating how, as in David Auburn’s Proof , or Adam Rapp’s The Sound Inside , very smart people share a striking resemblance to the