Over the last few years, Curious had become somewhat peripheral on the mental map where I chart the progress of Denver’s serious theater companies. Curious’s casting was often uneven, and its choice ...

Once, when I was a young teenager and my parents were out of town, the baby sitter staying at our home looking after me — and, by extension, looking after Missy, our sweet if somewhat daffy rescue dog ...

Whether they loved it or loathed it, critics appear to agree on one thing about Martin McDonagh’s black comedy “The Lieutenant of Inishmore,” the Mark Taper Forum’s current offering: It’s the goriest ...

There are two things that the average American audience member might notice about playwright Martin McDonagh’s work. The first is that his characters like to say “feck” a lot--an Irish variation on ...

Gaiety Theatre, Dublin ★★★☆☆ Beforehand there's a standard announcement about interval drinks and merchandise, and you half expect them to sell stuffed, brained cats outside. Political sensitivities ...

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Ah, the bucolic isle of Inishmore, off the coast of Ireland, in picturesque County Galway. The quaint cottages. The rugged rock formations. The terrorist whack-jobs offing cats and humans. By the end ...

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When Martin McDonagh's "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" was first seen in the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2001 Stratford staging and then in London the following year, it was greeted as an audacious ...