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 ...

The scenario seems simple enough but plays itself out to startling effect. The hapless 17-year-old Davey (Chris Walley, in a winning stage debut) is in a tizzy as the play begins, having inadvertently ...

Fella's hanging from his feet with his hands tied behind his back, winched up above the stage so the blood inside his body runs to his head and the blood outside his body – from the two toenails that ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Aidan Turner of 'Poldark' stars as a sectarian killer distraught over the health of his pet cat in this West End revival of Martin McDonagh's dark comic thriller 'The Lieutenant of Inishmore.' By ...

Undoubtedly some audience members will be put off by McDonagh’s work, which is very free with adult language and violent content. But there is a point to it all, one that’s quite clear in this dark ...

"I'm just in the middle of shooting me dad," says Padraic (David Wilmot), the self-styled "lieutenant" at the bloodied and often murderously funny heart of "The Lieutenant of Inishmore." But a son's ...

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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 ...