Reviews

Familiar families on the road in Little Miss Sunshine and terrorism in downtown LA in Right at Your Door. By Declan Burke

The relationship between fantasy and reality is always on artist Ciaran Walsh's mind, whether he is musing about Coronation Street characters or creating brash microcosms, says Billy Leahy

As Oxegen struggles to recover from bad press, John Reynolds' Electric Picnic festival is set to be the gig of the summer. By John Byrne

The last-minute replacement of an actor in Pyrenees provides Colin Murphy with a unique opportunity to watch the dramatic process

Declan Burke on The Sentinal, which drowns in its many plotlines, and the frantically-paced Crank

Only one of the Project's Make Your Move billboards seems to have gleaned a significant public response, and it wasn't a positive one. By Billy Leahy

Volunteer holidays abroad are increasingly popular among young Irish people but for some, the experience doesn't live up expectations. John Holden and Emma Browne speak to volunteers who felt mislead by programme operators

Two new plays offer contrasting answers to what theatre is all about, says Colin Murphy

Billy Leahy on two current group shows: the Mark Garry-curated Plane and The Obsessive Garden

A Congolese immigrant gets mixed up in the world of gangland crime in Irish flick The Front Line, while in You, Me and Dupree, Owen Wilson just can't get the message that the honeymoon is over. By Declan Burke