“The Lieutenant of Inishmore” burnished Martin McDonagh’s credentials as the reigning bad boy of blood-soaked modern absurdism. Boy, did it ever. A production of the Anglo-Irish playwright’s gaudily ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...