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 ...

I always wondered how the British could use the word "bloody" to add emphasis to any phrase -- "bloody marvelous," "bloody awful," "not bloody likely." But it's bloody nothing compared to the bloody ...

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This story is free to read because readers choose to support LAist. If you find value in independent local reporting, make a donation to power our newsroom today. In 1993 in the small Irish town of ...

On a lonely road on the island of Inishmore, someone killed an Irish Liberation Army enforcer's cat. He'll want to know who when he gets back from a stint of torture and chip-shop bombing in Northern ...

The Lieutenant of Inishmore: Dark comedy. By Martin McDonagh. Directed by Les Waters. With Blake Ellis, Molly Camp, James Carpenter. (Through May 17. Berkeley Repertory's Roda Theatre, 2015 Addison St ...

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 ...

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 ...