In The Crucible at the Gaiety, Andrew McCarthy gives a fine performance, but this Miller should be more ambitious – The Irish Times

The Crucible Gaiety Theatre, Dublin ★★★☆☆ Arthur Miller’s The Crucible is a play about the perils of moral panic, groupthink and superstition. But, as its title suggests, it is also about the civilisational importance of fire in a literal sense. The characters’ lives are dominated by wood: buying it, growing it, fighting over it. Arson … Read more

‘Perks of fame involve vanity, ego and sex – all three get you in trouble’ – The Irish Times

“Try to keep your cool,” my 16-year-old daughter instructed as I left the house to interview Andrew McCarthy. The night before we had rewatched one of his most enduring movies from the 1980s, Pretty in Pink. That movie turns 40 years old this year, but the universal language of teenage longing is so perfectly expressed … Read more