Lourdes! The Musical: An impressively complex tale of shame
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Xnthony is a long-time cabaret subversive. Rarely has he been sentimental
‘This is a big achievement for me, to see the audience crying and talking about their parents’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The acclaimed director Mario Banushi on his play Mami, a follow-up to his hit Romance Familiare trilogy
Hard Mouth Show & Tell at Dublin Fringe: A world looking past women with endometriosis
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: In this unsettling work, a male critic only sees what he wants to see
Muster at Dublin Fringe is a swooning play about releasing locked-up male emotion
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Whirling verses reach incandescent finale in this eloquent work
Dead in Here at Dublin Fringe: Gen Z dread looms in admirably sly work
A group of friends escape to a country estate and try to party like it’s 2019
Thérèse at Dublin Fringe: A frictionless tale of Dublin’s declining estates in the 1980s
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Portrait of worried mothers is overly neat, like a conversation where no one disagrees
Soak: The Perfect Man at Dublin Fringe is a sharply comic take on fathers and eldest sons
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Samuel Yakura says something serious while being one of Irish theatre’s great goofballs
The one-person play where you’re handed a script and invited to perform it to a tree
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Theatre designer Dan Daly on bringing Arborlogues from Brooklyn to St Stephen’s Green
Pádraicín review: A sublime tour through Galway, where artists make reality big and messy
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Brú Theatre’s promenade production sends Pádraic Ó Conaire’s characters scattering through the city
The Lost Tapes of Lydia Howell review: A musician lost in the wilderness of writer’s block
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: A shoegaze dream becomes a nightmare in Ray Scannell’s play, in which he also stars
Evanna Lynch: ‘With another set of parents, in another time, I would have been dismissed as mad’
The actor saw in herself a poignant parallel with Lucia Joyce. Despondent after her film project about the dancer came to a halt, she has been lured back to performance for Cork Midsummer Festival
Tea in a China Cup review: Before Derry Girls, there was Christina Reid’s knockout comedy
Amy Molloy, Mary Moulds, Marie Jones and Katie Tumelty star in Dan Gordon’s revival of the Belfast writer’s first play
Adelphi ’63 review: Irish Beatlemania and the friendships behind it add up to a zippy feelgood comedy
Theatre: Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins play pop superfans in 1960s Dublin
The House Must Win review: Mick Flannery’s gritty musical feels small for the voices within it
Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation
Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng: ‘I’m interested in outsiders, that feeling of in-between, and trying to find peace in that’
The Madonna of Asia, Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s new play, is concerned with the dark side of Hong Kong’s golden age of music and film in 1980s and 1990s