Zinc review: One man’s unusual history becomes a left-field meditation on identity and language
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel direct a multinational, plurilingual cast in their adaptation of David Van Reybrouck’s book
A Moon for the Misbegotten review: Virtuoso performances power an often sublime Druid production
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Eileen Walsh, Lorcan Cranitch and Marty Rea excel under Garry Hynes’ direction
Meredith review: Dramatic temperature could be dialled up a notch in comic study of familial dysfunction
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The stakes never seem particularly high in Annabelle Comyn’s brisk 90-minute staging
Animals review: Blindboy’s full-scale theatrical debut is a bit of a loose baggy monster
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Abbey production has a thoughtful, accomplished first half, but then it loses focus and coherence
Cyclone review: Who was the real Billy Warren? Was he an IRA gunrunner? The picture is still hazy
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Anu’s portrait of the boxer has only a patchy historical record to draw on. It might benefit from more dramatic licence
Radio Bette, minus Ruth Negga, opens Dublin Theatre Festival with deadpan drollery
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: As Bette Davis in All About Eve, Marcus Amaglo has an air of imperious dignity while also bringing out the ageing star’s vulnerability
Mirandolina review: Marina Carr updates 18th-century comedy as feminist tragedy with keen moral purpose
Theatre: This take on La Locandiera, set mainly in a Dublin Italian restaurant, emphasises the universality of its central themes of misogyny and intimate violence
Ulster American at the Abbey Theatre review: Matthew Broderick boasts expert timing in slightly dated comedy
Theatre: David Ireland’s play, first staged in 2018, unfolds in knockabout style but suffers from weaknesses in characterisation
Making a Show of Myself review: Mary Kate O Flanagan never misses a beat
Theatre: Performer tells six loosely connected stories about her life on a bare stage with absorbing results
The Brightening Air review: Kate Gilmore gives a standout performance in Conor McPherson’s play
The supernatural lurks during a strained family reunion, but never coalesces into a haunting spectacle
Stories from Dubliners review: Back for Bloomsday, Joyce’s stories get a dollop of comic energy
Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts
The Whiteheaded Boy review: Heart of Abbey’s summer show lies in an unexpected place
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play
Poison review: Full of emotional texture, this play deserves richer characterisation
Theatre: In the Irish premiere of Lot Vekemans’s play, grieving parents care most about trying to dominate each other
The Good Luck Club review: Absorbing study of Irish sweepstake greed features oodles of skulduggery
Louise Lowe’s promenade piece, at the National Archives, portrays the shady history of the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake
The Gate’s assured Ideal Husband remains fittingly haunted by the circumstances of its creation
Matthew Malone and Caitríona Ennis star in Marc Atkinson Borrull’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s most political work