The Shaughraun review: Druid’s laugh-out-loud romp is the most enjoyable show you can imagine
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious
Two review: Patrick Ryan and Clelia Murphy bring this painful but very funny play to life
Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out
Patti Smith review: Last of the poet rock stars takes the stage on a scorching Galway night
Galway International Arts Festival: At 79, Smith’s voice remains strong, and her demeanour is as pure and earnest as ever
‘What’s the most exciting theatre in the world, and how can Irish audiences experience it?’
Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition
Dressing Room review: Enda Walsh creates a meditative, moving 15 minutes
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: The Rooms series continues with the story of a caretaker whose marriage has reached a moment of crisis
What happens when the most important relationship in your life begins to unravel?
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: In Eva O’Connor’s play For Dolores, a fractured friendship feels every bit as painful as the end of a romance
Aaron Monaghan on The Shaughraun: ‘I’d vastly underestimated Boucicault. He’s kind of a genius’
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Druid Theatre’s revival leans into the Victorian melodrama’s surprising political undercurrent
Oscar Unwritten review: A consistently entertaining, if misleading, portrait of Oscar Wilde
Theatre: Tim Scott’s tightly scripted, visually impressive, well-acted play struggles to match its subject’s self-awareness and intellectual depth
After shaky start at Iveagh Gardens, Elvis Costello finds his cowboy-booted feet
Singer, with his charming between song interludes, overcomes lacklustre opening to Dublin gig
Wet Leg at TCD review: Exuberant, witty and captivating – this band are only getting started
Rhian Teasdale is a captivating performer, with an uncanny ability to look as though she’s dancing around her bedroom
The Magic Glasses review: Excellent acting, direction and design. It’s just a shame about the script
George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy from 1913 is clearly a passion project for Conall Morrison, who is directing it at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. It can be hard to see why
Lewis Capaldi in Marlay Park: Charming and very funny. This is a moving show
CMAT opens Capaldi’s show with gorgeous, glittering, country-inflected pop songs
‘I’m learning Irish. I need to get comfortable with not being any good for a long time’
I can see echoes of Catalan education in my new Irish lessons conducted over a few pints
‘A stupid woman, miserable in appearance’: Doireann Ní Ghríofa leads us into a hospital’s haunting past
At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital
The Homecoming of Joseph Grace: Michael Glenn Murphy gives an impressive, deeply felt performance
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Deirdre Kinahan’s play follows an Irishman whose enlistment in the British army begins a life of loneliness and suffering