The Glass Cage by John Healy: Stunning record of a life
A blistering honesty defines the prose, a willingness to present the author in an unflattering light
Let Me In review: A brilliant premise, but this play ultimately feels underdeveloped
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Esosa Ighodaro is interested in the emotional reality of belonging to a country that doesn’t always seem to want you
Refuge review: A thrillingly weird opening becomes a true story from Ireland’s past
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In her new play, directed by Jim Culleton, Deirdre Kinahan focuses on the persecuted Palatines who arrived in Co Limerick
Without Distinction of Sex review: A cautious approach to what should be a radical call for change
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Veronica Coburn asks what happened to the promises about women’s place in the State. But her demands are disappointingly modest
‘These works are still quite raw for me. I haven’t really talked about this before’
The art in Margaret Corcoran’s new exhibition weaves together Etruscan bronzes, Dante’s Divine Comedy and horrific images from Gaza
Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis: ‘It’s not for everyone. But I feel very alive when I watch it’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Sarah Kane’s final play is a dispatch from the frontline of human experience, according to Tom Creed and Marty Rea
Hysterically Shopping! To Some Sort of End review: This critique of consumer culture is a tough one to sell
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The actors put in a commendable effort, but the script of this pop opera lets them down
‘Lourdes is like a holy Blackpool or divine Las Vegas. We’re not in angelic land’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend
The secret life of the man who stood on O’Connell Street in Dublin for 40 years
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well
A Moon for the Misbegotten: ‘When people are ready for this play, it is a balm on them’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Druid theatre company is staging Eugene O’Neill’s final work. It needs great acting to come to life
The Weeknd at Croke Park review: Faintly ridiculous – what’s with the Nespresso ad? – but still pure fun
Abel Tesfaye’s Saturday-night Dublin show is a real spectacle. Oddly, though, there’s remarkably little sexual charisma
Tír an Traonaigh review: As the sun breaks through the clouds, there are tears in the audience
This elegiac play takes us across the Mullet peninsula to experience a disappearing part of our lives
We live in a glut of information but we lack the knowledge of vision, intuition and dreams
It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy as stupidity or irrationality, but I’m open to hearing what the rational mind filters out
Translating Marina Carr for the stage: ‘You spend so many hours weighing every word’
A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together
The Alice Project review: Kilkenny witch-hunt story reaches thrilling finale
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: City turns its history into theatre with huge, largely local cast. It’s a visually stunning spectacle