Stage Reviews

Saoirse at Dublin Fringe: A charming Gaeltacht musical with superb vocal performances

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: This Irish-language production hinges on a sweet coming-of-age romance at an embattled coláiste

By Laura Slattery

Matilda the Musical in Dublin review: Still endlessly inventive, still an easy five stars

In the RSC’s production, a tireless cast bring a perfectly balanced mix of grotesquerie and goodness to Roald Dahl’s cautionary tale

By Sara Keating

Saving for a Helicopter at Dublin Fringe: Powerful one-woman account of hereditary illness

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Gráinne Curistan carries the audience through a series of linked anecdotes and emotional hairpin turns

By Tom Lordan

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

By Chris McCormack

Trolley Boy at Dublin Fringe: Hollow consumer culture questioned through dance

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Contentment is not stacked on shelves in Diarmuid Armstrong Mayock’s supermarket dreamscape

By Michael Seaver

Pretty Vacant at Dublin Fringe: Five-star masterclass about exploitation of the Liberties

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Musical satire staged in city’s oldest neighbourhood dispels any fears of disconnect with local area

By Cian O'Connell

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

By Chris McCormack

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

By Chris McCormack

Daddy Issues at Dublin Fringe: Women carry clones of Collins and Lincoln in clever comedy

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Even the slapstick has a point to it in Brigid Leahy’s high-concept play

By Harry Higgins

The Act of Existing at Dublin Fringe: Who dances first, Ben or Bobbi? The audience decides

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Crowd has the power to be merciful in this interactive dance theatre

By Michael Seaver

Diversity Training at Dublin Fringe has legs as an idea but the execution is undercooked

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Show’s most interesting moments are interactions with the audience

By Cian O'Connell

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

By Chris McCormack

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