Dublin Fringe Festival

Earth Sonnet: Mel Mercier’s vast soundscape of poetry and music sticks in the mind long after the performance

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’

Hyperphysical: Impressively tight-knit ensemble takes on Abby Zbikowski’s punishing but fascinating dance

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Future Is on the Way is followed by John Scott’s simultaneously entertaining and meditative Actions (Now)

Julius Caesar Variety Show: An anxious comedy about a theatre industry refusing to evolve

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In aiming to unsettle, Joy Nesbitt’s satire relies on less plausible devices

Paddy Daddy: Gloriously camp cabaret chronicling Mark T Cox’s intimate affairs in rural Ireland

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is

It Was Paradise, Unfortunately: A stunningly clever investigation of theatre as a trans art form

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat

I used to swallow my tongue at meetings. Now I’ll stand up in front of any crowd. Want to know what made the difference?

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Ireland’s growing improv scene will teach you how to let go and play around

Malignant Humour review: This one-woman wonder is far funnier than a cancer-inspired circus act has any right to be

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment

Afterwards review: Impeccable performances and crackling dialogue in a play with an unmistakable purpose

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic

An Attempt to Talk With the Beginning of the World: Organic, sensitive, magical

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Anna Newell’s immersive dance performance for babies creates a beautiful, deeply rewarding experience

Illness as Metaphor: A clever, moving and genuinely new piece of theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Dead Centre’s new production features remarkable performances from six people living with long-term illness

Dancehall Blues: Dark odyssey oscillates between 20th-century Europe and the post-Covid era

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill

Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments

The Man Who Talks to Statues: A bit like a skit your mam might send around her book-club group chat

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: A one-man show is no easy feat, but the Young Offenders star Shane Casey struggles to fill the stage

Television: A high-wattage cabaret with enough power to imagine something new

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: SexyTadhg’s ingenious show meditates on concerns about authentic selves while the outside world beams into people’s minds

A Good Room: A terrace house becomes the last decent comedy club in town

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cian Jordan and Allie O’Rourke share their journeys into stand-up in this zippy but fraught comedy show

Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett

The Guide: Dublin Fringe Festival, Gilbert O’Sullivan and more acts to see, shows to book and ones to catch before they end

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Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30

Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer

Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous

Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness

Cabaret artist SexyTadhg: ‘Irish speakers are very rebellious. So a queer Irish speaker is welcomed’

What’s Next For?: The musician, singer and performer is bringing their show Television to this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival

The best Irish summer festivals in July and August, from music and comedy to literature and science

Schools are out and out of offices are on so it’s time to plan how to get the best out of summer in Ireland

All the Irish festivals to head for this summer, from music and comedy to literature and science

There’s still just time to catch Dublin Dance Festival, Cellissimo and International Literature Festival Dublin, which end this weekend

Tom Moran Is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar review: Vulnerable exploration of a journey from self-hatred to self-fulfilment

Theatre: More than any other factor, the catharsis he is seeking onstage is an attempt to process trauma that he feels stems from an insecure attachment at home

‘It’s worth trying things. It’s worth trusting your gut. It’s worth going for it’

What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?

Thisispopbaby’s magic sauce: ‘Take Irish traditional culture, add some mirror balls, throw some glitter on it’

The innovative theatre company are bringing back Wake, their exuberant, life-affirming explosion of a show, for St Patrick’s Festival 2024

Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present

Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays

Slippery When Wet review: Sparky solo show brims with queasy humour and scathing self-awareness

Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time

‘The Irish funeral is a lot closer to the African-American funeral than I ever expected’

New to the Parish: Joy Nesbitt came to Dublin from Dallas in 2020

What do artists need to be creative? From time and space to hope, six tell us what makes them tick

Half a dozen figures from the arts world reveal what they require to realise their full potential as creators

Revealed: Dublin Fringe Festival 2023 award winners

This year’s festival, the 29th, hosted 560 artists in 562 performances of 77 productions in 32 venues across the city

When the Moon Spun Round review: Gloriously acrobatic aerial dance enthralls its young audience

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The lines blur between movement and music in this production inspired by the children’s poems of WB Yeats

Jason Byrne: ‘My brain still thinks I’m going to swing up home in a few months’ time and Dad will be there’

The comedian is at his most intimate in his new book, a memoir of family life where grief and laughter sit side by side

The Dan Daw Show review: A miraculous piece of theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much more

Tony Cantwell’s Sketch Show review: Charming and inventive with silly flights of fancy

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The comedian enjoys his games and riffs, and so does the audience

Haus of Fash Hun review: ‘Buckle up bitches’ for a wild ride with two unlikely fashionistas

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hilarious new show about fashion, fame and the lengths some may go to keep the dream alive

Red Lines review: meaning lost among beautiful balletic aerial rope tricks

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The considerable physical skills of aerialists Monika Palova and Sean McIlraith impress

Stars review: Moments of pathos interwoven with clever, dark humour

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hannah Mamalis plays a multitude of characters in her hilarious and absurdist solo show

What Is Not Ours to Carry review: Ali Clarke is mesmerising in this immersive experience

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The dancer and choreographer contorts and shapes her body with meticulous care in a masterly performance

The Crow’s Way review: A thoughtful, playful interrogation of what it means to break with tradition

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Written with a young-adult audience in mind, this is a timely meditation on how to move on from out-of-date rituals

The Coil’s Lament review: Twerking bravura and aching vulnerability

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Síomha Hennessy serves an effervescent mix of stand-up and musical turns

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