Dublin Theatre Festival announces Róise Goan as new artistic director
Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
This year’s festival, which celebrated 30 years, hosted 74 events, 520 performances in 29 venues across the city involving more than 500 artists
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Sisters Megan and Shannon Haly star in this dizzying coming-of-age rollercoaster ride
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Lianne O’Hara shines as Camilla, who is single and wants a baby, in all of her fury, heartache and scorn
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, an impressive raconteur, intersperses personal narrative with confidently warbled original songs
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The comedian’s guided tour of the past few years of his life features musical ditties by way of sombre reflection
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Galway singer dedicates a show whose weight is lost on nobody to sharing other people’s stories
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhing
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: You’d barely notice the hour pass as TikTok breakout star takes his audience on a witty journey from childhood dreams and identity dilemmas to his later struggles
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The composer’s song cycle sets out to retune our ‘relationship with the earth at this time of climate crisis’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Future Is on the Way is followed by John Scott’s simultaneously entertaining and meditative Actions (Now)
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In aiming to unsettle, Joy Nesbitt’s satire relies on less plausible devices
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cox jests about being a superstar, but, in his quick-witted humour and candid authenticity, he already is
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Ireland’s growing improv scene will teach you how to let go and play around
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Hannah Gumbrielle’s storytelling is acrobatic as she is in this show about her lymphoma diagnosis and treatment
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Janet Moran cannily sets post-Eighth Amendment comedy in English abortion clinic
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Anna Newell’s immersive dance performance for babies creates a beautiful, deeply rewarding experience
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Dead Centre’s new production features remarkable performances from six people living with long-term illness
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The ‘great reset’ provides the backdrop for an enigmatic show brought to life by Stephanie Dufresne and Alex O’Neill
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: A one-man show is no easy feat, but the Young Offenders star Shane Casey struggles to fill the stage
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: SexyTadhg’s ingenious show meditates on concerns about authentic selves while the outside world beams into people’s minds
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cian Jordan and Allie O’Rourke share their journeys into stand-up in this zippy but fraught comedy show
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
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What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?
The innovative theatre company are bringing back Wake, their exuberant, life-affirming explosion of a show, for St Patrick’s Festival 2024
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
Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time
New to the Parish: Joy Nesbitt came to Dublin from Dallas in 2020
Half a dozen figures from the arts world reveal what they require to realise their full potential as creators
This year’s festival, the 29th, hosted 560 artists in 562 performances of 77 productions in 32 venues across the city
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The lines blur between movement and music in this production inspired by the children’s poems of WB Yeats
The comedian is at his most intimate in his new book, a memoir of family life where grief and laughter sit side by side
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The ‘crip kink’ billing promises the transgressive. The performance is much more
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The comedian enjoys his games and riffs, and so does the audience
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hilarious new show about fashion, fame and the lengths some may go to keep the dream alive
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The considerable physical skills of aerialists Monika Palova and Sean McIlraith impress
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Hannah Mamalis plays a multitude of characters in her hilarious and absurdist solo show
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The dancer and choreographer contorts and shapes her body with meticulous care in a masterly performance
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
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Síomha Hennessy serves an effervescent mix of stand-up and musical turns
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Evocative, thoughtful, entertaining and uplifting about the nature of urban life
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Gráinne Blumenthal, who stars in the one-woman show, was made for the stage
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