Dublin Fringe Festival

Diary of a Dublin Drag Diva, at Dublin Fringe: Is Davina Devine unguarded at last?

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Unlike her peers, Davina has revealed little about who she is out of drag

Aliens, at Dublin Fringe, is a poignant, dysfunctional road trip via an Irish ice cream dynasty

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ambitious, memorable piece treats familiar themes in new, even alien ways

Testo, at Dublin Fringe, is a kinetic, noisy, thrilling adventure into genderpunk and transmasc

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Discombobulated by the idea of a breaststroke through a butter orgy? Buckle up for Wet Mess’s show

Constriction, at Dublin Fringe, is a haunting, lyrical meditation on motherhood

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Mai Ishikawa’s challenging performance keeps audience in a state of uncertainty

Offspring (A Modern Frankenstein) at Dublin Fringe: A subtle, personal exploration of creation and parenthood

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: Emily Terndrup unleashes chaos, then controls it with comic timing

Pea Dinneen: Raising Her Voice, at Dublin Fringe, is a fantastically stirring cabaret about a trans life forced on hold

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Dinneen’s play – much like her performance – conceals revelations where you don’t expect

Can becoming a ‘Karen’ be liberating, I Want to Speak to Your Manager asks, at Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Sparky and engaging, Holly Hughes attempts to tie a complex knot

Good With Faces, Oisín Kearney’s new two hander at Dublin Fringe, is filled with punchy twists

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Vicky Allen and Patrick McBrearty play a mother and social-care worker locked in an oscillating interrogation

Clash at the Quays! II: Lokomania, at Dublin Fringe, is sweaty, sexy and mischievous

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Ahmed, With Love marshals the kind of collective energy you hope to find in underground shows but rarely do

FeliSpeaks tells their coming of age story in unexpected ways in Octopus Children, at Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Felicia Olusanya’s new work for Thisispopbaby is an incandescent verse play

Wet Mess at the Fringe: Determinedly surreal, defiantly unconventional drag

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: The London-based gender punk is finding new ways to tell stories

Sounds from a Safe Harbour, Dublin Fringe Festival and the other best things to do in Ireland this week

Event guide September 6th-12th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

‘When you fall in love with someone, you’re laughing more than you’re eating’

Playwright Oisín Kearney on his middle name, inspiration and falling in love

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Alison Spittle, FeliSpeaks and 21 other attention-grabbing shows to keep an eye out for

This year’s festival is a great opportunity to sample the huge range of theatre, comedy, spoken word, dance, music and more being made in Ireland – plus some international treats too

The Revenger’s Tragedy: ‘I love the idea that there’s a Jacobean revenge tragedy inside each bedroom rapper’s head’

Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: +353 Presents: The Revenger’s Tragedy gives a drill update to a restored classic of Jacobean theatre

Pea Dinneen: ‘Raising Her Voice was born out of frustration at seeing myself reflected nowhere in the Irish theatrical canon’

The trans artist Pea Dinneen’s Dublin Fringe Festival debut, an autobiographical show about gender, is also a reclamation of cultural space

Alison Spittle: ‘I’m treated more like a human being now I’ve lost weight’

After an illness last year, the comedian was advised to lose weight. Her new show BIG explores her relationship with her body before and after, and why no one should feel any shame for being ‘on the jabs’

A guide to Irish acts at Edinburgh Festival Fringe: From Rachel Galvo and Vittorio Angelone to Rosie O’Donnell and more

A wide range of Irish comedy, drama and dance acts will perform across the Edinburgh Festival Fringe line-up, including

FeliSpeaks: Life as a ‘black, Irish, queer culchie’

Felicia Olusanya, aka FeliSpeaks, has created a show with thisispopbaby for the Dublin Fringe, exploring what it is like to grow up as a ‘queer black Irish midlands culchie’

From LA to Dublin: ‘When people see my name, they expect a granny from Tipperary’

Vietnamese-Irish-American actor and writer Brigid Leahy moved from Los Angeles, California, to Dublin in 2014 to study at Trinity College

On the fifth anniversary of George Floyd’s death, why is Irish theatre still so white?

Despite calls for cultural change, black representation on the Irish stage is still years behind, but there are signs of improvement

Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival

Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’

Willa White: ‘Drugs removed all the stuff a seven-year-old kid should not have in their life’

Solvent abuse as a child sent the actor and comedian Willa White on a downward spiral. The Examination, his play with Brokentalkers, has helped to turn the past into a positive

Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century

The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director

Festivals in Ireland 2025: From Longitude to All Together Now - a guide to 80 of the best

From Brigit and Dublin Lunar New Year to Culture Night, Space Week and Cork Jazz Festival, here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year

The best theatre of 2024: Blessed are the risk-takers

Gambling on longer runs of unfamiliar work paid off in a gratifying number of cases. But Irish theatre still isn’t as inclusive as it should be

Terra dance artist Alessandra Azeviche: ‘What I connect with in Ireland is the oppression from the church within our bodies’

The Afro-Brazilian performer and teacher staged one of the hits of this year’s Dublin Fringe Festival. It’s part of a cultural journey

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

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024 award winners revealed

This year’s festival, which celebrated 30 years, hosted 74 events, 520 performances in 29 venues across the city involving more than 500 artists

Cortisol: A blurry exploration of love and loss in your 20s

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Sisters Megan and Shannon Haly star in this dizzying coming-of-age rollercoaster ride

First Trimester: On-stage sperm-donor interviews elicit touching discussions about parenting

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family

Baby: A breathtakingly vulnerable portrayal of a woman’s struggle with fertility issues

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

An Evening With Wee Daniel: A cute, charming portrayal of growing up nonbinary in Daniel O’Donnell’s Donegal

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Aoife Sweeney O’Connor, an impressive raconteur, intersperses personal narrative with confidently warbled original songs

Ready, Steady, David O’Doherty: An unexpected, cathartic set that leaves the audience in tears of laughter

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

Trouble Denim: An anarchic comedian adjusts to chaotic life on the road

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

Róisín El Cherif: An intimate, moving evening from a formidable voice for Palestine in Ireland

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: The Galway singer dedicates a show whose weight is lost on nobody to sharing other people’s stories

Sketcherella: This must be Dublin Fringe Festival’s funniest show

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Erin McGathy delivers a quadruple threat of singing, wicked comic chops, costume changes and interpretive writhing

This Boy Is Cracking Up: Killian Sundermann’s sold-out stand-up show is cathartic, relatable and funny

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

The Maestro & the Mosquita: Louis Lovett brings a bravura performance to this emotional journey

Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting

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’

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