Motion and emotion: Watching as Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy takes shape at Teach Damhsa
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
Can Conor Pope cut it as an all-singing, all-dancing, all-bouncing performer, with help from the professionals of Dream Factory? No on all counts
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Autumn event features more than 30 productions, with stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, and conflict and its resolution
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 writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel
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
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s creation, which closes this year’s festival, is a feat of endurance and an act of hope
The best music, art, literature and more coming your way between Saturday, October 14th, and Friday, October 20th
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen McCartney nicely captures the emotional mess of sympathy, irritation and pain in this play by Joanne Ryan
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The children at the Ark are audibly delighted and amused, gasping and giggling throughout Mónica Muñoz’s production
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: It lacks subtlety, but Shaun Dunne’s multimedia exploration of online pornography and real-life consequences is exhilarating
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The strength of this work lies in the complete experience rather than the individual elements
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Róisín Stack continues to expand the grammar and techniques of her particular brand of performance art
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s relentless, increasingly frenetic mash-up of sport and rock music is an intense, thrilling experience
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Martyna Majok’s Polish characters are pitch-perfect
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Shaun Dunne hopes his play will resonate with people who have been in situations ‘that they haven’t been able to escape from’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The smells of turf, smoke and mosses help convey the effect of our exploitation of our bogs over centuries
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Bryan Burroughs is a lithe, commanding presence in this show
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developers
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Gosia Wdowik’s understated production plays with questions of truth, pretence and shame that also resonate in Ireland
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: In Nancy Harris’s bold new play, creativity becomes a way to deal with loneliness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen Egan’s experiences, which form the spine of the show, are relayed to poignant effect
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters
The actor has teamed up with Gemma Dunleavy for He Sits of a Tuesday, set in the working-class Dublin community where they grew up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Production designer Francis O’Connor powerfully realises the updating of the story by Jack Furness
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Questions arise as soon as each audience member puts on a virtual-reality headset and earphones, isolating us from each other
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: There is no way of predicting the shape of this play’s second half. The pay-off is worth the pivot
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The charismatic polymath’s ability to occupy the stage is what really establishes his debut play as a piece of theatre
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Eugene O’Brien’s fanciful story of the friendship between a rural bouncer and a legendary singer is brought to life by Stephen Jones’ vivid performance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Deirdre Kinahan’s fine two-hander groans with dramatic commentary on where the nation has been and where it has ended up
Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Brazil’s political journey is palpable in Alice Ripoll’s gloriously messy, release-valve choreography
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Both actors are equally impressive in this all-ages offering from Galway’s Branar
Erica Murray’s new play drops into the lives of four women connected by unexpected circumstances
A selection of the finest spots for dining, whether it’s a quick meal before the show or something more leisurely late in the evening
Half a dozen figures from the arts world reveal what they require to realise their full potential as creators
The violinist and composer worked with director David Pountney and Portuguese visual artist Hugo Canoilas for a 20-minute piece with ‘its own identity, its own world and its own visual experience’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: This year’s opening show, from Brazil, is a thrilling dance about a young generation facing off against a darkening world
The best movies, music, art and more coming your way September 23rd-29th
The playwright’s newest offering Somewhere Out There You may play to the rhythms of a romantic comedy, but it’s just as interested in family dynamics
Gemma Tipton offers a beginner’s guide to taking up a new cultural pursuit
Willie White of Dublin Theatre Festival holds forth on the current state of the capital’s nightlife, and its need for a new municipal venue
This year’s festival blends stage with cinema, dance, installation and more – with lots of €10 admissions
Winner will be announced at an awards ceremony celebrating the best productions of 2022
Cultural festivals are back in full force this year - and this guide doesn’t even include all of them
Archive of award-winning theatre company now digitised at University of Galway library
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: An exquisite escape for young audiences from the noise of modern life
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Disturbing and demanding drama echos a resurgent European right-wing
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: In expanding the story to include the recent pandemic, Brokentalkers don’t quite illuminate the novel that is their original source
Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Structured like a Ted talk, this tricksy performance tackles identity and culture in the internet age
Crosswords & puzzles to keep you challenged and entertained
Inquests into the nightclub fire that led to the deaths of 48 people
How does a post-Brexit world shape the identity and relationship of these islands
Weddings, Births, Deaths and other family notices