Dublin Theatre Festival

Radio Bette, minus Ruth Negga, opens Dublin Theatre Festival with deadpan drollery

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: As Bette Davis in All About Eve, Marcus Amaglo has an air of imperious dignity while also bringing out the ageing star’s vulnerability

‘Lourdes is like a holy Blackpool or divine Las Vegas. We’re not in angelic land’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend

The secret life of the man who stood on O’Connell Street in Dublin for 40 years

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well

Event guide: Dublin Theatre Festival, Denise Chaila and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead

September 19th-25th, 2026: Our pick of music, art, theatre and more coming your way this week

A Moon for the Misbegotten: ‘When people are ready for this play, it is a balm on them’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Druid theatre company is staging Eugene O’Neill’s final work. It needs great acting to come to life

Tanz: Florentina Holzinger’s ‘arresting and shocking’ show

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Controversial performance artist on her show Tanz, walkouts and her creative philosophy

Ruth Negga withdraws from Dublin Theatre Festival play at the Gaiety

Actor was scheduled to star in The Goat Exchange production of Radio Bette in September

‘What’s the most exciting theatre in the world, and how can Irish audiences experience it?’

Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition

Matthew Broderick to star at Abbey as theatre also announces ‘provocative’ Blindboy production

Animals and the new Eoghan Quinn play Visions will run at the Abbey as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2026

Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng: ‘I’m interested in outsiders, that feeling of in-between, and trying to find peace in that’

The Madonna of Asia, Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s new play, is concerned with the dark side of Hong Kong’s golden age of music and film in 1980s and 1990s

Michael Patrick, pioneering Irish actor, dies from motor neuron disease at 35

Actor was first with a disability to play Shakespeare’s Richard III on the island of Ireland, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2024

More than 80 Irish festivals to watch out for in 2026

Here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year, from TradFest and Electric Picnic to West Cork Literary Festival and more

Can a theatre critic make a living in Ireland in 2026?

Theatre critics are essentially hobbyists, criticism something to be squeezed between the demands of other work

The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage

We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception

The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteen

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiences

Pieces of a Woman, at Dublin Theatre Festival: Knockout performances anchor old-school melodrama

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Kata Wéber’s play for Poland’s TR Warszawa company features a magnificent cast

Three Sisters at Dublin Theatre Festival: Saoirse-Monica Jackson gives a sharp turn in a fresh take on Chekhov

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s honed adaptation shifts towards surreal comedy

Caligula, at Dublin Theatre Festival, resonates as a meditation on tyranny and resistance

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama

My Right Foot, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a masterclass in humour, honesty and resilience

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Michael Patrick is stunning as he chronicles his motor neuron disease

Dublin Jack, at Dublin Theatre Festival, looks behind sexual scandal to expose hypocrisy

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Conor Mitchell and Belfast Ensemble dramatise the life of John Saul

Be Careful, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is unflinching, sharp and in your face

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Mallika Taneja’s play is a biting satire on a mindset that situates family and societal honour in women

Bán, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a brave, brilliantly acted ensemble piece

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The gifted Carys D Coburn reworks The House of Bernarda Alba in grim 1980s Ireland

The Maker at Dublin Theatre Festival: A family show infused with charm and curiosity

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: The Maker’s imagination and immediacy will appeal to very young viewers, its philosophical riddles to older children

Leaves, at Dublin Theatre Festival, reflects on care, growth, death and intelligence of nature

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: production is more like a meditation on tender ecosystem of connection than an adaptation

Deaf Republic, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is daring, intricate and, above all, beautiful

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Dead Centre turn Ilya Kaminsky’s poetry into complex, layered, hallucinatory drama

In Her Father’s Voice, at Dublin Theatre Festival, emotions run high and understanding is in short supply

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Shane O’Reilly’s play confronts the ethics of cochlear-implant surgery for a deaf child

Konstantin, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an intelligent, quick and cracklingly alive take on Chekhov

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This inventive play asks what happens after The Seagull’s gunshot

Poor, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a show destined to keep returning and keep selling out

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Katriona O’Sullivan’s memoir becomes a crowd-pleasing play starring Aisling O’Mara and Hollie Lawlor

The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr

Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit

The Quiet Man, at Dublin Theatre Festival, gets bogged down as it tries some reverse Paddywhackery

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: John Breen and Mikel Murfi set out to reclaim the short story that became John Ford’s John Hinde vision of Ireland

The Sound Inside, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a play of haunting power

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Madeleine Potter and Eric Sirakian shine in Adam Rapp’s Tony-nominated story

I Fall Down, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is joyful, considered and very funny

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gina Moxley’s ‘restoration comedy’ frankly contemplates women’s erasure in the official history of art

Playwright Carys D Coburn on Bán: ‘Can we be real to one another and be family? Often the answer is no’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Coburn’s prowess is in addressing the space between what we say and what we know

This Hamlet, the opening show of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025, is both deeply serious and a riot of fun

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Teatro La Plaza’s questioning production is performed by a cast with Down syndrome

‘This was not the way my parents grew up. People were not proud of their deaf children’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Her Father’s Voice, Shane O’Reilly’s new play, tackles cochlear implants and attitudes to the deaf community

Rébecca Chaillon: ‘Black women in theatre, I don’t see them. Maybe they are cleaning the toilets’

One of French theatre’s greatest risk-takers is bringing her play Whitewashing to Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Dyslexia shaped me. I’m always thinking two steps ahead’

The Derry Girls star on life after the Channel 4 hit; her marriage to Hector Barbour, aka DJ Denis Sulta; and how dyslexia has shaped her

Hamlet starring actors with Down syndrome: ‘It profoundly reconfigures the meaning of to be or not to be?’

Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin

The Guide: Dublin Theatre Festival, Dermot Kennedy, Stand Up for Gaza and the other best things to see in Ireland

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