Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious

Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: The Rooms series continues with the story of a caretaker whose marriage has reached a moment of crisis

Theatre: The Love Island winner Amber Davies leads the cast of a production that has the auditorium on its side from the get-go

Theatre: Tim Scott’s tightly scripted, visually impressive, well-acted play struggles to match its subject’s self-awareness and intellectual depth

George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy from 1913 is clearly a passion project for Conall Morrison, who is directing it at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. It can be hard to see why

Claire Tighe’s staging at the Dublin theatre leans into the ruggedness of American rural life in the early 20th century

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: A shoegaze dream becomes a nightmare in Ray Scannell’s play, in which he also stars

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: The Everyman’s production puts the Metropole Hotel’s empty swimming pool to extremely effective use

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Aidan Moriarty and Julie Maguire feature in Cork Arts Theatre’s production of the Nick Payne play

Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts

At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Deirdre Kinahan’s play follows an Irishman whose enlistment in the British army begins a life of loneliness and suffering

Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music

Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play

Theatre: In the Irish premiere of Lot Vekemans’s play, grieving parents care most about trying to dominate each other

Louise Lowe’s promenade piece, at the National Archives, portrays the shady history of the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Theatre: Killian Donnelly leads a cast that features some of the greatest voices associated with the production

In Eva O’Connor’s new play, worlds collide as a young couple struggle to understand why they’re so drawn to one another