Alan Davies in Dublin review: Confessions of a mature comic can be challenging
The QI star hits comedy pay dirt when he asks the audience which decade they are from
By Martin Doyle
Visions review: Eoghan Quinn’s play has a lot to say. But rarely has so much been asked of a lamp
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Derbhle Crotty and Ghaliah Conroy give especially strong performances, but Visions is weighed down by its symbolism
By Harry Higgins
4.48 Psychosis review: Marty Rea gives a riveting performance in Sarah Kane’s final play
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In a staging directed by Tom Creed, the actor makes someone depressingly isolated seem intimately real
Let Me In review: A brilliant premise, but this play ultimately feels underdeveloped
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Esosa Ighodaro is interested in the emotional reality of belonging to a country that doesn’t always seem to want you
Refuge review: A thrillingly weird opening becomes a true story from Ireland’s past
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In her new play, directed by Jim Culleton, Deirdre Kinahan focuses on the persecuted Palatines who arrived in Co Limerick
Zinc review: One man’s unusual history becomes a left-field meditation on identity and language
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel direct a multinational, plurilingual cast in their adaptation of David Van Reybrouck’s book
Without Distinction of Sex review: A cautious approach to what should be a radical call for change
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Veronica Coburn asks what happened to the promises about women’s place in the State. But her demands are disappointingly modest
Rebellious Hope review: Seven dancers in search of connection with their audience
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Philip Connaughton’s impressive cast dismantle the divide between performer and spectator
A Moon for the Misbegotten review: Virtuoso performances power an often sublime Druid production
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Eileen Walsh, Lorcan Cranitch and Marty Rea excel under Garry Hynes’ direction
Lourdes! The Musical: An impressively complex tale of shame
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Xnthony is a long-time cabaret subversive. Rarely has he been sentimental
Meredith review: Dramatic temperature could be dialled up a notch in comic study of familial dysfunction
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The stakes never seem particularly high in Annabelle Comyn’s brisk 90-minute staging
Animals review: Blindboy’s full-scale theatrical debut is a bit of a loose baggy monster
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Abbey production has a thoughtful, accomplished first half, but then it loses focus and coherence
Heroes of Tomorrow review: What does ‘tarnished’ money do to art? Brokentalkers try to find some answers
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: What lingers is not grand declarations of artistic purpose but the quieter channels through which conviction travels
Cyclone review: Who was the real Billy Warren? Was he an IRA gunrunner? The picture is still hazy
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Anu’s portrait of the boxer has only a patchy historical record to draw on. It might benefit from more dramatic licence
Hysterically Shopping! To Some Sort of End review: This critique of consumer culture is a tough one to sell
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The actors put in a commendable effort, but the script of this pop opera lets them down
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
West Meath Gothic at Dublin Fringe is everything a fringe show should be
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: An old-time radio is Kate Finegan’s foil in this captivating aerial dance show
Saoirse at Dublin Fringe: A charming Gaeltacht musical with superb vocal performances
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: This Irish-language production hinges on a sweet coming-of-age romance at an embattled coláiste
Matilda the Musical in Dublin review: Still endlessly inventive, still an easy five stars
In the RSC’s production, a tireless cast bring a perfectly balanced mix of grotesquerie and goodness to Roald Dahl’s cautionary tale
By Sara Keating
Saving for a Helicopter at Dublin Fringe: Powerful one-woman account of hereditary illness
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Gráinne Curistan carries the audience through a series of linked anecdotes and emotional hairpin turns
By Tom Lordan
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