Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: City turns its history into theatre with huge, largely local cast. It’s a visually stunning spectacle

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Hybrid form soon becomes cumbersome, but operatic adaptation of Krapp’s Last Tape still intrigues

Theatre: David Ireland’s play, first staged in 2018, unfolds in knockabout style but suffers from weaknesses in characterisation

Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’

Theatre: Performer tells six loosely connected stories about her life on a bare stage with absorbing results

Theatre: Everybody is ready to burst out singing during performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with darker nuances

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Tarik O’Regan’s eclectic musical expression powers adaptation of Tóibín novella

The supernatural lurks during a strained family reunion, but never coalesces into a haunting spectacle

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Brú Theatre’s promenade production sends Pádraic Ó Conaire’s characters scattering through the city

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