Soft God by Emma Martin – Powerful performances in a dance show where it helps to embrace the chaos
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful
Abbey Theatre
Aidan Turner: ‘I’d be sitting in the trailer going, ‘God Almighty. Can you just give me a cop drama?’’
The Dublin actor says the main trick to being a professional is doing the work and learning the lines. ‘And then just staying as healthy and as fit as you can. There’s no excuse’
My Fierce Ignorant Step review – 60 hypnotic, exhilarating minutes
Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos reclaims a collective identity
Do You Come from Gomorrah? review: Five stars for Frank McGuinness’s startlingly revelatory play
Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry
The Irish Times view on The Plough and the Stars: a century-old Irish classic
The controversy in 1926 was a reminder that holding a mirror to your country can generate as much condemnation as gratitude
The Plough and the Stars review: Abbey’s centenary staging features fine performances but doesn’t always gel
Tom Creed directs a cast led by Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Kate Gilmore, Michael Glenn Murphy, Thommas Kane Byrne and Mary Murray
‘It’s the All-Ireland final of theatre’: The Plough and the Stars, 100 years on from its riotous first run
Frank McNally sits in on a new production of Seán O’Casey’s play and revisits the ‘chaotic scenes’ that greeted it in 1926
Fair Deal review: Aislín McGuckin holds nothing back as a pantomime monster for the ages
Una McKevitt’s play turns into a riotous black farce. It’s a tonal shift that pays off
‘Wuthering Heights’ star Alison Oliver: ‘I really didn’t imagine a film career for myself’
The Irish actor stars alongside Margot Robbie and Jacob Elordi in Emerald Fennell’s Emily Brontë adaptation
Dublin City Council seeks €114m in funding to kickstart Taoiseach’s taskforce plan
City centre rejuvenation to focus on vacant and derelict buildings and sites
Fair Deal writer Una McKevitt: Buying a home is like ‘going to Mars – it takes up a huge part of people’s lives’
Set over a single night in a family home, Fair Deal uses a dispute around care and inheritance to ask not who gets the house, but what the house has already done to the people inside it
Stage IRA Man – Frank McNally on the real and pretend 1916 Rising of actor Arthur Shields
He went to the Abbey Theatre to collect a rifle hidden under the stage and join the fighting
Event guide: The Crucible, Maria Somerville and other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
February 7th-13th, 2026: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way
‘As Irish as the pigs of Drogheda’ – Frank McNally on rise and fall of street singer Mary Connolly
After the Easter Rising, her patriotic ballads struck a chord with the public
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