Irish theatre is bursting with energy – but youth is all these artists have in common

This emotionally affecting portrait of a teenage carer uses a single story to tell a devastating broader truth

Exploring nearly 50 years of state censorship, is director Tiago Rodrigues appalled by historic injustice or envious of a time when theatre was dangerous?

If they pay attention, this show will satisfy even the hungriest of audiences

Director Wayne Jordan restores the satirical and human bite to an opera of opulence and economy

There is a simplicity of setting and a purity of concept in this brooding dance show

In this clever and diverting show, the only immediate tangible human input comes from the audience

The Events is complex study of how a mass shooting affects a community and individuals

‘The Threepenny Opera’ began in disaster and grew into a triumph – a new Irish production hopes to burnish its agitprop credentials

The third and final play for Fishamble by Sean McLoughlin has a gathering storm that is simply dispelled

Germinal sets out to build up a world in a black-box space in this razor-sharp production

A debt-ridden middle-aged Irish couple plot to rob a bank in Desperate Optimists’ financial crisis revenge fantasy

Australian company Circa’s athletic theatre is humorous and dangerous

Eamon Morrissey’s New York encounter with Maeve Brennan forms the basis of this show, and it struggles to escape its source material

It’s not difficult to take sides in this ambiguous show

Seven shows, seven restaurants, and seven options; here’s a week’s worth of suggestions and great nights out for this year’s festival

60 years on and we're still crazy about Waiting for Godot, Beckett’s most famous play

With their new cabinet of wonders, the Australian company Circa beggar belief and transcend language

‘Dusk Ahead’ asks its dancers to step into the unknown – ‘they genuinely don’t know what is ahead’

Olwen Fouéré’s performance gives voice to the river in James Joyce’s unfathomable ‘Finnegans Wake’. It’s sink-or-swim time