Dublin Theatre Festival announces Róise Goan as new artistic director
Former head of Dublin Fringe Festival will take over from Willie White as artistic director and chief executive in February 2025
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Murmur: The young audience gasp and laugh, mesmerised by this playful, inventive performance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Camiel Corneille weaves together sound and movement as he builds physical characters and imaginary worlds
Content: Hate speech, revenge porn and an exploding dog – A gripping portrayal of the human cost of sanitising social media
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ross Dungan’s darkly comic play blends live illustration and multimedia with the theatrical to explore the disturbing world of content moderation
Global Desires: Flashes of brilliance, but this performance art leaves a sense of disruption and discomfort
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Outlandish Theatre’s nine performers explore what happens when desire rubs up against an unpleasant reality
The Jesus Trilogy: Beautifully textured adaptation captures all the sadness and mystery of JM Coetzee’s novels
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Annabelle Comyn’s evocative production, featuring Fergal McElherron and Elaine O’Dwyer, makes clever, convincing choices
Find Your Eyes: ‘Oh Lord, will it be like this all the way through?’ we ask at first. But this tricky piece rewards surrender
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In this unclassifiable performance piece, Benji Reid creates a seductive amalgam of theatre, choreography and photography
Freefalling: A wild, extraordinary story that you couldn’t make up
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Georgina Miller’s account of her recent life mixes daredevil adrenaline with humour and a lightness of touch
Safe House: Enda Walsh’s new work is an oppressively desolate song cycle
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Kate Gilmore is impressive as a vulnerable young woman, but parts of the staging overwhelm her character
Exit, Pursued by a Bear: Pan Pan’s loose retelling of Shakespeare contains flashes of real artistry
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Manuel Zschunke is particularly compelling as the paranoid king Leontes in an uneven reimagining of The Winter’s Tale
Breaking: Two characters, four actors and a rotating series of scenes, emotions and meanings
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: In Amy Kidd’s play, actors of different genders, races, backgrounds and accents portray the same unhappy couple
Guest Host Stranger Ghost: A genuinely original high concept gets its first outing
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This nomadic play’s use of other productions’ sets mirrors the insecure tenures so many young people are forced to put up with
Sandpaper on Sunburn: A humorous, compelling portrayal of what it means to be neurodivergent
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: David Horan’s family drama dives head first into the topic of autism
Home, Boys, Home: Dermot Bolger’s heartbreaking, witty script is also a powerful commentary on family, society and morality
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ray Yeates, Fionnuala Gygax and Donna Anita Nikolaisen star in the final part of a trilogy that began with In High Germany
Trifled: Bawdy, fun, line-crossing modern romance in which everyone needs saving
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Caitlin Magnall-Kearns’s play reminds us that we don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors
Darkmatter: A freaky, oozy horror dance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The Dutch choreographer Cherish Menzo’s eventful piece has a frightening otherworldliness
Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant staging
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticness
Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster
Grace: A moving depiction of the complex way a girl with autism experiences life
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Eleanor Walsh gives a delicate performance in Jody O’Neill’s gentle drama
Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use
Amelia: A touching vision of where we – and theatre – will end up in the climate crisis
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Dee Roycroft’s ingenious play could be considered dystopian, but the pessimism doesn’t get everyone down
0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising stars
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Emer Dineen combines high-camp fantasy with a personal tale of family illness, grief and alienation
Grania: Lady Gregory’s epic love story takes on a new lease of life in its Abbey debut
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The thorns and snares of lust and envy are forces to be reckoned with in Caitríona McLaughlin’s reimagining
A bear walks into a rehearsal room: In Pan Pan’s new twist on The Winter’s Tale, the animal finally gets to tell the story
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Exit, Pursued by a Bear might sound absurd, but it opens up a world of dramatic connections
An Ant Called Amy: A magical, thought-provoking lesson in learning to slow down
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Julie Sharkey’s delightful performance treads carefully on the topic of sibling loss
Nobodaddy: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new show delves into life, death, connection and loss in surprising, unpredictable ways
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Sam Amidon’s music serves as a lifeline through the changing tableaux of a sometimes hard-to-grasp production
Shades Through a Shade: Experimental theatre that pulls itself apart even as it transports you
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Gare St Lazare Ireland’s virtuosic, mesmeric ensemble brings texts by Beckett, Dante, Melville and others to life
Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finish
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This original new musical has all the components for a hit
‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House
Motion and emotion: Watching as Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy takes shape at Teach Damhsa
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show
Conor Pope joins the circus: I pine for the time a knife thrower drew blood from my neck
Can Conor Pope cut it as an all-singing, all-dancing, all-bouncing performer, with help from the professionals of Dream Factory? No on all counts
Dublin Theatre Festival is losing its director. What has Willie White achieved since 2012?
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Trade/Mary Motorhead review: Compelling double bill reveals Emma O’Halloran’s impressive instinct for opera
Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: Operas were originally plays by the writer and actor Mark O’Halloran
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