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
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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
‘This is a big achievement for me, to see the audience crying and talking about their parents’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The acclaimed director Mario Banushi on his play Mami, a follow-up to his hit Romance Familiare trilogy
Sarah Kane’s 4.48 Psychosis: ‘It’s not for everyone. But I feel very alive when I watch it’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Sarah Kane’s final play is a dispatch from the frontline of human experience, according to Tom Creed and Marty Rea
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
‘Lourdes is like a holy Blackpool or divine Las Vegas. We’re not in angelic land’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend
The secret life of the man who stood on O’Connell Street in Dublin for 40 years
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well
Event guide: Dublin Theatre Festival, Denise Chaila and the other best things to see in Ireland in the week ahead
September 19th-25th, 2026: Our pick of music, art, theatre and more coming your way this week
A Moon for the Misbegotten: ‘When people are ready for this play, it is a balm on them’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Druid theatre company is staging Eugene O’Neill’s final work. It needs great acting to come to life
Tanz: Florentina Holzinger’s ‘arresting and shocking’ show
Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Controversial performance artist on her show Tanz, walkouts and her creative philosophy
Ruth Negga withdraws from Dublin Theatre Festival play at the Gaiety
Actor was scheduled to star in The Goat Exchange production of Radio Bette in September
‘What’s the most exciting theatre in the world, and how can Irish audiences experience it?’
Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition
Matthew Broderick to star at Abbey as theatre also announces ‘provocative’ Blindboy production
Animals and the new Eoghan Quinn play Visions will run at the Abbey as part of Dublin Theatre Festival 2026
Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng: ‘I’m interested in outsiders, that feeling of in-between, and trying to find peace in that’
The Madonna of Asia, Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s new play, is concerned with the dark side of Hong Kong’s golden age of music and film in 1980s and 1990s
Michael Patrick, pioneering Irish actor, dies from motor neuron disease at 35
Actor was first with a disability to play Shakespeare’s Richard III on the island of Ireland, at the Lyric Theatre in Belfast in 2024
More than 80 Irish festivals to watch out for in 2026
Here’s our round-up of cultural showcases to catch this year, from TradFest and Electric Picnic to West Cork Literary Festival and more
Can a theatre critic make a living in Ireland in 2026?
Theatre critics are essentially hobbyists, criticism something to be squeezed between the demands of other work
The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
We may be optimistic about a place that’s far more hospitable, where new writing could be the norm, not the exception
The Leap, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is an imaginative dive into the emotional world of a preteen
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gavin Kostick’s play is Fishamble’s first for young audiences
Pieces of a Woman, at Dublin Theatre Festival: Knockout performances anchor old-school melodrama
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Kata Wéber’s play for Poland’s TR Warszawa company features a magnificent cast
Three Sisters at Dublin Theatre Festival: Saoirse-Monica Jackson gives a sharp turn in a fresh take on Chekhov
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s honed adaptation shifts towards surreal comedy
Caligula, at Dublin Theatre Festival, resonates as a meditation on tyranny and resistance
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: This Ukrainian take on Camus’s play is a compelling political statement rather than convincing drama
My Right Foot, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a masterclass in humour, honesty and resilience
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Michael Patrick is stunning as he chronicles his motor neuron disease
Dublin Jack, at Dublin Theatre Festival, looks behind sexual scandal to expose hypocrisy
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Conor Mitchell and Belfast Ensemble dramatise the life of John Saul
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