The House: Druid’s bold Tom Murphy revival dives into an obsessed mind
Theatre: Garry Hynes stages daring production of drama set during 1950s summer fortnight when locals return from living abroad
Trouble Denim: An anarchic comedian adjusts to chaotic life on the road
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Shane Daniel Byrne’s swirling new stand-up show riffs on the milestones of his first year as a full-time comic
Julius Caesar Variety Show: An anxious comedy about a theatre industry refusing to evolve
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In aiming to unsettle, Joy Nesbitt’s satire relies on less plausible devices
It Was Paradise, Unfortunately: A stunningly clever investigation of theatre as a trans art form
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s delivery makes traumatic revelations come across as funnily offbeat
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
Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
Television: A high-wattage cabaret with enough power to imagine something new
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: SexyTadhg’s ingenious show meditates on concerns about authentic selves while the outside world beams into people’s minds
A Good Room: A terrace house becomes the last decent comedy club in town
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Cian Jordan and Allie O’Rourke share their journeys into stand-up in this zippy but fraught comedy show
Circle Mirror Transformation: Wonderful presentation of the before and after of theatre at the Gate
Theatre: Róisín McBrinn has created a magnificent Irish production of Annie Baker’s sublime play
Gate Theatre director Róisín McBrinn: ‘A big part of what I’m trying to do is ensure as many voices as possible are given space and power’
After the success of Fun Home, the head of the Dublin venue is staging the Irish premiere of Circle Mirror Transformation
The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
Liam McCarthy: ‘Theatre is weird. The problem is that it’s all about public humiliation’
Playwright nervously awaits the opening of Jilly Morgan’s Birthday Party, his reimagining of a Chekhov story now set in Limerick
Mother and Child review: A family reunion staged as a psychological drama
Theatre: This production has none of that oppressive intimacy; even as mother and child both discover they are sad products of their upbringings
Na Peirsigh/Persians review: A mind-numbing report from a miserable war
Theatre: Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s translation of the tragedy by Aeschylus finds parallels with Irish history but sometimes succumbs to information overload
The Making of Mollie review: Anna Carey’s book is now a razor-sharp suffragette stage comedy
Theatre: In Sarah Baxter’s production at the Ark in Dublin, the story unfolds in an ingenious slapstick version of Dublin