The Magic Glasses review: Excellent acting, direction and design. It’s just a shame about the script
George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy from 1913 is clearly a passion project for Conall Morrison, who is directing it at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. It can be hard to see why
Lewis Capaldi in Marlay Park: Charming and very funny. This is a moving show
CMAT opens Capaldi’s show with gorgeous, glittering, country-inflected pop songs
‘I’m learning Irish. I need to get comfortable with not being any good for a long time’
I can see echoes of Catalan education in my new Irish lessons conducted over a few pints
‘A stupid woman, miserable in appearance’: Doireann Ní Ghríofa leads us into a hospital’s haunting past
At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital
The Homecoming of Joseph Grace: Michael Glenn Murphy gives an impressive, deeply felt performance
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Deirdre Kinahan’s play follows an Irishman whose enlistment in the British army begins a life of loneliness and suffering
HouseWork review: A love letter and an elegy for the 1990s and a future Ireland that never quite arrived
Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music
Nick Cave at Malahide Castle review: Electrifying drift between intimate confession and apocalyptic revelation
The shamanic visionary continues to reinvent his back catalogue through haunting duets and a prowling, punky spirit
David Byrne at St Anne’s Park review: For Burning Down the House the sodden field becomes a communal jig
On record, the musician’s recent material can feel too keen to radiate positivity. Live, however, the songs are infectiously fun
I’ve told AI countless times to quit that servile tone, but it just starts snivelling
Just like Botox, the AI experience is frictionless, without a single wrinkle or jagged edge
‘I came to Ireland all guns blazing ... I didn’t know that was the least cool thing’
For The Whiteheaded Boy, at the Abbey, theatre director Ryan is drawing on the anarchic spirit of her Chicago past
Behind the scenes at Gravity & Other Myths: ‘So few people get to do what they love. I’ve won the lottery’
The Australian contemporary circus troupe are on their way to Cork Midsummer Festival. What’s it like to be on the road 300 days a year?
Doja Cat’s Dublin show feels as if it could go off the rails – but the star stays in complete control
Doja Cat proves herself a magnetic performer, dancing almost nonstop in Dublin’s 3Arena
Shard review: Utterly compelling, flawlessly performed portrayal of a disintegrating society
Theatre: Neill Fleming evokes real fear in Stewart Roche’s intricate, intellectually daring tale for our confused and troubling times
Sorry You Felt That Way review: A Rorschach test for the way you view love and relationships
Harry Butler’s complex play takes aim at therapy talk, consent, the politics of naming harm, and the perils of the blame game
Elysium Nevada review: Sharply written comedy with melancholy and menace under the surface
Theatre: Michael James Ford, Mark O’Regan and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh star in this revival of Barry McKinley’s play