Cork Midsummer Festival 2026: Áine Ní Laoghaire’s one-woman show portrays the shifting role of women through their rise in house music

Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play

Theatre: In the Irish premiere of Lot Vekemans’s play, grieving parents care most about trying to dominate each other

Louise Lowe’s promenade piece, at the National Archives, portrays the shady history of the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Theatre: Killian Donnelly leads a cast that features some of the greatest voices associated with the production

In Eva O’Connor’s new play, worlds collide as a young couple struggle to understand why they’re so drawn to one another

Salome Jicia surmounts every vocal challenge of the role. She is well matched with Mario Chang, William Guanbo Su and Siobhan Stagg

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Created with Alice Ripoll, Puff is a homage to Brazil’s passinho urban dance

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Luail displays remarkable interconnectedness as tableaux combine into a profound interpretation of the nature of being alive

Theatre: Neill Fleming evokes real fear in Stewart Roche’s intricate, intellectually daring tale for our confused and troubling times

Matthew Malone and Caitríona Ennis star in Marc Atkinson Borrull’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s most political work