Harry Butler’s complex play takes aim at therapy talk, consent, the politics of naming harm, and the perils of the blame game

Theatre: Michael James Ford, Mark O’Regan and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh star in this revival of Barry McKinley’s play

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Trocks’ technique used to be rough around the edges. Now the laughs come from impeccably timed moves and gestures

Theatre: Mai Ishikawa stars in Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s play about a once famous Hong Kong actor who has withdrawn from public life

Theatre: Laura Brady and Jessica Dunne Perkins play pop superfans in 1960s Dublin

Cork comedy podcasters deliver high-octane show at the 3Olympia

Theatre: Shane Mac an Bhaird’s play leans towards comedy. But the zany script and bleak setting call for more farcical energy

Some of Aoife Dunne’s jokes don’t escape the gravitational pull of cliche. But she also offers sharp insights into millennial womanhood

Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation

Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry

Colin Murphy’s densely researched play, directed by Samantha Cade, centres on rival approaches to tackling disease in 19th-century London

Theatre: A musical misstep is among a series of troubling aspects about The Ballad of Johnny & June