Dublin Theatre Festival

Trifled: Bawdy, fun, line-crossing modern romance in which everyone needs saving

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Caitlin Magnall-Kearns’s play reminds us that we don’t know what’s going on behind closed doors

Darkmatter: A freaky, oozy horror dance

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The Dutch choreographer Cherish Menzo’s eventful piece has a frightening otherworldliness

Molly Sweeney: Brian Friel revival features fine performances and elegant staging

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Andrew Flynn’s production, with Genevieve Hulme-Beaman, Denis Conway and Manus Halligan, makes up for play’s slight staticness

Agreement: No play about the Good Friday negotiations has the right to be this much fun

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Owen McCafferty’s writing cuts through the Belfast peace talks’ seriousness to find levity in personal stakes and political bluster

Grace: A moving depiction of the complex way a girl with autism experiences life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Eleanor Walsh gives a delicate performance in Jody O’Neill’s gentle drama

Starjazzer: Affecting, innovative Anu adaptation marries a put-upon O’Casey heroine with her equally abused granddaughter

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Louise Lowe’s socially conscious production tells two stories at once, putting an unusual theatrical space to creative use

Amelia: A touching vision of where we – and theatre – will end up in the climate crisis

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Dee Roycroft’s ingenious play could be considered dystopian, but the pessimism doesn’t get everyone down

0800 Cupid: Hilarious, heartfelt musical theatre by one of Ireland’s rising stars

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Emer Dineen combines high-camp fantasy with a personal tale of family illness, grief and alienation

Grania: Lady Gregory’s epic love story takes on a new lease of life in its Abbey debut

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The thorns and snares of lust and envy are forces to be reckoned with in Caitríona McLaughlin’s reimagining

A bear walks into a rehearsal room: In Pan Pan’s new twist on The Winter’s Tale, the animal finally gets to tell the story

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Exit, Pursued by a Bear might sound absurd, but it opens up a world of dramatic connections

An Ant Called Amy: A magical, thought-provoking lesson in learning to slow down

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Julie Sharkey’s delightful performance treads carefully on the topic of sibling loss

Nobodaddy: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s new show delves into life, death, connection and loss in surprising, unpredictable ways

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Sam Amidon’s music serves as a lifeline through the changing tableaux of a sometimes hard-to-grasp production

Shades Through a Shade: Experimental theatre that pulls itself apart even as it transports you

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Gare St Lazare Ireland’s virtuosic, mesmeric ensemble brings texts by Beckett, Dante, Melville and others to life

Dream Factory review: Parody of society’s environmental and ethical self-flagellation is hilarious from start to finish

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: This original new musical has all the components for a hit

‘Tom Murphy would talk about the Irish institutions that drove him insane: the government, the church, the education system’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The playwright worked closely with Druid over many years. It gives special resonance to the company’s new production of The House

Motion and emotion: Watching as Michael Keegan-Dolan’s Nobodaddy takes shape at Teach Damhsa

Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: The acclaimed choreographer has teamed up with the musican Sam Amidon to create the festival’s opening show

Conor Pope joins the circus: I pine for the time a knife thrower drew blood from my neck

Can Conor Pope cut it as an all-singing, all-dancing, all-bouncing performer, with help from the professionals of Dream Factory? No on all counts

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

In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world

Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month

Trade/Mary Motorhead review: Compelling double bill reveals Emma O’Halloran’s impressive instinct for opera

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2024: Operas were originally plays by the writer and actor Mark O’Halloran

Dublin Theatre Festival unveils 2024 programme, with new shows from Druid, Teac Damsa, Anu, Thisispopbaby and more

Autumn event features more than 30 productions, with stories about family, identity, migration, climate, colonial legacies, and conflict and its resolution

Reunion review: Zinger of a play doesn’t flag for a second

Galway International Arts Festival 2024: With an ensemble of excellent actors, Mark O’Rowe’s new ensemble piece is a joy

‘It’s worth trying things. It’s worth trusting your gut. It’s worth going for it’

What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?

Thomas Kilroy’s death feels like the end of an era for Irish theatre

The writer was often mentioned as part of a ‘god tier’ of Irish playwrights, alongside Tom Murphy and, especially, his close friend Brian Friel

Theatre of 2023: A year split between the muted past and vigorous present

Productions of classics appeared to be aimed at long-time theatregoers, yet this year the Arts Council warned of a decline in young people attending plays

One Song: Histoire(s) du Théâtre IV review: An exhilarating, raucous meditation on grief, and on life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s creation, which closes this year’s festival, is a feat of endurance and an act of hope

The Guide: The events to see, the shows to book and the ones to catch before they end

The best music, art, literature and more coming your way between Saturday, October 14th, and Friday, October 20th

In Two Minds review: Inventively exposing the exhilaration and frustrations of living with bipolar disorder

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen McCartney nicely captures the emotional mess of sympathy, irritation and pain in this play by Joanne Ryan

Fall and Float review: A charming, playful, skilful show for young audiences, full of discovery, play and balloons

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The children at the Ark are audibly delighted and amused, gasping and giggling throughout Mónica Muñoz’s production

This Solution review: Choreography and carnality collide spectacularly

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: It lacks subtlety, but Shaun Dunne’s multimedia exploration of online pornography and real-life consequences is exhilarating

Powerful Trouble review: Junk Ensemble’s exploration is sharp in its message, wonderfully rambling in its telling

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The strength of this work lies in the complete experience rather than the individual elements

No Woman Is an Island review: A potted history of social attitudes to solitude that is not to be missed

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Róisín Stack continues to expand the grammar and techniques of her particular brand of performance art

Dublin Theatre Festival director Willie White: Why I had to make One Song this year’s closing show

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Miet Warlop’s relentless, increasingly frenetic mash-up of sport and rock music is an intense, thrilling experience

History Play review: Alive to revisionism and the unlit corners of the past

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Pan Pan’s nightmare is not that unsettling to awake from

Ironbound review: wit and humour in bleak portrayal of difficult life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Martyna Majok’s Polish characters are pitch-perfect

An Irish man signs up to make gay porn, then wants to change his mind. This Solution is about his experience

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Shaun Dunne hopes his play will resonate with people who have been in situations ‘that they haven’t been able to escape from’

Distillation review: This ode to our landscape will give you a new perspective on Ireland’s bogs, writes Eanna Ní Lamhna

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The smells of turf, smoke and mosses help convey the effect of our exploitation of our bogs over centuries

The Boy Who Talked to Dogs review: A challenging Irish childhood becomes a lively, eclectic stage show

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Bryan Burroughs is a lithe, commanding presence in this show

Quake review: An ingeniously staged argument for the value of community in a world of individuals

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Janet Moran’s play takes place in a Quaker meeting house on the point of being swept away by developers

She Was a Friend of Someone Else review: A clear-eyed commentary on the fight for abortion rights in Europe

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Gosia Wdowik’s understated production plays with questions of truth, pretence and shame that also resonate in Ireland

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