Ahead of the return of the Netflix hit, here’s how we left things in the town of Hawkins

TV review: The Guy Fawkes story is simplified and stretched. Sparks do not fly

Imaginative new spins on old concerns take the stages this week

Brendan O’Connor’s Cutting Edge review: He’s a shrewd interviewer, but this week’s programme gets trivial quickly

TV review: If only the show went deeper, the family dynamics would be fascinating to watch

In Stacey Gregg’s new play, the forces that push us around are creatures of our own creation

RTÉ’s fly-on-the-car-crash documentary is a study of composure under pressure

The HIV infection rate in Ireland is twice the European average, thanks to shame and silence

The Dublin Theatre Festival closes with a swirl of music and dance performances

The renowned designer and frequent Druid collaborator Francis O’Connor onthe subtle art of stage design

Misery is like heroin in Louis Theroux’s new documentary: cheap, plentiful and easily available

The first hit of Snowfall goes straight for the glamour. The comedown can’t be far away

Everybody is talking but nobody is listening in Nina Raine’s intelligent, furious play

The sprawling, shape-shifting puzzle of Ulysses here becomes a series of theatrical parlour games

Vogue Williams will say anything to anybody. Who knows what could happen if she turned her attention to politics

TV Review: The loveable Lucy Kennedy tries living with the hateful Katie Hopkins

Review: The architect’s latest programme, The Big Build, has lots of storeys but little drama

Nina Raine should know. Her father, a critic, once told her: `Your business is not to be worrying about people’s feelings. Because(...)

There’s no other play quite like Rough Magic’s Melt right now

Anú’s latest show, which takes place in a clinical space, is impressive but not intimate

Here's our recommendations for what to see over the next few weeks

David Simon’s brilliantly made new drama about the rise of the US porn industry is not on a mission to titillate

Ollie West, child star of ‘Hamnet’ at the Dublin Theatre Festival, says theatre is ‘kind of like PE’

TV review: RTÉ’s new comedy features Pauline McLynn, fart jokes and undead parents

Acceptable Risk lays little on the line in this opening episode, but the plot could yet thicken

Culture Shock: The Fringe is getting bigger, but it doesn’t seem to be getting any better

Freedom sometimes comes without liberation in new documentary ‘Fallout’

Fleeing persecution, the Levin Brothers conceal their sex and identity, and grow into a vaudevillian act that wanders the world. T(...)

It’s the handover period between Dublin festivals this week as the Dublin Fringe Festival begins to wind up and the Dublin Theatre(...)

When people believe in nothing, they may turn to showbiz, argues Lucy McCormick’s New Testament trash cabaret. But the bigger ques(...)

Beneath the generic cat and mouse game is a picture of American masculinity and its fateful engine trouble

TV review: Another Philip K Dick adaptation, in this boom time for paranoia

The latest reviews including Birdy, Everything Now, Kicking All The Boxes, Raven Eyed and MDLSX

The latest show from the Dublin Fringe Festival

The Pat Kenny Show imagines the nation not as it could be, but as it is, an easily goaded, roiling mess

The walls in this small, over-extended production are built on weak foundations

Here is our selection of the best shows opening this weekend, and the best productions still running that we've seen so far

It’s hard to say how seriously RTÉ’s new show is taking its fashionable subject

The gimmick in Rellik is to tell a detective story in reverse. It’s not too late to back out now

Fringe review: Enter the offices of The Dublin Correspondænt and bring your controversial opinions

The Netflix series, which has celebrity guests fighting for a place, is in it for the long run

Tin Star plays merry havoc with chronology and character, but to no real consequence

Back review: The Peep Show duo are now a fully mature odd couple, prone to looking back, in Simon Blackwell's new comedy

This year’s fringe is packed with potential: here’s the ones we think will make the cut

In 1930s rural Ireland, Katie Roche is a young woman with notions. In 2017, this revival of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic has c(...)

Kris Nelson is cramming as much as possible into his final Dublin Fringe Festival

Hip-hop icons sound as fresh as ever on the Main Stage, while Bill Bailey tackles the DUP

London trio seem slightly awed by Stradbally’s response

There’s room for growing up, but Super Silly provide a heady mix

A world first for EP: half a giant golf ball of sound

The drugs drama returns with true stories that beggar belief

A singalong. A handclap. Even a new song ‘Feel it Again’ sounds vigorously familiar

On the boards: Abbey stages 1936 play by the oft-neglected Teresa Deevy, and Stefanie Preissner directs Margaret McAuliffe’s one-w(...)

For the Abbey’s new production of Teresa Deevy’s neglected classic, ‘Katie Roche’, the theatre turned to the trailblazing director(...)

Uta Frith tries to come up with some answers based on some deeply alarming interviews

Season finale: It’s the politics, cynicism and raw emotion that make this gripping TV

A new theatre show allows the audience to vote throughout. Would you make the right decisions?

To hell with humans; we’re on the terminators’ side, in NYT’s reboot of Karel Capek’s 1921 play

Bundling the gravity of sexual assault into the hokum of killer fog is a mistake

This week in the theatre

Peter Kosminsky’s four-part drama shows how. But what about the why?

Hell is other spoilers among a community of GoT watchers in Dublin

The latest TV import is a dark moral satire about what desperate people will do – but don’t let that stop you from digging in

The penultimate episode is so gripping you half expect to see yourself listed in the credits

TV review: Four telly superheroes join forces against a common enemy – our patience

This week at the theatre, you find robotic revolutions, a threatened Eden and other unlikely relationships.

TV review – No More Boys and Girls: Can Our Kids Go Gender Free? has some answers

The BBC’s new comedy looks like a medical marvel in the making

The beast sniffs out Jon’s Targaryen parentage in an emotional CGI encounter

Counting Sheep began life at the heart of the revolution on Ukraine’s Maidan. Is it more than radical tourism?

As the world threatens to spin apart, this year’s arts festival concentrates on what keeps it together – just about

Johnny Gogan’s biography of Hubert Butler finds this Irish George Orwell honoured by his intellectual inheritors

How long will it be before Jodie Whittaker’s A&E doctor is found out? Longer than it takes for the many implausibilities of Trust (...)

The long-hoped-for sequence of a screeching creature and burning soldiers feels weird

‘Diana In Her Own Words’ documentary shows a woman fascinated by media

Grease has got groove, it’s got feeling. But this unctuous performance is hardly slick

Issa Rae’s show grows more confident even as its heroine does not

Patrick Gale’s debut screen drama is based on the compromise of his own parents

Game of Thrones Season 7, Episode 3 Review: Free of the unwieldy fantasy books that inspired it, the show is thriving

The series adapted from Margaret Atwood’s novel has given birth to a real-world army

A lonely life is subsumed into this collaboration between Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh

Jane Campion’s superb detective drama returns to BBC

Charlie Fink and David Greig’s smart, subtle collaboration depicts a relationship, a separation and a hard act to follow

Against the Law review:: One interviewee was well informed about the Wolfenden committee because he was sleeping with the son of i(...)

Jimmy’s Hall, Tennessee Williams and some fresh Rivals

Jimmy Gralton was infamously deported from his own country for giving his community a space for dancing and revolutionary ideas. T(...)

Festival director Willie White says programme is about ‘keeping our momentum’

The Druid stalwart nearly gave up acting in the wake of DruidMurphy but he's kept working to improve himself and his art. “It’s li(...)

Who can you trust these days in war-torn, backstabbing, deeply divided Westeros?

The new musical jabs at some nerves – its vision of homelessness and hunger are not distant threats

Jason Bateman plays a straitlaced man who turns to crime in desperate times. Stop us if you’ve heard this one before ...

Sex and violins from Enda Walsh and Donnacha Dennehy, and Limerick’s own Les Mis

Mark O’Rowe’s unloved and long unpublished play has finally returned from the dark. Perhaps it might have stayed there

Kneehigh’s shipshape, fleet production comes closer to home at the Galway International Arts Festival

This BBC shows presents us with a crime and a detective that both need to be solved

Woyzeck and Schubert meet in a lambent, music-hall spectacle

The first episode of the new season arrives into a changed world and women are on the warpath

As the new season starts, here's the state of play in Westeros and beyond

Culture Shock: The Gate’s ‘Great Gatsby’ immerses the audience in alcohol, and not just in the play

At a bleak time to live in London, the Globe artistic director decided to base her farewell season around love