A blistering honesty defines the prose, a willingness to present the author in an unflattering light

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Esosa Ighodaro is interested in the emotional reality of belonging to a country that doesn’t always seem to want you

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: In her new play, directed by Jim Culleton, Deirdre Kinahan focuses on the persecuted Palatines who arrived in Co Limerick

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Veronica Coburn asks what happened to the promises about women’s place in the State. But her demands are disappointingly modest

The art in Margaret Corcoran’s new exhibition weaves together Etruscan bronzes, Dante’s Divine Comedy and horrific images from Gaza

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Sarah Kane’s final play is a dispatch from the frontline of human experience, according to Tom Creed and Marty Rea

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The actors put in a commendable effort, but the script of this pop opera lets them down

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Druid theatre company is staging Eugene O’Neill’s final work. It needs great acting to come to life

Abel Tesfaye’s Saturday-night Dublin show is a real spectacle. Oddly, though, there’s remarkably little sexual charisma

This elegiac play takes us across the Mullet peninsula to experience a disappearing part of our lives

It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy as stupidity or irrationality, but I’m open to hearing what the rational mind filters out

A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: City turns its history into theatre with huge, largely local cast. It’s a visually stunning spectacle