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Confirmation: Xnthony stages his story as a confessional coming-of-age pop concert. Photograph: Brian Teeling

Confirmation review: Xnthony’s confessional coming-of-age concert

Sara Keating
September 19, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: This musical memoir of growing up gay in rural Ireland is sonically stirring but lacks focus

Seahorse: Mara, the pregnant heroine of Christiane O’Mahony play, isn’t sure she is ready to hand over her life to a “tiny dictator”. Photograph: Engin Akyurt

Seahorse review: A one-woman play that is at its best when at its funniest

Sara Keating
September 19, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: A few tweaks could give Christiane O’Mahony’s play a deservedly long life

Trial of the Centurys illustration by Ruan van Vliet

Trial of the Centurys review: An adorably awful comedy musical

Peter Crawley
September 19, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Trelliot, twin-brother pop stars who fell to earth, get their day in a cardboard court

Willie White, director of the Dublin Theatre Festival. Photograph: Dave Meehan/The Irish Times

Dublin Theatre Festival: 'It’s going to rock your world in a very gentle way'

Peter Crawley
September 19, 2018

Festival director Willie White on Arts Council rows and Ireland’s cultural deficits

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Sympathy for the devil: how DruidShakespeare got to the soul of Richard III

Peter Crawley
September 17, 2018

For director Garry Hynes, the desire to portray this tortured king goes back years

Lex Talionis: the cast are subtle, birdlike without overegging it. Photograph: Aoife Cahill

Lex Talionis review: A bird’s-eye view of revenge tragedy

Peter Crawley
September 17, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Excellent performances make Liam Heylin’s pithy new play fly

The Money: 12 players try to win the pot by agreeing how to spend it within an hour. Photograph: Steve Tanner

The Money review: Human nature on absorbing, infuriating display

Peter Crawley
September 17, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: What’s at stake in Kaleider’s ‘showgame’, cash or democracy?

Beat: Fionntán Larney’s excellent debut is a persuasive anatomy of toxic masculinity. Photograph: Ste Murray

Beat review: A sharp Dublin hip-hop drama for the ‘Hamilton’ generation

Peter Crawley
September 17, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Fionntán Larney’s debut is spry, considered and sophisticated

Foil, Arms & Hog: long-time Dublin Fringe Festival favourites

Craicling review: A sense of the absurd – and a lot of craic

Deirdre Falvey
September 17, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Foil, Arms & Hog are silly, inventive and genuinely very funny

Samira Elagoz’s story is an intimate one, but her performance is cool and detached. The overall effect is both very disturbing and immensely sad.

Cock Cock, Who’s There? review: The darkest parts of net dating culture

Sara Keating
September 15, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Why should a woman need safety procedures when encountering men she doesn’t know?

Caged: articulate with just a few awkward transitions upsetting the performance energy

Caged review: A swipe at objectification and violence against women

Michael Seaver
September 14, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Sickening testimonies of abuse set against slick aerial dance and song

Running + Walking In The Phoenix Park: doesn’t so much go nowhere fast as saunter around in circles at a gentle trot

Running + Walking In The Phoenix Park review: Offbeat jogging show runs out of breath

Mick Heaney
September 14, 2018

Dublin Fringe: Multimedia drama on traversing Dublin’s municipal space has absorbing elements but eventually wears thin

Everything Can Be Dismantled: One humble utopian vision emerged: “It’s great,” somebody said of the improvised shelter. “Rent-free.”

Everything Can Be Dismantled review: a rehearsal for change amid the housing crisis

Peter Crawley
September 14, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: During yet another housing flashpoint, a new collective asks us to imagine alternatives by trying out alternative structures

Kiss Kiss Slap Slap: A melon in a bucket caught in a cycle of being smashed, cared for and recovered shows the importance of looking out for each other

Kiss Kiss Slap Slap review: A despairing panorama of rape culture

Michael Seaver
September 13, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Black humour, clever imagery and caustic physicality are deployed side-by-side

Appropriate: Initially satirical, Sorcha gives a winningly tongue-in-cheek account of how she fought off the competition for her man

Appropriate review: Skirting cliché while offering uneasy truths

Helen Meany
September 13, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Planning a wedding is like preparing for war, Sorcha declares, and we believe her

Ireland’s Call: Written and performed by John Connors, the story is a familiar one

Ireland's Call review: A stark anthem to life on the margins

Mick Heaney
September 13, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: John Connors lends a charismatic presence to his polemical portrait of urban deprivation

Madhouse: PJ Gallagher’s mother cared for several men with schizophrenia. Photograph: Rory Murphy

Madhouse review: PJ Gallagher’s gently comic coming-of-age story

Peter Crawley
September 12, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Who are we to stigmatise mental disorder, the comedian asks

Split Ends: Lauren Larkin creates a mini-portrait of four generations of Dublin women. Photograph: Cáit Fahey

Split Ends review: Deft comic timing, but the script could do with a trim

Helen Meany
September 12, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Lauren Larkin delves into the intimacies of the hairdressing salon

Dreamgun Film Reads: the Fringe Binge is like a white-knuckle version of the Mercury Theater live radio broadcasts. Photograph Ste Murray

Dreamgun Film Reads – The Fringe Binge review: Merciless, hilarious

Peter Crawley
September 12, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Blockbuster scripts get rapid-fire rewrites and crackling unrehearsed performances

Dublin Fringe Festival 2018. Fragments. PR photo by Carrie Lewis, Design Jane McCormick.

Fragments review: Beautiful, well-judged dance

Michael Seaver
September 12, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Jessie Keenan’s choreography questions how we read movement

Brendan Galileo for Europe: Fionn Foley tells performs multiple roles with comic gusto. Photograph: Cáit Fahey

Brendan Galileo for Europe review: A frenetically enjoyable one-man show

Mick Heaney
September 12, 2018

Dublin Fringe Festival: Fionn Foley is irresistible as an anti-establishment politician

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