Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Amir Sabra, Imogen Alvares and Les Neish battle the elements in Megan and Jessica Kennedy’s visually arresting production

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos reclaims a collective identity

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Sandy Cuthbert, Janie Doherty and Andrea Madore skim around the stage as Ursula Burns performs a perfectly otherworldly score

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Theatre: Mai Ishikawa stars in Choy-Ping Ní Chléirigh-Ng’s play about a once famous Hong Kong actor who has withdrawn from public life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

Theatre: David Hayman and Fionn Foley play the dying sociology professor and his former student in this warm, funny, sad and relatable story

The audience becomes part of the story in Philip Connaughton’s retelling of the Aeneid, whose themes are superbly brought to life by the company’s dancers

Theatre: Emilie Hetland’s historical play delves into the relationships between Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and Mathilde Jacob

Irish National Opera’s coproduction, directed by Netia Jones, features the well-matched central pairing of Jennifer Davis and Ryan Capozzo

Bea’s latest comedy show deals with the ins and outs of Catholicism without once reverting to despair