Theatre: The dialogue may feel leaden, but Max Webster’s production more than compensates

Theatre: In Sarah Baxter’s production at the Ark in Dublin, the story unfolds in an ingenious slapstick version of Dublin

Theatre: Brokentalkers are aware they occupy a rarefied zone. This encounter between Gary Keegan and Danny O’Mahony enjoyably sends up their approach

Theatre: Glenn Slater’s lyrics and the book by Cheri and Bill Steinkiller provide a solid skeleton on which to hang characters’ conflicts

Judging by the loudness of the laughs throughout, Offaly comic Delamere has still very much got it

Theatre: Anne-Marie Casey’s production wraps itself around audience like comforting, hand-quilted blanket

The Dublin theatre teams up with Sydney Theatre Company to celebrate the underperformed Austrian great Thomas Bernhard

The Gaiety Theatre’s new production makes plain the limitations of a play that barely allows its title character an original thought

The actor had the forethought to record Krapp’s early tapes 12 years ago. What a pleasure to see, and hear, the result in the intimacy of Project Arts Centre

Theatre: Actors wisely choose not to reinvent too much, though one gag suggests show can still offend

Theatre: The writer and director transforms an unrecognisable Peacock venue into the Battle of Dublin in 1922

Dance: This new work by Lucia Kilger, created with Lina Andonovska and Ria Rehfuss, values coexistence over second-to-second interaction

Theatre: Lynne Parker’s adept direction balances the verbal sparring and snappy lines with a sense of wasted lives and lost hopes

Dance: Minseach’s unsettled structure reflects Davitt’s own hazy identity as an artist

Theatre: Driven by very attractive singing and by Anth Kaley’s musical direction, the pace is helter skelter

Theatre: Show offers a golden ticket reinforcing seasonal message that goodness will be its own reward

Theatre: Roddy Doyle’s tale gets a fitting stage adaptation from Fionn Foley – and splendid cast have a blast making it sing

Theatre: This pantomime’s energetic cast seize the production’s comic opportunities at every turn

Theatre: Production will leave young audience members speculating about stage magic all the way home

Theatre: At the Abbey, Tom Creed recasts Brendan Behan’s prison comedy entirely with female and nonbinary actors. The effect is teasingly ambiguous

Theatre: Claire Tighe’s delightful retelling brings the pages of the classic story to life, making for an exceptional experience for the audience

Theatre: The musical's narrative focuses more on life off the battlefield before enlistment than on life in the trenches

Puccini’s opera is full of antics – and Orpha Phelan gets them all right, from joyous mayhem to emotional darkness

Theatre: The Gate’s fast-paced Christmas show, relocated to early 20th-century Dublin, will entertain parents as well as children

Celia Sandoya owns title role in Morgann Runacre-Temple’s staging, which demonstrates Ballet Ireland’s evolution

Colin Murphy’s script explores the 1933 legal battle to allow US publication of James Joyce’s Ulysses

Theatre: Devlin cleverly creates workplace mundanity and half-promise of a good time

Theatre: Leon Butler and Peter Power expand their art-making by integrating dance by Rosie Stebbing and Robyn Byrne with an immersive digital installation

Marking the 30th anniversary of Cork City Ballet Company, this is a work of extravagant display

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: If you want to hear what a Puccini of the 21st century might have sounded like, this is as good a starting point as any

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: Strong singing and the orchestra playing a blinder can’t mask the disjointedness

Wexford Festival Opera 2023: An impressively unwavering Claudia Boyle sings the title role, with Matteo Mezzaro as Abenamet and Konu Kim as Almuzir

Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Patrick J O’Reilly presents cold, sci-fi-inspired dramatic concept

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

Belfast International Arts Festival 2023: Dark deeds offset by cartoony humour have been a Mitchell trademark. It’s not as potent a combination here

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Theatre: Showstopping technical hitches on opening night are a reminder this is a live performance, not a strip of celluloid

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: In Nancy Harris’s bold new play, creativity becomes a way to deal with loneliness

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Karen Egan’s experiences, which form the spine of the show, are relayed to poignant effect

Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: The pace of this assured, entertaining production never falters