Dublin Dance Festival 2025: Celebrating its 30th anniversary, this ballet has earned its recognition as one of the most beloved Swan Lake interpretations of all time

Dublin Dance Festival 2025: What speaks loudest in this show by 10 Q-Dance Company dancers is the immediate physicality onstage

The choreographer wanted to physicalise the workings of the mind. What has emerged is a rattle-bag of ideas full of whimsy and humour

The choreographer’s fantastical take on the life of her great-great-grandfather will be woven into her family’s already rich oral history

Theatre: The excellently paired Zara Devlin and Naoise Dunbar star in the Gate production of Abi Morgan’s absorbing play

Crowd-pleasing tale of Spielberg movie mixes heartfelt details with top-notch film buffery and broad physical comedy

Luail resists the temptation of a slick, easy-to-digest premiere, instead presenting three dances that celebrate the intangible

Choreographed performance from ultimate NYC character is entertaining but lacks proper fan Q&A

Theatre: Lee Coffey’s new drama has the pieces to become a whirling Dublin tale fuelled by thrills and suspense

Dance: In this new work inspired by her grandmother’s beliefs, Robyn Byrne teams up with her fellow performer Susanne Engbo Andersen

Tim Crouch feeds his delighted guest star her lines in this now two-decade-old revelation of theatre-making

Michael Fentiman’s touring production is deeply thoughtful in its approach to staging CS Lewis’s classic children’s book

The comedian’s Acting My Age show is ‘90 per cent good but 10 per cent not so good – but you have no proof’

Two doors up from the Gaiety Theatre a homeless man is stretched out on the footpath, invisible to theatregoers keen to get to their seats before the curtain call. Inside the ornate Victorian theatre Myra Hennessy holds a similarly supine position on the stage, her head resting on a bag stuffed full of her possessions. “Look me in the eye,” she says as she harangues an imaginary pedestrian who refuses to engage with her request for spare change

The novelist has an ability to connect Ireland’s historical roots with its modern realities, but the multiple monologues of his story can struggle on a bare stage

Theatre: Chris O’Dowd, Brian Gleeson, Seán McGinley and Derbhle Crotty star in the Irish writer’s new drama

The drama’s radical idea is to locate disorganised rebel leaders in a drawingroom comedy, but it’s soon derailed by a insistent focus on the nature of remembering

The extraordinary acting of Fouéré and her fellow principals is all the more remarkable for being unpolished, undirected and unrehearsed

Theatre: Sarah Jane Scaife directs an entertaining Abbey production of an endlessly quotable 1930 comedy

Theatre: Has this satire aged well? You can find your answer in Donald Trump’s White House