The Black Wolfe Tone review: A heavy-on-the-pedal psychodrama
Kwaku Fortune, in his stage-writing debut, plays a frustrated young man admitted to a psychiatric institution
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Queen of the Meadows review: A compelling, exciting exploration of memory, loss, renewal and the supernatural
Dance: In this new work inspired by her grandmother’s beliefs, Robyn Byrne teams up with her fellow performer Susanne Engbo Andersen
Irish artist Michael Kane: ‘Patrick Kavanagh did nothing else but create art. And that was my ideal’
The Project Arts Centre founder, who is marking his 90th birthday with a solo show, is a firm believer in the idea that art truly matters. He lives fully surrounded by it
Behind the scenes at Luail as Ireland’s national dance company prepares to open Dublin Dance Festival
Artistic director Liz Roche has programmed Chora, a triple bill. ‘The dancers are constantly shifting focus and vocabularies, which really requires agility’
Begin Anywhere review: A celebration of the artistic vision of Merce Cunningham and John Cage
Irish Modern Dance Theatre’s new work, by John Scott and Mel Mercier, is performed alongside Four Solos by Merce Cunningham
Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century
The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director
Aurora: A Modern Myth review – An ecoaware play with a surprising amount of sass
Prime Cut’s production of Dominic Montague’s play doesn’t always work, but it’s definitely not dull
‘Ireland is one of the most generous nations in the world, but things have been tricky at times’
Segun Akano from Nigeria came to Ireland in 2002
2025 in art: 10 shows to look out for over the next 12 months
Collective action and activism are themes in the year ahead, as artists also explore what gets lost and found in translation
One Leg One Eye review: Forget Fairytale of New York. This is a soundtrack of the real Irish Christmas
Ian Lynch and George Brennan offer a wonderful ghost-train ride through droning electronica, warped uilleann pipes and spirals of unfiltered noise
It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own: A swooning comedy for Dublin after the riots
Theatre: Ericka Roe is note perfect in Thommas Kane Byrne’s fabulous version of Dublin’s inner city
‘Dreadful government, lack of nightlife, lack of cultural spaces’: Dublin writer Thommas Kane Byrne on his home city
What’s Next For?: TKB, whose new play, It’s Always Your Bleedin’ Own, completes his St Mary’s Mansions trilogy, on the evolution of Ireland’s capital
Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Content: Hate speech, revenge porn and an exploding dog – A gripping portrayal of the human cost of sanitising social media
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ross Dungan’s darkly comic play blends live illustration and multimedia with the theatrical to explore the disturbing world of content moderation
First Trimester: On-stage sperm-donor interviews elicit touching discussions about parenting
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family
The Maestro & the Mosquita: Louis Lovett brings a bravura performance to this emotional journey
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
Dublin Theatre Festival is losing its director. What has Willie White achieved since 2012?
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30
Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer
Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
Balcony Project leader Louis Haugh: ‘It’s quite emotional to see queer people come together with timber and saws’
The artist is heading a project that incorporates plants, fermentation and a small, queer community of growers
Real Life review: a thoroughly unique, ambitious and lively show
Theatre: There is not much of a narrative to this show, but that’s the point. The audience is kept on their toes by an animated and engaging cast
Boyfriends review: A tender and witty look at the lives of young gay men
Theatre: Littered with pop culture, silly couch sex and dancing, Ultan Pringle’s script also tackles big themes
‘The Famine led to distrust of the land, because it didn’t serve us. Is that why we are disconnected from our own culture?’
In Ciseach, the choreographer Catherine Young shows how, by following the paths of our ancestors, we can repair our relationship with the land
The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
‘It’s worth trying things. It’s worth trusting your gut. It’s worth going for it’
What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?
Bellow review: An odd-couple pairing between an avant-garde performer and a traditional musician
Theatre: Brokentalkers are aware they occupy a rarefied zone. This encounter between Gary Keegan and Danny O’Mahony enjoyably sends up their approach
Nournimity: A test of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage approach to movement and sound on stage
Dance: This new work by Lucia Kilger, created with Lina Andonovska and Ria Rehfuss, values coexistence over second-to-second interaction
Minseach review: Sibéal Davitt embodies carefree wildness with sean-nós and contemporary dancing
Dance: Minseach’s unsettled structure reflects Davitt’s own hazy identity as an artist
Breathwork review: An extremely intimate performance on a vast, global theme
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
Tiny Piano Man review: David O’Doherty delivers a masterclasses in the art of casual comedy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Veteran Irish comic brings a packed crowd to their knees more than once
Texture Like Sun review: A limpid portrayal of the inescapable cycles of addiction and drug use
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Throughout the hour there is no moralising, simply a portrayal of addiction
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