Dublin Fringe Festival

When the Moon Spun Round: Fidget Feet turn Yeats’s poems for children into a stage show

Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: The poems are the jumping-off point for a fast-moving aerial dance show in collaboration with Ceol Connected

Sat Sept 16 2023 - 05:30

‘We live our lives to the fullest. It got us into trouble as teenagers’

The Women’s Podcast with Róisín Ingle

Thu Aug 31 2023 - 17:00

Òwe review: In this dance solo, Mufutau Yusuf shows that identity is in the bone and marrow

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: The Nigerian Irish dancer recconnects with his Yoruba roots

Tue Sept 27 2022 - 10:56

Revealed: Dublin Fringe Festival 2022 award winners

This year’s festival, the 28th, staged 586 performances of 64 productions in 27 venues across the city

Sun Sept 25 2022 - 21:30

Gull review: On a meander through Dublin, the subtle power of this piece becomes clear

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Shanna May Breen’s thoughtful, meditative environmental intervention directs our attention to our relationship with the city

Fri Sept 23 2022 - 14:40

Kitchensinkdrama review: A talking, assertive, nosy fox intervenes during dead-of-night distress

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: For a play that deals with insomnia, depression and trauma, Brian Bennett’s piece has a great quirkiness and moments of levity

Fri Sept 23 2022 - 14:21

Dance Double Bill review: Saoirse na mBan and Test 1 form a fortuitous diptych

Dublin Fringe Festival: Two strong pieces explore women’s experience through history and the tyranny of social media

Fri Sept 23 2022 - 10:14

Opening Night review: A puzzling experimental piece that works best when it does least

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Electronic composer Jane Deasy monitors the space around her as she probes the anxiety of performance

Fri Sept 23 2022 - 09:30

Fluff review: Sex workers’ hidden lives laid bare

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Lianne O’Hara’s debut play amplifies the voices of those who choose to make a living with their body

Fri Sept 23 2022 - 09:25

Anatomy of a Night review: Joyous, sexy, infectious, seductive

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Nick Nikolaou creates his characters through an energising, skillful, perfectly observed range of club dance styles

Thu Sept 22 2022 - 13:40

Blister review: A vulnerable, witty conversation with anxiety

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Síofra O’Meara gives an enthralling performance in her sharp, humorous play

Thu Sept 22 2022 - 09:48

Oliver Cromwell Is Really Very Sorry review: This barnstorming musical deserves to run and run

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Xnthony’s hilarious, deceptively angry marvel smuggles polemic into its comic show-stoppers

Thu Sept 22 2022 - 09:23

Conviction review: Battling inner demons in a graveyard

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Eva O’Connor’s strength is her sardonic tone, which infuses much of this audio drama about self-belief, self-doubt and sisterly love

Wed Sept 21 2022 - 13:17

He’s Perfect review: A highly personal interrogation of sexuality

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conor Cupples’s monologue contains much to admire — sometimes a bit too much, in fact

Wed Sept 21 2022 - 10:15

We Are an Archipelago review: Island lives collide in an entrancing performance piece

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Blending poetry with music, Erin Fornoff weaves a beguiling tale of an unlikely friendship

Wed Sept 21 2022 - 10:06

The Spin review: Tense two-hander balances social comedy with emotional heft

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: This Corcadorca production finds a singular mechanism for telling its unsettling story

Wed Sept 21 2022 - 09:34

Frigid review: The innocence, discovery, bullying and mortification of an Irish teen disco

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Rosa Bowden’s 50-minute nugget is bang-on about the world of Irish puberty

Fri Sept 16 2022 - 11:40

The Mothership review: A comic journey through parenthood, with two hilarious hosts

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Bright Club’s production is momcom with a little bit of science thrown in

Fri Sept 16 2022 - 11:24

24/7 Bliss review: A quirky take on lost and found connections

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Iseult Deane’s demi-opera holds up a mirror to contemporary life

Thu Sept 15 2022 - 08:15

The Perfect Immigrant review: Vibes and banter from an imperfect son

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: ‘Poem plays’ provide tonal interludes to one-man confessional structure

Wed Sept 14 2022 - 10:21

Out of the Ordinary review: Is this the future of opera?

Irish National Opera’s virtual-reality production works best when it most closely matches and resonates with the action

Tue Sept 13 2022 - 12:30

Hotel Happiness: Big ideas get lost in an anticlimactic production

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Despite its intriguing premise, Chaos Factory’s two-handed drama is disappointingly prosaic

Tue Sept 13 2022 - 09:25

Hive City Legacy review: Full of raucous joy

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Women of colour ask ‘How Irish are you?’

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 14:18

Beyond Survival School Bus review: Take a trip to the margins

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: All aboard for a live experiment for the endtimes

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 13:10

Oops, This Is Toxic review: Candid revelations and cultural observations make for a riotous comic show

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Comedian Julie Jay uses a conventional stand-up format to deliver uncomfortable truths and irresistible laughs

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 13:03

Lie Low review: A tense investigation of the effects of trauma

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Ciara Elizabeth Smyth’s dark play illuminates the grey areas in the darkness

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 12:59

‘Where Ye From?’ review: A divine comedy that gives voice to the voiceless

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Growler’s multifaceted and, at times, mesmerising performance aims to heal past traumas

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 11:48

Accents review: From boy to man to father

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Conviction in tightly controlled chaos

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 11:31

Pig Brain review: Dystopian farce takes aim at online paranoia and digital mores

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Ambitious drama promises more than it delivers but is powered by Emma Finegan’s kinetic performance

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 11:13

Wake review: Thisispopbaby’s brilliant new show is like Riverdance for club queens

Dublin Fringe Festival 2022: Jennifer Jennings, Phillip McMahon and Niall Sweeney find new life in old traditions

Mon Sept 12 2022 - 11:03

Hugh Linehan: Live cultural events are back. Now we just need audiences

Covid closed much of the arts world, and attendance still has not returned to pre-pandemic levels

Sat Sept 10 2022 - 05:00

‘I’d be doing any regular task and then I would just have a backwards leg like a Barbie doll’

Comedian Emily Ashmore has been suffering from moderate to severe knee displacements since her teens

Thu Sept 08 2022 - 06:01

Hot Brown Honey: Celebrating women of colour in Ireland with humour and ‘joyous rage’

The `Dublin chapter’ of the Australian music and dance troupe are performing in the Fringe Festival show Hive City Legacy

Sat Sept 03 2022 - 05:00