At Project in Dublin, Pan Pan and Big Dance Theatre create a woozy sci-fi riff on Eugene O’Neill’s searing family drama

Theatre review: Key directorial and design choices stop the audience getting to grips with the forbidding patter that supplies much of the play’s power

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Ben Kidd and Bush Moukarzel direct a multinational, plurilingual cast in their adaptation of David Van Reybrouck’s book

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Eileen Walsh, Lorcan Cranitch and Marty Rea excel under Garry Hynes’ direction

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: The stakes never seem particularly high in Annabelle Comyn’s brisk 90-minute staging

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Abbey production has a thoughtful, accomplished first half, but then it loses focus and coherence

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Anu’s portrait of the boxer has only a patchy historical record to draw on. It might benefit from more dramatic licence

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: As Bette Davis in All About Eve, Marcus Amaglo has an air of imperious dignity while also bringing out the ageing star’s vulnerability

Theatre: This take on La Locandiera, set mainly in a Dublin Italian restaurant, emphasises the universality of its central themes of misogyny and intimate violence

Theatre: David Ireland’s play, first staged in 2018, unfolds in knockabout style but suffers from weaknesses in characterisation

Theatre: Performer tells six loosely connected stories about her life on a bare stage with absorbing results

The supernatural lurks during a strained family reunion, but never coalesces into a haunting spectacle

Jim Roche and Liam Hourican of Volta Theatre Company stage their adaptations of Two Gallants, A Little Cloud and Counterparts

Genevieve Hulme-Beaman combines deadpan melancholy with sublimely odd physical comedy in Annie Ryan’s bawdy staging of the Lennox Robinson play

Theatre: In the Irish premiere of Lot Vekemans’s play, grieving parents care most about trying to dominate each other