Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Eva O’Connor’s play is an acerbic, emotionally astute portrait of female friendship in all its intensity

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Garry Hynes directs a cast whose delight in performing Boucicault’s melodrama is contagious

Galway International Arts Festival: Jim Cartwright’s series of vignettes balance bawdy tavern comedy with a bleak sense of how badly life can turn out

Galway International Arts Festival: At 79, Smith’s voice remains strong, and her demeanour is as pure and earnest as ever

Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: The Rooms series continues with the story of a caretaker whose marriage has reached a moment of crisis

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: In Eva O’Connor’s play For Dolores, a fractured friendship feels every bit as painful as the end of a romance

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Druid Theatre’s revival leans into the Victorian melodrama’s surprising political undercurrent

Theatre: Tim Scott’s tightly scripted, visually impressive, well-acted play struggles to match its subject’s self-awareness and intellectual depth

Singer, with his charming between song interludes, overcomes lacklustre opening to Dublin gig

Rhian Teasdale is a captivating performer, with an uncanny ability to look as though she’s dancing around her bedroom

George Fitzmaurice’s one-act comedy from 1913 is clearly a passion project for Conall Morrison, who is directing it at Bewley’s Cafe Theatre. It can be hard to see why

CMAT opens Capaldi’s show with gorgeous, glittering, country-inflected pop songs

I can see echoes of Catalan education in my new Irish lessons conducted over a few pints

At Cork Midsummer Festival 2026, the Said the Dead writer brings visitors into the former Our Lady’s Psychiatric Hospital