Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Writer Xnthony’s new musical was transformed by the illness and death of his best friend

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Louise Lowe and Anu are charting the extraordinary life of a man many would have recognised but few knew well

Dublin Theatre Festival 2026: Druid theatre company is staging Eugene O’Neill’s final work. It needs great acting to come to life

Abel Tesfaye’s Saturday-night Dublin show is a real spectacle. Oddly, though, there’s remarkably little sexual charisma

This elegiac play takes us across the Mullet peninsula to experience a disappearing part of our lives

It’s easy to dismiss conspiracy as stupidity or irrationality, but I’m open to hearing what the rational mind filters out

A reimagined Mirandolina will be performed at the Abbey in Italian with English subtitles. Carr’s translator Monica Capuani explains how they worked together

Kilkenny Arts Festival 2026: City turns its history into theatre with huge, largely local cast. It’s a visually stunning spectacle

Kilkenny Arts Festival: Hybrid form soon becomes cumbersome, but operatic adaptation of Krapp’s Last Tape still intrigues

Of course it’s not all bad: these days of apparent celebration can teach us a lot about ourselves

Kilkenny Arts Festival: New fever dream of an opera by composer Michael Gallen draws on Irish folk tradition of healers gifted with ‘the cure’

Swedish musician evokes apocalypse, environmental collapse and spiritual darkness in songs striving towards the light

A very good show and an exciting glimpse of the freer, more unpredictable artist Róis could become

Curraghmore Estate in Co Waterford was packed with 35,000 festivalgoers over the weekend. Here’s what we loved and what we didn’t

Dara Kiely is the band’s indispensable focal point and he staggers across the stage howling like a wounded man