Theatre: Production has lots to admire with a child-friendly context for Ireland’s Civil War

Theatre: Barbara and Jane Brennan star as the sisters who re-enact scenes from a night 40 years ago in Emma Jordan’s outstanding Dublin production

Theatre: As the show’s facilitator asks, with chilling rhetorical resonance, would you rather ‘be a warrior in a garden or a gardener in a war?’

Theatre: Pat Kinevane’s talent as a writer and performer are indisputable but it is time to consider a new format

Dance: Philip Connaughton’s confidence in the power of his artform is justified by the result

Lyric Theatre’s production of Shakespeare’s doomed romance emphasises the contemporary at expense of the universal

Theatre: The story arc of this BrokenCrow production personifies a battle between dark and light, bad and good

Gina Moxley’s uncompromising portrait of smalltown anxieties remains as shocking as it was when it first premiered

Review: Evangelia Rigaki and Marina Carr’s piece features compelling performances but sometimes struggles with the acoustic challenges of its venue

The singer-songwriter’s show, directed by Conor McPherson, combines absorbing self-portrait with compassionately intelligent vision

Charlie McCarthy’s play about Dromcollogher cinema fire of 1926 is deeply personal, but it is not a documentary drama

The jazz drummer Conor Guilfoyle’s jittery beats set the dancer Alex O’Neill convulsing around the dance floor

Theatre: Plenty of talent is evident both on stage and behind it, but ultimately this comes across as a self-congratulatory, if spectacular, marketing ploy

Theatre: Audience treated to a celebration of difference and the power of friendship

Elaborate production does justice to the French singer

The key transformative moment is well-done but everything else in this production is a little underwhelming

Theatre: Despite the charm of its star and production, this pantomime is let down by some puerile writing

Theatre: Caitríona McLaughlin’s production runs for 100 minutes but holds your attention throughout

Theatre: Refreshingly, this production is pitched at children. A brilliant first pantomime for young families

Theatre: Be Our Guest routine will be seared into imagination of viewers young and old for years to come

Theatre: Plenty of songs and laughs in this crowd-pleasing show that honours panto’s legacy

Theatre review: In Haunted and If These Wigs Could Talk, from the Abbey and Thisispopbaby, the activists and performers reflect on success and its price

Review: CoisCéim Dance Theatre and Liz Roche Company bask in the complexity of the Irish writer’s multilayered novel

Stanley Townsend carries the weight of this haunting adaptation of Mike McCormack’s novel

Belfast International Arts Festival: Conor Mitchell has crafted a slippery, intelligent new opera

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: An exquisite escape for young audiences from the noise of modern life

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Disturbing and demanding drama echos a resurgent European right-wing

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: In expanding the story to include the recent pandemic, Brokentalkers don’t quite illuminate the novel that is their original source

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Structured like a Ted talk, this tricksy performance tackles identity and culture in the internet age

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The choreographer Gisele Vienne skilfully splinters her heaving mass of bodies into individual characters

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Gare St Lazare’s production of Will Eno’s inscrutable play has echoes of Beckett in Florida suburbia

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The Eden and Pure Mule writer’s rural drama starts slowly but then hits its stride

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: This take on Ulysses portrays young men lolled by compulsive, self-destructive, addictive inadequacy

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: There is plenty of art in this piece, which refuses to patronise its audience

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Tom Murphy’s 1961 play is about more than toxic masculinity and tribal dysfunction

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: This Brechtian reimagining of Orwell’s fable is great fun

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Junk Ensemble’s latest dance-theatre piece is involving but not illuminating

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The dance star’s fine intergenerational ensemble delivers a visual, aural archive of Irish step dance

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: The fight for normal life for ‘poor unfortunate gobshites’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Lee Coffey’s play explores the tensions of recovery from addiction

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Eoghan Quinn asks ‘who’s the baby?’ in an unsettling play about parenthood

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Anu and Emilie Pine stage a site-specific production at the National Maternity Hospital

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Mostly wordless performance has wide appeal for two- to six-year-old target audience

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Venetia Bowe gives a heart-crushing performance of emotional power and physical prowess

Dublin Theatre Festival: The terrific ensemble create strong, believable, well-rounded characters in this intense, intimate tale

Dublin Theatre Festival: This ingenious production from Emilie Pine and Dead Centre celebrates physical intimacy and the live experience

Dublin Theatre Festival: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s at times bewildering show builds slowly into something very special

Dublin Theatre Festival review: This reimagined meeting between Groucho Marx and TS Eliot is delivered with breakneck speed, comic timing and subtlety

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

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: Despite the Joyce’s Women title, this is ultimately his play, not theirs