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

Louise Lowe’s promenade piece, at the National Archives, portrays the shady history of the Irish Hospitals’ Sweepstake

Theatre: Killian Donnelly leads a cast that features some of the greatest voices associated with the production

In Eva O’Connor’s new play, worlds collide as a young couple struggle to understand why they’re so drawn to one another

Salome Jicia surmounts every vocal challenge of the role. She is well matched with Mario Chang, William Guanbo Su and Siobhan Stagg

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Created with Alice Ripoll, Puff is a homage to Brazil’s passinho urban dance

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The dancers never waver in a production that is sometimes whimsical, at other times thoughtful

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Luail displays remarkable interconnectedness as tableaux combine into a profound interpretation of the nature of being alive

Theatre: Neill Fleming evokes real fear in Stewart Roche’s intricate, intellectually daring tale for our confused and troubling times

Matthew Malone and Caitríona Ennis star in Marc Atkinson Borrull’s revival of Oscar Wilde’s most political work

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: One-woman show illuminates vulnerability of performers, particularly female dancers who defy Instagrammable stereotypes

At the Gaiety Theatre in Dublin, we start to doubt the authenticity of the illusion and wonder how much of what we are seeing has been baked in advance

In Stephen M Hornby’s play, a young gay man tries to find his way in a hostile 1950s world as the broadcaster investigates ‘the homosexual condition’

Amy Molloy, Mary Moulds, Marie Jones and Katie Tumelty star in Dan Gordon’s revival of the Belfast writer’s first play

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Amir Sabra, Imogen Alvares and Les Neish battle the elements in Megan and Jessica Kennedy’s visually arresting production

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: The Greek choreographer Christos Papadopoulos reclaims a collective identity

Dublin Dance Festival 2026: Sandy Cuthbert, Janie Doherty and Andrea Madore skim around the stage as Ursula Burns performs a perfectly otherworldly score

Harry Butler’s complex play takes aim at therapy talk, consent, the politics of naming harm, and the perils of the blame game

Theatre: Michael James Ford, Mark O’Regan and Bairbre Ní Chaoimh star in this revival of Barry McKinley’s play