A group of friends escape to a country estate and try to party like it’s 2019

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Even the slapstick has a point to it in Brigid Leahy’s high-concept play

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Crowd has the power to be merciful in this interactive dance theatre

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Show’s most interesting moments are interactions with the audience

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Portrait of worried mothers is overly neat, like a conversation where no one disagrees

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Theatre and music production is inventive but often lacks nuance

Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Samuel Yakura says something serious while being one of Irish theatre’s great goofballs

Theatre: The performer is compelling as Judy Garland, whose final years are the focus of Peter Quilter’s play

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

Tina Fey’s high-school musical features heightened impulses, fluctuating hormones and the recalibration of friendships as teenagers try to figure out who they are

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

Katherine Rodríguez’s heart-melting performance reflects the way South American dancers tell a story through their emotions as much as through steps

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

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

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

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

Theatre: Everybody is ready to burst out singing during performance of Rodgers and Hammerstein musical with darker nuances

Galway International Arts Festival 2026: Tarik O’Regan’s eclectic musical expression powers adaptation of Tóibín novella

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