Julie Kelleher directs Niall McNamee and Ferdia Walsh-Peelo in Flannery’s adaptation of his debut album, about two brothers who arrive at a painful separation

Ryan Donaldson gives an immensely poised performance in this monologue play about gay self-loathing, sexual abuse and sectarian bigotry

Colin Murphy’s densely researched play, directed by Samantha Cade, centres on rival approaches to tackling disease in 19th-century London

Theatre: A musical misstep is among a series of troubling aspects about The Ballad of Johnny & June

Theatre: David Hayman and Fionn Foley play the dying sociology professor and his former student in this warm, funny, sad and relatable story

The audience becomes part of the story in Philip Connaughton’s retelling of the Aeneid, whose themes are superbly brought to life by the company’s dancers

Theatre: Emilie Hetland’s historical play delves into the relationships between Rosa Luxemburg, Leo Jogiches and Mathilde Jacob

Irish National Opera’s coproduction, directed by Netia Jones, features the well-matched central pairing of Jennifer Davis and Ryan Capozzo

Bea’s latest comedy show deals with the ins and outs of Catholicism without once reverting to despair

Theatre: Fantastic chaos becomes remarkably disorientating in Blue Raincoat’s outstanding production

Tom Creed directs a cast led by Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Kate Gilmore, Michael Glenn Murphy, Thommas Kane Byrne and Mary Murray

Theatre: Touring production of Willy Russell’s musical manages to make its climax shocking

Theatre: Well-considered physical performances as concrete cell becomes allegorical farmland

Una McKevitt’s play turns into a riotous black farce. It’s a tonal shift that pays off

Theatre: Lights pick out the real Hutch in show that approaches truth from oblique angles

Andrew Flynn’s conventional production of the Arthur Miller play ignores contemporary questions raised by MeToo and cancel culture

Aaron Sorkin takes Harper Lee’s classic book to create a play that presents a far more morally complex version of American liberalism

Julie Kelleher directs Timmy Creed, Martha Dunlea and Bláithín Mac Gabhann in the first of Cork Arts Theatre’s Re:Directing productions

Irish National Opera’s touring production, featuring Amber Norelai and Benjamin Russell, maximises smaller performance spaces

Jonathan Spector’s play, making its Irish debut, features the equivalent of Chekhov’s gun for the era of diversity and inclusion