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West Meath Gothic at Dublin Fringe is everything a fringe show should be
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: An old-time radio is Kate Finegan’s foil in this captivating aerial dance show
Saoirse at Dublin Fringe: A charming Gaeltacht musical with superb vocal performances
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: This Irish-language production hinges on a sweet coming-of-age romance at an embattled coláiste
Saving for a Helicopter at Dublin Fringe: Powerful one-woman account of hereditary illness
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Gráinne Curistan carries the audience through a series of linked anecdotes and emotional hairpin turns
Hard Mouth Show & Tell at Dublin Fringe: A world looking past women with endometriosis
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: In this unsettling work, a male critic only sees what he wants to see
Trolley Boy at Dublin Fringe: Hollow consumer culture questioned through dance
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Contentment is not stacked on shelves in Diarmuid Armstrong Mayock’s supermarket dreamscape
Pretty Vacant at Dublin Fringe: Five-star masterclass about exploitation of the Liberties
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Musical satire staged in city’s oldest neighbourhood dispels any fears of disconnect with local area
Muster at Dublin Fringe is a swooning play about releasing locked-up male emotion
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Whirling verses reach incandescent finale in this eloquent work
Dead in Here at Dublin Fringe: Gen Z dread looms in admirably sly work
A group of friends escape to a country estate and try to party like it’s 2019
Daddy Issues at Dublin Fringe: Women carry clones of Collins and Lincoln in clever comedy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Even the slapstick has a point to it in Brigid Leahy’s high-concept play
The Act of Existing at Dublin Fringe: Who dances first, Ben or Bobbi? The audience decides
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Crowd has the power to be merciful in this interactive dance theatre
Diversity Training at Dublin Fringe has legs as an idea but the execution is undercooked
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Show’s most interesting moments are interactions with the audience
Thérèse at Dublin Fringe: A frictionless tale of Dublin’s declining estates in the 1980s
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Portrait of worried mothers is overly neat, like a conversation where no one disagrees
Chronically Hopeful at Dublin Fringe: Exploration of long-term illness that feels reductive
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Theatre and music production is inventive but often lacks nuance
Soak: The Perfect Man at Dublin Fringe is a sharply comic take on fathers and eldest sons
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Samuel Yakura says something serious while being one of Irish theatre’s great goofballs
The Liberties musical Pretty Vacant: ‘It’s almost impossible to satirise what’s going on’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Dereliction and greed are viewed through a surreal lens in this new show. But can anything top the ‘bizarre stuff’ that’s really happening?
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Miss You: The Dublin Fringe Festival show inspired by Ireland’s missing women
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The one-person play where you’re handed a script and invited to perform it to a tree
Dublin Fringe Festival 2026: Theatre designer Dan Daly on bringing Arborlogues from Brooklyn to St Stephen’s Green
‘What’s the most exciting theatre in the world, and how can Irish audiences experience it?’
Róise Goan, the head of Dublin Theatre Festival, on the themes and values behind the upcoming 2026 edition
What happens when the most important relationship in your life begins to unravel?
Galway International Arts Festival 2026: In Eva O’Connor’s play For Dolores, a fractured friendship feels every bit as painful as the end of a romance
More than 80 Irish festivals to watch out for in 2026
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The year in theatre: At last, Ireland has lost its fear of new writing for the stage
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Playwright Carys D Coburn on Bán: ‘Can we be real to one another and be family? Often the answer is no’
Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Coburn’s prowess is in addressing the space between what we say and what we know
Change, at Dublin Fringe, is a call to climate action rooted in urgency and optimism
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Croí Glan ask not only what we have lost but also what we might still save
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 award winners revealed
Fringe director says this year 'marked an increased commitment to making sure the festival is open to all'
Last Gig Ever!!, at Dublin Fringe, is less performance than audience endurance test
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: In Last Gig Ever!!, two performers in oversized dark suits thrash around for an hour
Alison Spittle’s show Big, at Dublin Fringe, is harrowing and hilarious
Dublin Fringe Festival review: Spittle is a fearless confessional comic and a great storyteller, as she shows in this bracingly honest account of life in a fat body
Queens of Comedy: Feral Wellness, at Dublin Fringe: Coping mechanisms reconfigured as stand-up jokes
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: Sophia Wren and Aideen McQueen’s lively comedy aims to remove the shame of chaotic behaviour
Amsterdam, at Dublin Fringe: Soulful comedy drama deftly captures anxiety of young love
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025 review: David Rawle and Alison Kinlan play twentysomething friends grappling with unexpected romance
Am I the A**hole?, at Dublin Fringe, is a courtroom spoof more interested in judgment than justice
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Dafe Pessu Orugbo and Lisa Nally’s comedy allows the audience to watch as normal or join the jury
At Reverb, at Dublin Fringe, the gleeful audience are carried along by the energy onstage
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: Luail’s feelgood production celebrates togetherness through dance and music
Seón Simpson’s on a Tangent, at Dublin Fringe, is a touching, hilarious monologue
Dublin Fringe Festival 2025: An audacious navigation of the intersection of form, comic provocation and mental health
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