Dublin Theatre Festival

The Cold Sings review: Sylvia Plath remains enigmatic

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

What We Hold review: Five stars for Jean Butler’s astonishing dance work

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

No Magic Pill review: A gutsy play that doesn’t make nice about disability

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

G.O.D. review: Intense, compelling and intimate

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

Colic review: Inhabiting the troubling space of struggling adults

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

All Hardest of Woman review: At Holles Street, a troubling meditation on life and its fragility

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

Grand Soft Day review: A gentle celebration of sensory pleasure

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

Lost Lear review: Layered retelling of Shakespeare’s tragedy set in a nursing home

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

The Blackwater Lightship review: Colm Tóibín’s novel becomes an emotionally engaging, meaty, humorous play

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

Good Sex review: Raw, unsettling, seductive, provocative and very, very funny

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

How to Be a Dancer in Seventy-two Thousand Easy Lessons review: Michael Keegan-Dolan’s bewitching dance theatre

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

Dinner With Groucho review: Frank McGuinness’s new play is a surreal, smart and funny reinvention of an odd pairing

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

‘I discover myself thinking that maybe an idea is too much. Then I decide: no, it’s not’

Director Romeo Castellucci, who returns to the Dublin Theatre Festival next month, insists he’s not a provocateur despite a history of generating shock and outrage

Inspired by Ulysses, Emilie Pine and Anu stage a site-specific performance at Holles Street maternity hospital

All Hardest of Woman engages with a passage in Jame Joyce’s epic novel to explore women’s experiences in the Dublin building

Michael Keegan-Dolan: back on the boards

Internationally acclaimed Kerry-based choreographer returns to the stage after 20 years with his new show for the Dublin Theatre Festival

Joyce’s Women review: In Edna O’Brien’s new play, the epiphany James Joyce sought never comes

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

Festival fun: A bumper harvest of children’s shows is on the way this autumn

Baboró, Bualadh Bos, Dublin Theatre Festival and Dublin Fringe Festival have a packed programme of theatre for youngsters

Eugene O’Brien embraces the energy that working outside of his comfort zone offers

The writer discusses his debut novel, Going Back, a Pure Mule sequel, and two new plays

Edna O’Brien: ‘If I don’t write, I might as well not live’

At the age of 92 the author has written a play about the women in James Joyce’s life, and she won’t be stopping there

Animals at Dublin Theatre Festival: Putting a new skin on Orwell’s fable

Louise White’s play takes Animal Farm as a starting point for examining contemporary privilege and power

Dublin Theatre Festival 2022: 10 world-class shows to catch

Sara Keating on the shows to see at this year’s festival, from September 29th to October 16th

Hugh Linehan: Live cultural events are back. Now we just need audiences

Covid closed much of the arts world, and attendance still has not returned to pre-pandemic levels

Willie White: ‘We need the arts if Dublin is to thrive’

Dublin Theatre Festival’s director reflects on the festival’s role in the capital’s culture during line-up reveal

Glue: A dark, unusual, timely play that pulls no punches

Dublin Theatre Festival: Robbie O’Connor’s debut has much to say about the insidious nature of predatory behaviour

Bang!: Impressive exploration of complex themes of gender and identity

Dublin Theatre Festival: Michelle Read’s play is nuanced and deeply attuned to character development

Night Dances: Raucous, loud and sweaty, this is a thrilling hour of relentless dancing and music

Dublin Theatre Festival: Emma Martin shows us that the best response to a challenge is to dance back

iGirl: Olwen Fouéré stalks the stage in Marina Carr’s multidimensional piece of theatre art

Dublin Theatre Festival: This deeply collaborative work asks how to make sense of our own stories in the continuum of human history

Conversations After Sex: ★★★★★ for Mark O’Halloran’s extraordinary new play

Dublin Theatre Festival: Kate Stanley Brennan is sublime in Thisispopbaby’s production

Uncle Ray: David Bolger, Donking Rongavilla and a rich meditation on fathers

Dublin Theatre Festival: CoisCéim’s new show is a trio for a television set and two dancers

The Book of Names: Louise Lowe sharpens Anu’s enthralling approach to theatre

Dublin Theatre Festival: The terror of the War of Independence is unavoidable in this immersive experience

Stronger: A sensitive exploration of restorative justice

Dublin Theatre Festival: Geoff Power’s play delves into the psychology of victimhood and the circumstances that create criminals

Rearing Is Sparing: The complex, challenging reality of mothering in demanding circumstances

Dublin Theatre Festival: TKB guides his audience through gangland violence, revenge and stigma in inner-city Dublin

What Did I Miss?: An authentic reflection of the complexity of its young audience’s lives

Dublin Theatre Festival: Shaun Dunne’s play explores the ritual significance of school graduation

The First Child: Equal parts baffling and brilliant

Dublin Theatre Festival: This is a remarkable conclusion to Donnacha Dennehy and Enda Walsh’s partnership

Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks: Sarah Hanly grabs you by the balls from the start

Dublin Theatre Festival: In her first play, Hanly describes sexual exploration and discovery in her convent-school oratory

Duck Duck Goose: An uncomfortable, insightful portrayal of sexual violence’s social impact

Dublin Theatre Festival: In Caitríona Daly’s play, the protagonist becomes deeply entangled in a rape allegation

Once Before I Go: Join the dance, live fully, live without judgment, live well

Dublin Theatre Festival: Sean Campion and Aisling O’Sullivan star in Philip McMahon’s play

How It Is: Six hours of Samuel Beckett, and it’s hard to click pause

Dublin Theatre Festival: Conor Lovett leads Gare St Lazare Ireland’s filmed production

Gate Theatre reopens: ‘There’s a lovely sense of hysteria’

Audience returns for first time since March 12th, 2020, to attend Once Before I Go

Root: Undeniable good will prevails over occasional awkwardness

Dublin Theatre Festival: Four talented actors provide good company throughout

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