Everything Falls review: Family care presented as a wearying, compassionate dance
Theatre: Shaun Dunne and Brokentalkers’ collaboration portrays the challenges of looking after a partner with a long-term illness
Project Arts Centre
Content: Hate speech, revenge porn and an exploding dog – A gripping portrayal of the human cost of sanitising social media
Dublin Theatre Festival 2024: Ross Dungan’s darkly comic play blends live illustration and multimedia with the theatrical to explore the disturbing world of content moderation
First Trimester: On-stage sperm-donor interviews elicit touching discussions about parenting
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Krishna Istha’s radical performance is part of a trans couple’s real-life journey to start a family
The Maestro & the Mosquita: Louis Lovett brings a bravura performance to this emotional journey
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: Carmel Winters’s artful tale also combines with Stephen Warbeck’s evocative score and Sarah Jane Shiels’s clever lighting
Dublin Theatre Festival is losing its director. What has Willie White achieved since 2012?
A key part of the festival head’s mission has been to bring outstanding European theatre to Ireland. It hasn’t been an easy task
Terra: A dancer – and a planet – trying to get back to certain kind of feeling
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: In Alessandra Azeviche’s slow-burning show, the choreographer sets out to break free from her torments
In 0800 Cupid, Emer Dineen has created a ‘camp catalyst for reconnection’ in a lonely world
Dineen’s show with Thisispopbaby will premiere at Dublin Theatre Festival this month
Louis Lovett on The Maestro & the Mosquita: ‘I create the physical space on stage for the audience’s imagination’
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: At the heart of Carmel Winters’s new play, with music by Oscar-winner Stephen Warbeck, is the non-vernal performance by Lovett
Dublin Fringe Festival 2024: 19 shows to catch as the festival turns 30
Seventy-five productions, 520 performances, 29 venues: we offer a taster of what’s on offer
Gatman! review: Tadhg Hickey’s monologue is an exposition of inebriation as something joyous
Theatre: Telling has the comedy of self-awareness but falters as it gathers its darkness
Balcony Project leader Louis Haugh: ‘It’s quite emotional to see queer people come together with timber and saws’
The artist is heading a project that incorporates plants, fermentation and a small, queer community of growers
Real Life review: a thoroughly unique, ambitious and lively show
Theatre: There is not much of a narrative to this show, but that’s the point. The audience is kept on their toes by an animated and engaging cast
Boyfriends review: A tender and witty look at the lives of young gay men
Theatre: Littered with pop culture, silly couch sex and dancing, Ultan Pringle’s script also tackles big themes
‘The Famine led to distrust of the land, because it didn’t serve us. Is that why we are disconnected from our own culture?’
In Ciseach, the choreographer Catherine Young shows how, by following the paths of our ancestors, we can repair our relationship with the land
The Last Pearl: Blue Raincoat’s best voyage yet
Theatre: Niall Henry’s absorbing play about a deep-sea diver is eerily resonant with contemporary concerns
‘It’s worth trying things. It’s worth trusting your gut. It’s worth going for it’
What’s next for Project Arts Centre artistic director Cian O’Brien who is leaving to set up a production, touring and consultancy company?
Bellow review: An odd-couple pairing between an avant-garde performer and a traditional musician
Theatre: Brokentalkers are aware they occupy a rarefied zone. This encounter between Gary Keegan and Danny O’Mahony enjoyably sends up their approach
Nournimity: A test of the Merce Cunningham-John Cage approach to movement and sound on stage
Dance: This new work by Lucia Kilger, created with Lina Andonovska and Ria Rehfuss, values coexistence over second-to-second interaction
Minseach review: Sibéal Davitt embodies carefree wildness with sean-nós and contemporary dancing
Dance: Minseach’s unsettled structure reflects Davitt’s own hazy identity as an artist
Breathwork review: An extremely intimate performance on a vast, global theme
Dublin Theatre Festival 2023: Everything is minimal in Éna Brennan’s new work for Irish National Opera
Tiny Piano Man review: David O’Doherty delivers a masterclasses in the art of casual comedy
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Veteran Irish comic brings a packed crowd to their knees more than once
Texture Like Sun review: A limpid portrayal of the inescapable cycles of addiction and drug use
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Throughout the hour there is no moralising, simply a portrayal of addiction
The King of All Birds review: Moments of visual and oral storytelling make this play one to remember
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: This show feels like a history of Ireland but also a heartfelt ode to a fading country
Hothouse review: Deadly serious and wildly funny
Dublin Fringe Festival 2023: Sharp, nuanced script rips along under Claire O’Reilly’s assured, quirky direction
Manifest review: What does a young boy need to become a good man? Brokentalkers sketch out an answer
Theatre: As the show’s facilitator asks, with chilling rhetorical resonance, would you rather ‘be a warrior in a garden or a gardener in a war?’
Veronica Bolay: an observer and painter whose work was difficult to classify
An exhibition of the late artist runs at the Coach House in Dublin Castle until March
Building an audience for contemporary classical music
Recitals, workshops and the determinedly avant garde feature in Music Current festival
‘I was just a very confused actor. But I was really keen to learn’
Mark Rylance on his unlikely road to Hollywood stardom, and why Brits love an underdog
It’s not endgame for Irish theatre, but it is a struggle
Theatre has been resilient, but with the Gate in trouble, the sector is on a knife edge
Masterclass: A magnificent send-up of the anxieties of the age
Dublin Fringe Festival 2021: Brokentalkers and Truscott’s fruitful collaboration feels like a direct response to #MeToo
Actor Tom Hickey, star of The Riordans, has died
President Michael D Higgins leads tributes to ‘an artist of total commitment’
‘I’m a cinephile... arthouse, martial arts, porn, horror. Everything’
Video: Rouzbeh Rashidi runs a society in Dublin to promote experimental films
‘It’s just not feasible’ for artists to live in Dublin
Dublin city centre: If we want a vibrant creative life in our capital, we need to change how we support artists
To be a Machine review: Experimental format well-suited to play’s core theme
Self-conscious experiments complement the exploration of transhumanism
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