Dublin Theatre Festival

The God and His Daughter, at Dublin Theatre Festival, has plenty of classical lamentation but not enough Marina Carr

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Second part of Marina Carr’s reworking of Sophocles’ Theban plays has plenty of lamentation but not enough Carr

Marina Carr’s The Boy, at Dublin Theatre Festival, asks us to look unflinchingly at the world we have made

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Version of the Oedipal myth distinguishes itself with unique Irish sense of fatalism and wit

The Quiet Man, at Dublin Theatre Festival, gets bogged down as it tries some reverse Paddywhackery

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: John Breen and Mikel Murfi set out to reclaim the short story that became John Ford’s John Hinde vision of Ireland

The Sound Inside, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is a play of haunting power

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Madeleine Potter and Eric Sirakian shine in Adam Rapp’s Tony-nominated story

I Fall Down, at Dublin Theatre Festival, is joyful, considered and very funny

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Gina Moxley’s ‘restoration comedy’ frankly contemplates women’s erasure in the official history of art

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

This Hamlet, the opening show of Dublin Theatre Festival 2025, is both deeply serious and a riot of fun

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 review: Teatro La Plaza’s questioning production is performed by a cast with Down syndrome

‘This was not the way my parents grew up. People were not proud of their deaf children’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: Her Father’s Voice, Shane O’Reilly’s new play, tackles cochlear implants and attitudes to the deaf community

Rébecca Chaillon: ‘Black women in theatre, I don’t see them. Maybe they are cleaning the toilets’

One of French theatre’s greatest risk-takers is bringing her play Whitewashing to Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Derry Girls’ Saoirse-Monica Jackson: ‘Dyslexia shaped me. I’m always thinking two steps ahead’

The Derry Girls star on life after the Channel 4 hit; her marriage to Hector Barbour, aka DJ Denis Sulta; and how dyslexia has shaped her

Hamlet starring actors with Down syndrome: ‘It profoundly reconfigures the meaning of to be or not to be?’

Chela De Ferrari is bringing a new vision of Shakespeare’s play to Dublin

The Guide: Dublin Theatre Festival, Dermot Kennedy, Stand Up for Gaza and the other best things to see in Ireland

September 20th-26th, 2025: The best movies, music, art and more coming your way this week

Katriona O’Sullivan on bringing Poor to the stage: ‘I’ve cried so many times, because it’s my life. It’s difficult to watch’

Poor is about to open at the Gate. Its author and playwright Sonya Kelly talk about adapting O’Sullivan’s bestselling memoir for the theatre

Marina Carr and Caitríona McLaughlin on The Boy: ‘We’re constantly being told what to do, what to think. We’ll turn into zombies’

Dublin Theatre Festival 2025: The writer and director on their new production, a retelling of Sophocles’ Theban plays

Pea Dinneen: ‘Raising Her Voice was born out of frustration at seeing myself reflected nowhere in the Irish theatrical canon’

The trans artist Pea Dinneen’s Dublin Fringe Festival debut, an autobiographical show about gender, is also a reclamation of cultural space

A Druid show and a sandwich for 50p: How Mick Lally, Marie Mullen and Garry Hynes began their theatre company 50 years ago

‘We were chancing our arm,’ Garry Hynes says of the company that brought superlative, expansive, intimate, skilled theatre to Galway and then the world stage

Samuel Beckett vs Archbishop McQuaid: Why an infuriated Nobel laureate withdrew his play from Dublin Theatre Festival

Festival acquired letter playwright wrote to friend in 1958 to apologise for feeling compelled to cancel planned run of Act without Words I

Druid Theatre to mark 50th anniversary with Synge-Shakespeare double bill

Presentation in Galway this summer will feature Riders to the Sea and Macbeth

Tommy Tiernan to star in new Kevin Barry play as part of Abbey programme

New slate will also feature Marina Carr’s The Boy, and work from Barbara Bergin

Lynne Parker: The Abbey does so much. But Ireland needs a national theatre for the 21st century

The future of Irish theatre looks bleak. It’s time to overhaul the way the sector works – including where the money goes, says Rough Magic’s artistic director

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