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Adrienne Truscott in Masterclass (Pic: Carmine Covelli)

On Masterclass, and gender & power in the arts world

Feidlim Canon of Brokentalkers and genre-straddlng performing artist and feminist Adrienne Truscott collaborate in their new acclaimed show Masterclass, which tours Ireland this June

Theatre • 29 May 24

Dublin Fringe: Dancer Mufutau Yusuf goes back to his roots

Dance • 13 Sep 22

Noelle Brown and Kwaku Fortune star in Absent The Wrong (Pic: Issey Goold)

Dublin Fringe: Dylan Coburn Gray on comedy, tragedy & adoption

Theatre • 08 Sep 22

Duck! Ciara Elizabeth Smyth's Lie Low is coming to this year's Dublin Fringe

Ciara Elizabeth Smyth on a day in the life of a playwright

Theatre • 07 Sep 22

Manus Halligan stars in A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings

A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings - a theatrical flight of fancy

Theatre • 16 Sep 21

The participants in Weft at this year's Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe: On Weft, and meaningful representation in the arts

Dublin Fringe • 09 Sep 21

Dublin Fringe: The ballad of Rescue Annie

Theatre • 31 Aug 21

Dublin Fringe: Murmuration on finding language for the unspoken

Theatre • 18 Aug 21

Dublin Fringe: Sibéal Davitt on embracing your inner goat

Dance • 17 Aug 21

Ian Lynam brings Austistic Licence to this year's Dublin Fringe (Pic: Stephen Peice)

Dublin Fringe: Ian Lynam on taking Austistic Licence

Comedy • 16 Aug 21

Lelia Doolan features in Mad, Bad and Dangerous (Pic: Joe O'Shaugnessy)

Watch: Mad, Bad & Dangerous – a celebration of 'difficult' women

Dublin Fringe preview: Mad, Bad and Dangerous is a celebration of 'difficult' women - creator and director Emma O'Grady writes about the inspiration behind the show...

Dublin Fringe Festival • 15 Sep 20

Kévin Coquelard in Emma Martin's Birdboy

Dublin Fringe: Birdboy's Emma Martin - venturing into the unknown

'Once there was a boy who wished he was a bird. He wished he could just fly away and be free of all his worries...' Choreographer Emma Martin writes for Culture about Birdboy, her new show for this year's Dublin Fringe...

Dublin Fringe • 01 Sep 20

Twenty Fifty - virtual theatre for the emerging normal

'This show has been with us throughout the lockdown. It has experienced the same emotional hits that we have, it has adapted, it has been resilient...' Theatremakers Dan Colley and Fionnuala Gygax write for Culture about their new show...

Theatre • 01 Sep 20

Caitriona Ennis stars in Janet Moran's A Holy Show

Listen: A Holy Show - Janet Moran's hilarious Drama On One play

Drama On One: Adapted from the hit stage comedy by Janet Moran, A Holy Show is based on the true story of the hijacking of an Aer Lingus plane in 1981...

RTÉ Drama On One • 14 Oct 19

A blend of circus and theatre is coming to the Dublin Fringe

How to Square a Circle, Aisling Ní Cheallaigh and Ronan Brady's brand new blend of circus and theatre, is coming to the Dublin Fringe Festival.

Theatre • 17 Sep 19

Alessandra Ruggeri and Ailish Maher in INIT: The Warm Up Project by Lucia Kickham (Pic: Luca Truffarelli)

Choreographer Lucia Kickham: warming up the Dublin Fringe

Dancer and choreographer Lucia Kickham writes for Culture about Init, The Warm Up Project, which runs at this year's Dublin Fringe, and creating a dance work 'filled with vitality and honesty, movement and sweat and head-bopping music

Dublin Fringe • 13 Sep 19

Extra Ordinary: Claudia O'Doherty, Maeve Higgins, Barry Ward, Enda Loughman, Will Forte and Mike Ahern in Texas. (Pic: Robin Marchant/Getty Images for Twitter)

Something For The Weekend: D.A.D.D.Y.'s Cultural Picks

Filmmakers Mike Ahern & Enda Loughman are making their feature film debut with the supernatural comedy Super Natural, starring Maeve Higgins and Will Forte, in Irish cinemas now.

Something For The Weekend • 13 Sep 19

Bodies Of Water - one of the many productions at this year's Dublin Fringe

Dublin Fringe Festival at 25 - previewing this year's programme

Dublin Fringe Festival Director Ruth McGowan gives us a preview of this year's programme...

Theatre • 06 Sep 19

Making a show of myself - Scottee at Dublin Fringe

Artist and writer Scottee writes for Culture about Things We've Always Wanted to Tell You, a newly devised piece of work premiering at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival.

Dublin Fringe • 05 Sep 19

Dublin Fringe 2019: Natalie Palmides in NATE

Natalie Palmides - a madwoman with a mustache at Dublin Fringe

Los Angeles based comedian Natalie Palmides was voted Best Newcomer at the 2018 Edinburgh Comedy, and she's the voice of Buttercup on the reboot of banimated series PowerPuff Girls – now she's coming to this year's Dublin Fringe with her male alter ego...

Dublin Fringe • 10 Sep 19

Alma Kelliher, AKA Lux Alma, is coming to this year's Dublin Fringe

Alma de Lux - Alma Kelliher on her Dublin Fringe show

Composer and musician Alma Kelliher takes a leap of faith at her creative home, the Dublin Fringe Festival, and debuts her first ever solo show, LUX ALMA - she writes for Culture about how it all came together.

Dublin Fringe • 09 Sep 19

Symphony of Worms - Hannah Mamalis on her new show

Hannah Mamalis premieres her new solo show Symphony of Worms at Dublin Fringe 2019 - here, she writes for Culture about exploring the complex nature of expression and creativity, while traversing themes of sex, death, loneliness, intimacy and connection.

Dublin Fringe • 04 Sep 19

Clelia Murphy in GYM SWIM PARTY, coming to this year's Dublin Fringe Festival.

Something for the Weekend – Clelia Murphy's cultural picks

Choice cultural picks from the actress formerly known as NIamh from Fair City, soon to appear at this year's Dublin Fringe...

Something For The Weekend • 29 Aug 19

Blá Blá Blá - comic Bláithín de Burca on her new show

Dublin Fringe preview: Stand-up comic Bláithín de Burca writes for Culture about her new comedy panel show with a twist, where 'hot-take standup meets heated sitdown'.

Dublin Fringe • 27 Aug 19

Aine O'Hara and Vickey Curtis: 'What is it about the GAA that is in all of us Irish?'

Mad about GAA - Vickey Curtis on her Dublin Fringe show

Dublin Fringe preview: Vickey Curtis writes for Culture about her new show GAA MAAD, co-created with Aine O'Hara, which premieres at this year's Fringe, and asks: what does it mean to be GAA?

Dublin Fringe • 25 Aug 19