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Eric O'Brien stars in Colm Keegan's debut play, For Saoirse.

A Dubliner in crisis - Colm Keegan on his new play

Dublin Fringe preview: Playwright Colm Keegan writes for Culture about his debut play, For Saoirse, which plays at axis: Ballymun from Sept. 19 – 22nd.

Theatre • 28 Aug 18

Peaches Christ Superstar - coming to this year's Dublin Fringe.

Dublin Fringe Festival 2018 - dreamers and doers united

The latest edition of Dublin Fringe Festival brings together some of Ireland's most exciting dreamers and doers to create a programme pulsing with energy, adventure and joy.

Culture • 12 Jul 18

Something For The Weekend: Aoibheann McCaul's cultural picks

Choice Cultural picks from the Fair City star, currently appearing in Lee Coffey's new play From Both Sides at this year's Dublin Fringe Festival.

Theatre • 15 Sep 17

Rachel Gleeson on mock rock opera Gladys and The Gutter Stars

Dublin Fringe Festival Preview: Theatremaker Rachel Gleeson writes about her show Gladys and The Gutter Stars - a quirky meditation on the malaise and neurosis afflicting a generation of twentysomething 'creatives'.

Theatre • 14 Sep 17

Walk For Me - Kate Stanley Brennan on writing her first play

Dublin Fringe Preview: Acclaimed actress Kate Stanley Brennan has written her first play, Walk For Me, for this year's Fringe - she writes for RTÉ Culture about the inspiration for the one-woman show.

Theatre • 14 Sep 17

How THEATREclub made NOT AT HOME - Dublin Fringe Festival preview

My name is Grace Dyas and I am one of the authors of NOT AT HOME, a durational art campaign on the subject of Ireland's abortion laws, that will run at NCAD Gallery from the 14-17th September as part of Dublin Fringe Festival 2017.

Theatre • 12 Sep 17

Amanda Coogan on translating the deaf experience to theatre

Dublin Fringe Preview: Amanda Coogan and Dublin Theatre of the Deaf make a welcome return to this year's Dublin Fringe with a new work appropriating Teresa Deevy's play The King of Spain's Daughter.

Theatre • 08 Sep 17

Shaking up Shakespeare's The Tempest - Dublin Fringe Preview

Dublin Fringe 2017 Preview: For this year's Fringe, Maeve Stone directs The Shitstorm, a 'hallucinogenic west-Kerry riff' on Shakespeare's The Tempest, in the first ever Dublin Fringe and Abbey Theatre co-production.

Theatre • 06 Sep 17

Alison Spittle's comedy life - confessions of a worrier princess

Dublin Fringe Festival Preview: Alison Spittle writes about her new show, Worrier Princess - well, truth be told, she writes about everything except her new show. But we'll let her take it from here...

Comedy • 20 Nov 17

Don't Be Looking!!! The Dublin Fringe Festival show on wheels

Dublin Fringe Festival 2017 Preview: I'm 14 years old, I've seen a lot, but this year I have spent more time than I would have liked in a DPD van being shuffled between Cork and Dublin...

Theatre • 11 Sep 17

Opera Collective Ireland - hitting all the right notes

Dublin Fringe Festival 2017 Preview: Colette McGahon, the Artistic Director of Opera Collective Ireland, writes about their latest production, Benjamin Britten's Owen Wingrave - and the challenges of staring an opera company that puts Irish talent first.

opera • 29 Aug 17

The mighty Lords Of Strut headline the children's programme at this year's Dublin Fringe.

Dublin Fringe Festival 2017 is Live!

In launching the 2017 Dublin Fringe Festival programme last night in Wigwam on Abbey Street, Artistic Director Kris Nelson and General Manager Amy O'Hanlon announced their swansong Fringe programme

Culture • 27 Jul 17

The Earagail Arts Festival kicks off in Donegal this week.

Summer arts festivals - your essential guide

With the summer solstice gone, RTÉ Culture takes a look at what is still to come in terms of multi-disciplinary arts festivals from now until September.

events • 07 Jul 17

PJ Gallagher in Una McKevitt's Alien Docmentary

Documentary Theatre-Maker Una McKevitt in Alien Territory

Una McKevitt is one of the most vital and exciting voices in Irish theatre today.

Culture • 27 Apr 17

Panti Bliss to cause a Riot at Tiger Dublin Fringe

We predict a riot when Panti Bliss takes to the stage in this year's Tiger Dublin Fringe Festival.

Theatre • 30 Aug 16

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