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The Ark at Dublin Theatre Festival - making theatre for babies

This year, as The Ark turns 30, it's celebrating its 30 years of partnership with Dublin Theatre Festival with an exciting new step, theatre for babies.

Dublin Theatre Festival • 25 Sep

The world's onstage at Dublin Theatre Festival 2025

Róise Goan is the new Artistic Director and CEO of the Dublin Theatre Festival, which returns this September with a feast of theatre from across the globe.

Theatre • 23 Sep

History, repeating - Marina Carr's The Boy comes to the Abbey

Dr Tanya Dean introduces Marina Carr's long-awaited two-part theatrical event The Boy, inspired by Greek tragedies Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, which premieres at the Abbey Theatre this month as part of the 2025 Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre • 22 Sep

The Quiet Man returns - bringing a clasic Irish tale to the stage

Playwright John Breen won kudos for his epic rugby play Alone It Stands - now he's bringing an Irish screen classic to the stage...

Theatre • 10 Sep

Worlds on stage: Dublin Theatre Festival 2025 goes global

The programme for the 2025 Dublin Theatre Festival has been announced, showcasing 29 productions over 18 days, featuring work from Ireland and 10 other countries.

Theatre • 23 Jul

The Jesus Trilogy is a stage adaptation of the novels by JM Coetzee

Jesus X 3: Eoghan Quinn adapts a literary classic for the stage

Playwright Eoghan Quinn teams up once again with Hatch Theatre for his latest work, The Jesus Trilogy, which premieres at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre • 01 Oct 24

Exit, Pursued By A Bear is inspired by Shakespeare's A Winter's Tale

Bear necessities - Pan Pan Theatre on shaking up Shakespeare

Exit, Pursued by a Bear is one of the most famous stage directions – thank you William Shakespeare – and that is the starting point for Pan Pan's 2024 Dublin Theatre Festival show.

Theatre • 30 Sep 24

Maeve O Mahony Finbarr Doyle and Shadaan Felfeli in Guest Host Stranger Ghost (Pic: Ste Murray)

The play performed on the sets of other people's plays

Playwright Kate Heffernan introduces her new play, Guest Host Stranger Ghost - the story of three people living in someone else's home, it is designed to be performed on the sets of other people's plays.

Theatre • 01 Oct 24

Pan Pan's Exit, Pursued by a Bear comes to the DTF (Pic: Ros Kavanagh)

6 must-see shows at this year's Dublin Theatre Festival

Outgoing Dublin Theatre Festival Artistic Director Willie White picks his must-see shows at this year's DTF...

Theatre • 24 Sep 24

Valene Kane comes to the Dublin Theatre Festival in Reunion

Something For The Weekend: Valene Kane's cultural picks

This October she features in the ensemble cast of Reunion, written and directed by Mark O'Rowe, running at the Gaiety Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.

Something For The Weekend • 18 Sep 24

Distillation 'takes you to the Irish bog landscape through scent' (Pic: Fergal Styles)

Smells like: Luke Casserly on his olfactory theatrical sensation

Theatremaker Luke Casserly introduces Distillation, which comes to the Peacock stage at the Abbey Theatre this month following an acclaimed run at the Dublin Theatre Festival.

Theatre • 10 Jan 24

The Loved Ones: RTÉ Arena on the Gate's Theatre Festival premiere

In The Loved Ones, Erica Murray's new play, three women are thrown together by force of circumstance – all linked by one man, Robin, who has died six months earlier in London.

Theatre • 04 Oct 23

Marie Mullen in The Saviour by Deirdre Kinahan (Pic: Carol Rosegg)

Somebody save me - Deirdre Kinahan on her provocative new play

Deirdre Kinahan's provocative new play The Saviour comes to this year's Dublin Theatre Festival, charting an extraordinary shift in Ireland's social, political and religious life.

Theatre • 27 Sep 23