Prison cell comedy reveals different and starker realities

Modern twist on gender-bending comedy comes in from the cold

A magical, marvellous take on dancing to your own tune

A powerful, intimate experience at a crucial historical moment

Cork drama’s compelling script allows a talented cast to shine

Expect 90 minutes of sound and glory at the Abbey

Sara Keating reviews The Playboy of the Western World and The Alternative

After eight years as director of Dublin Theatre Festival, Willie White admits it has not been without its challenges, but he is still delighted to be ‘making things with people’.

Billed as a 'live graphic novel', Villains sets itself up in dialogue with contemporary culture, but its interests are more varied and deeper than that

Spooky and beguiling magic realism for children of all ages

Dublin Fringe Festival’s Young Radicals strand puts the fun into theatre by creating playful experiences for children and teenagers

In an explosively funny comedy, Lisa Tierney-Keogh ploughs deep into the (still inexplicably controversial) minefield of contemporary feminism and no one comes out the better for it

Kinky Boots is as much a about self-acceptance as it is about shoes

In The Roaring Banshees, members of Cumann na mBan establish a nationalist, feminist splinter group who try – and fail – to stop partition by assassinating Éamon de Valera

Curmudgeonly 1960s classic gets turned on its head by gender switch

Cleft is a powerful evocation of family ties and family guilt, and its final image will stay with you long after the curtain call

Pulitzer Prize-winning poet and professor at Princeton university Paul Muldoon also performs with a rock band and is about to tour Ireland with a live sketch show, writes Sara Keating