Chris McCormack

Rosemary Jenkinson's new play traces the 50th and 100th anniversaries of the 1916 Rising in Northern Ireland.

Leading Irish writers of today try to get inside the heads of the 1916 rebels.

Pan Pan's production of Samuel Beckett's radio play makes for a beautiful but mysterious promenade.

The foundations of Ulster Loyalism may be shakier than ever but in David Ireland's dark comedy that doesn't come without its sympathies.

Beyond the gate and into the big green meadow, David Bolger's adaptation of Prokofiev's composition shows that it can pay off to take chances on the world outside.

In Siobhán Donnellan's new drama, a visit to a psychic exposes the ways - outlandish or otherwise - we manage the illogical circumstances of death,

Rough Magic's new musical about the the 1971 Contraceptive Train places the event at the fore of the Irish feminist narrative.

In the wake of Brian Friel's death, director Annabelle Comyn's clear production is more than dutiful. In pitting the mythic shapes of the Mundy sisters against the machinery of the industrial age, old Irish symbols are still painfully nostalgic.

Something strange is suppressed under a polite meeting inside a drab hotel. Change and stasis regularly collide in Enda Walsh's drama but transcendence feels possible in Donnacha Dennehy's music

THISISPOPBABY's decision to stage Mark Palmer's 12-part song cycle is difficult to fathom.

A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama. You can't help but see it staged against the current homelessness crisis.

Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful. In this once off performance, she makes a case for the vindication of the artist.

The fictional has-beens of Alan Howley and Jack Cawley resemble anxious players returning to settle old scores.

Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography. Why then is he struggling to break free from his cages?

Dancers Ruairí Donovan and Asaf Aharonson flit as gentle lovers in this showing up of archaic law.

Theatre etiquette is dashed in Kim Noble's epic search for companionship.

To Thomas Bartlett's possessed swoops on the piano, Mx Justin Vivian Bond powerfully sends hexes out into the universe.

The new chapter of Company SJ's Beckett in the City series articulates the ramshackle body of the woman in nationalist Ireland.

If fetishisation of machinery is part of aerial play, Emily Aoibheann's experiment cuts and fuses shapes that show the mechanical taking over.

Popstar-wannabe Xnthony makes his move for Eurovision 2016. Is he parodying celebrity rise to power or gunning for glory himself?