Dublin What's on
Porcelain at the Abbey Theatre
16 Feb-10 March. Described as a modern-day thriller, this new play by Margaret Perry explores the parallel stories of two Irish women, weaving past and present, fact and fiction.
The story is set a...
Dublin What's on
2-28 Oct. Be prepared for Ulysses as you’ve never imagined it before, warns the Abbey Theatre, which presents Dermot Bolger’s vibrant interpretation of Joyce’s masterpiece.
Billed as a "pandemonium...
Dublin What's on
28 July-19 Aug. Ken Loach's 2014 film Jimmy's Hall has been adapted to the stage in a lively new Abbey production directed by Graham McLaren.
The singing-and-dancing play is based on the true story...
Dublin What's on
6 July-16 Sept. This immersive, interactive production is sure to be one of Dublin's most popular cultural events this summer.
The Gate has removed its theatre seats for the show, which leads the aud...
Dublin What's on
24 June-22 July. The Abbey Theatre hosts Emma Donoghue's stage adaptation of her award-winning book Room, based on the 2008 Fritzl case in Austria.
The play shows how Ma (Witney White) her five-ye...
Dublin What's on
6 Oct-19 Nov. Frank McGuinness, one of Ireland’s most important playwrights, presents a new musical play about family, place and country music.
The story centres around country music legend Irene...
Dublin What's on
26 Sept-29 Oct. All is not what it seems when Kathleen returns to Ireland for her mother Maisie's funeral, as long-buried family troubles simmer to the surface.
Brid Ni Neachtain stars as Maisie i...
Dublin What's on
Observe the Sons of Ulster Marching Towards the Somme
6 Aug-24 Sept. A century after the 36th Ulster Division fought in the Battle of the Somme, one of the worst battles in history, the Abbey Theatre presents a major new co-production directed by Jeremy...
Dublin What's on
9 March-23 April. Set against the tumultuous backdrop of the 1916 Easter Rising, Seán O'Casey's play focuses on the upheaval facing the residents of a Dublin tenement shelter as they are encircled by...
Dublin What's on
16 Feb-16 April. The Gate Theatre stages a production of Seán O'Casey's classic play set in the working-class tenements of Dublin in the early 1920s, during the Irish civil war era.
Following its p...
Dublin What's on
2 Dec-6 Feb. This 1897 four-act comedy of errors by George Bernard Shaw is a witty and unpredictable play revolving around several confused identities.
Returning to England from an extended stay a...
Dublin What's on
Arthur Miller's much-loved tale of illicit desire is set in 1950's New York and is centred on Eddie Carbone and his family who host their Italian cousins, illegal immigrants Marco and Rodolpho.
Whe...
Dublin What's on
This new production by Marina Carr, one of Ireland's leading playwrights, has received critical acclaim since it opened at the Abbey Theatre in mid August.
Described as a "thrilling re-imagining" o...
Dublin What's on
The Olympia Theatre presents the smash-hit musical Once in the city where the story is set.
The modern-day musical is centred around a busker and an immigrant, detailing their eventful week in Dubl...
Dublin What's on
The Gate stages Ivan Turgenev's five-act comedy of manners in an adaptation by Brian Friel, one of Ireland's finest living playwrights.
Set on the Islaev country estate, the play centres around the...
Dublin What's on
The Gate Theatre stages a production of one of the world's greatest stories of love and revenge.
William Shakespeare's tragedy is centred around two young lovers whose deaths ultimately reconcile t...
Dublin What's on
The Caretaker by Harold Pinter
Building on its long-established relationship with Harold Pinter, the Gate Theatre presents The Caretaker for the first time.
The three-act play, which premiered in London's West End in 1960, was t...
Dublin What's on
This classic omedy of deception and seduction by Irish author Oliver Goldsmith was first performed in London in 1773 and its popularity with audiences has endured ever since.
The story centres arou...
Dublin What's on
The Gate Theatre presents the world premiere of a new play about "loyalty, defeat and freedom" by Irish writer Hugo Hamilton, better known for his novels but now starting to write for the stage....
Dublin What's on
18 June-2 Aug. The Abbey Theatre presents one of the finest plays by one of Ireland's foremost living playwrights. Artistocrats by Brian Friel follows the well-to-do O'Donnell family, once influential...
