The latest theatre news from Ireland — show openings, casting announcements, reviews, and touring productions.
Dance Cork Firkin Crane has announced its Summer/Autumn 2025 season with a strong programme of performances, residencies, and professional development opportunities that reflect the breadth of contemporary dance in Cork and beyond.
This summer, prepare for laughter as the critically acclaimed production of Stones in His Pockets arrives at The Everyman from 29 Jul to 10 Aug.
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The Everyman in Cork will present a major new revival of The Beacon by BAFTA-nominated playwright and screenwriter Nancy Harris (The Dry), running 4–19 July 2025.
THISISPOPBABY will bring their OG smash-hit variety theatre sensation RIOT, back home to Vicar Street, Dublin for four nights only this July.
Ready to take your music global? Applications are now open to perform as an Official Showcase Artist at Your Roots Are Showing (YRAS) – Ireland’s folk, roots, and traditional music conference.
Paines Plough has announced the full cast and creative team for Karis Kelly's dark comedy Consumed, a co-production with Belgrade Theatre, Sheffield Theatres and the Women's Prize for Playwriting, in association with the Lyric Theatre Belfast.
The city will come alive with the very best of traditional music, song, and dance, as some of the world’s finest traditional artists take to stages across Belfast.
The producers of the 2025/26 UK and Ireland tour of FRIENDS! The Musical Parody have announced casting for the musical comedy.
The Smuggler, Ronán Noone's award-winning one-man thriller in rhymed verse, makes its Irish and U.
Following last year’s sold-out performance of Love Letter at The Everyman, and fresh from a five-star, sell-out tour across Australia, New Zealand and the UK, Camille O’Sullivan will return home to Cork.
Following a Gala Concert earlier in the year and the launch of its Send It Home campaign to collect historic memorabilia, the venue now returns to the stage with three shows spanning its musical and artistic offerings.
The award-winning MEAN GIRLS THE MUSICAL is coming to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre next year.
The 30th West Cork Chamber Music Festival features a spectacular programme, as eclectic as usual, presenting much-loved favourites alongside world, and Irish, premieres.
The Everyman has revealed the cast for their next major production, the West Cork thriller The Beacon by Bafta- nominated Irish writer Nancy Harris.
Lesley Garrett CBE is the newest cast member to join Northern Ireland Opera’s historic revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Goldman’s Follies at the Grand Opera House in Belfast this Autumn.
Actor and playwright Irene Kelleher will present two original works during the 2025 Cork Midsummer Festival, performing both Footnote and Stitch across multiple dates and venues.
Northern Ireland Opera has announced the first members of the Cast for Follies, with music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim and book by James Goldman.
Irene Kelleher will perform Footnote in the Cork Theatre Collective Studio at Triskel Arts Centre and perform Stitch in J.
Scena will present the Irish Premiere of Strong Wind, a new play by Nobel prizewinning author Jon Fosse, translated by Mai-Brit Akerholt at Smock Alley Theatre.
Hatch Theatre Company and The Everyman in association with Once Off Productions are delighted to present the Irish premiere of Caryl Churchill’s ESCAPED ALONE, at the Everyman Cork.
Back by popular demand after six sell-out tours, World's Biggest Productions bring their thrilling staging of ELF THE MUSICAL, starring dare-devil comedian Jordan Conway, to Wolverhampton Grand Theatre Tuesday 11 - Sunday 16 November 2025.
Cork Opera House has announced long-standing collaborator, Aisling Fitzgerald, as its new Creative Producer in Residence - Opera for 2025.
Irish magician and theatre-maker Daniel Cremin is set to enchant Icelandic audiences with his critically acclaimed one-man play, Why Magic?, marking both his Icelandic debut and the first international performance of this captivating intimate production.
Your Roots Are Showing, Ireland’s Premiere Music Conference (YRAS), has named Belfast its conference city for 2026.
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United We Stand Live - Andy Cole & Andy Mitten Ambassador Theatre (8/11-8/11) |
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Reuben Solo: Someone In This Crowd Will Betray Me The Sugar Club (9/03-9/03) |
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Steve Steinman''s Fuel Injected Magic: 50th Anniversary Concert 3Olympia Theatre (10/20-10/20) |
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Disney Princess: the Concert 3Olympia Theatre (4/21-4/22) |
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United We Stand Live - Andy Cole & Andy Mitten Cyprus Avenue (8/10-8/10) |
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Cana Talks: Optimal Horizons Opium (10/08-10/08) |
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Heathers the Musical Bord Gais Energy Theatre (11/17-11/21) |
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Cats Bord Gais Energy Theatre (3/16-3/20) |
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Celtic Exodus Musical Mansion House, The Round Room (7/22-8/14) |
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The Other Side Of Murder Gaiety Theatre (10/13-10/17) |
