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David Ian Productions and the Ambassador Theatre Group have announced that Scotland's very own Gavin Mitchell will play 'Bob' and Karen Dunbar will play 'Shirley' in the smash hit musical PRISCILLA QUEEN OF THE DESERT when it plays at the Edinburgh Playhouse from Tuesday 15 December 2015 to Saturday

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.

'He is a wretched little brat!' exclaimed George Bernard Shaw in deep frustration at the hold 'Bosie', Lord Alfred Douglas, had over Oscar Wilde.

The New Theatre presents TEMPTRESS by Philp St John, now through Saturday 7th November at 7.

On the 25th of October, in the Bord Gais Energy Theatre, the team that created Tiny Dancer by A Song For Lily-Mae in 2012, the second biggest selling charity single in Irish chart history, second only to the 1985 smash hit, Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, recorded a brand new charity single.

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

Universal Stage Productions, Working Title Films and Old Vic Productions are delighted to announce the first ever UK and Ireland tour of Billy Elliot the Musical comes to the Edinburgh Playhouse from 20th September to 22nd October 2016.

'Wretched Little Brat', a new play about the lovers of Oscar Wilde, premieres in Dublin at the Sean O'Casey Theatre on November 16th and runs until November 21st.

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.

Something strange is suppressed under a polite meeting inside a drab hotel.

Twenty nine years after The Commitments first burst from the pages of Roddy Doyle's best-selling novel, the world's hardest working soul band will be returning home to entertain audiences where it all began - Dublin!

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

With music/lyrics by Mark Palmer and book/direction by Phillip McMahon, I'm Your Man aims, to quote Palmer's note in the programme, 'to lay bare the plurality of the human psyche'; as one might gather from that, it's not exactly a laugh riot.

A cluttered bedsit becomes a refuge in Conor McPherson's drama.

Cork's finest musical talent will be out in force for a major fundraiser on Thursday, 15th  October 7pm at the CIT Cork School of Music.

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

Stefanie Preissner's new play was already promised to Tiger Dublin Fringe when her funding application was unsuccessful.

Luke Murphy's svelte demeanour can instantly give way to warrior-like choreography.

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.