WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL 2026: Review: L'EQUIVOCO STRAVAGANTE, National Opera House Wexford
Rossini's rare early comedy shines with cartoonish visual humor, deadpan comedic timing, and razor-sharp coloratura at Wexford Festival Opera.…
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WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL 2026: Review: IRIS at National Opera House, Wexford
Mascagni’s atmospheric forerunner to Madama Butterfly receives a visually arresting, emotionally charged staging at Wexford Festival Opera.…
WEXFORD OPERA FESTIVAL 2026: Review: THE FIRST FESTIVAL, O’Reilly Theatre, National Opera House
Colm Tóibín and Alberto Caruso deliver a sparkling, meta-humor-filled love letter to Wexford Festival Opera for its 75th anniversary.…
DUBLIN 2026: Review: THE LORD OF THE RINGS: THE FELLOWSHIP OF THE RING IN CONCERT, 3Arena
Over two hundred musicians assemble at Dublin's 3Arena to bring Howard Shore's epic score to visceral life alongside Peter Jackson's fantasy masterpiece.…
DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2026: Review: TESTAMENT, The Gaiety Theatre
Irish National Opera delivers a striking, thought-provoking chamber opera that strips away centuries of myth to lay bare the quiet truth of maternal loss.…
DUBLIN 2026: Review: ALL MY FRIENDS ARE IN AUSTRALIA, Mill Theatre
LEGROOM Collective's interactive two-hander captures a quintessential modern Irish dilemma, but thin characterisation and disjointed pacing keep its emotional weight out of reach.…
DUBLIN 2026: Review: ANIMALS, Abbey Theatre
A surreal and beautifully acted adaptation of Blindboyboatclub's short stories at the Abbey Theatre that shines with theatrical ambition despite a taxing runtime.…
DUBLIN 2026: Interview: Fíonna Hewitt-Twamley On Bringing MYRA'S STORY Home
Star Fíonna Hewitt-Twamley reflects on eight years of performing Brian Foster's acclaimed solo play, humanizing street life, and taking the stage at Dublin's Gaiety Theatre.…
DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2026: Review: LET ME IN, Smock Alley Theatre
A smartly written, tense, and painfully relevant examination of belonging, identity, and the quiet frictions beneath Irish welcome.…
DUBLIN THEATRE FESTIVAL 2026: Review: A MOON FOR THE MISBEGOTTEN, Gaiety Theatre
Eileen Walsh and Marty Rea deliver towering performances in Druid's striking production of Eugene O’Neill's final play at the Dublin Theatre Festival.…
Past Shows
GUEST HOST STRANGER GHOST
Once Off Productions presents a world premiere of Guest Host Stranger Ghost, a new play by award-winning writer Kate Heffernan, featuring a cast that includes Finbarr Doyle, Shadaan Felfeli, and Maeve O'Mahony. This production explores the lives of three mismatched housemates...
The Snapper
The Snapper offers a wickedly funny account of the ups and downs of family life and pregnancy in Northside Dublin of the late 1980s. It is salty and sweet and the Gate Theatre sits right next door to the Rotunda Hospital where Sharon’s baby ‘the snapper’ is born... Roddy Doyle’s...
Assassins
The multiple Tony Award-winning ASSASSINS lays bare the lives of nine people who assassinated (or tried to assassinate) the President of the United States. The nation’s most notorious assassins gather on stage to violently pursue a twisted American Dream… Stephen Sondheim’s...
The Rape of Lucrece
Shakespeare’s tragic poem The Rape of Lucrece, a tale of lust, rape and politics, is haunting, beautiful and violent. The poem’s exquisite tragedy is fully revealed in a hypnotic performance through song and storytelling. Camille O’Sullivan inhabits the souls of both Tarquin and...
Look Back in Anger
This world-renowned 1950's blistering play tackles sex, class, religion, politics, the press and the sense of a country stifled by an official establishment culture.
The Red Shoes
Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tales are universally read and loved by both children and adults alike but we rarely see these on stage. This new commission will bring together some of Ireland’s most celebrated artists and one of Denmark’s most famous fairytales An orphan girl...
Tribes
With excoriating dialogue and sharp, compassionate insights, Nina Raine crafts a penetrating, deeply moving and shockingly funny play. The Irish Premiere of this award-winning play relocates the action from leafy suburban Hampstead to South County Dublin where Billy, born deaf...
The Great Gatsby
Step into this heart-racing immersive adaptation of F Scott Fitzgerald’s seminal jazz-age novel which puts you at the heart of the action. Expect music, cocktails and scandal as you follow the action around all areas of the Gate – The Gate is open – as you dance into one of Jay...
MY COUSIN RACHEL
We are delighted to welcome back the hit production of ‘My Cousin Rachel’ for Christmas 2012, following a sell out run earlier this year. Ambrose Ashley, a wealthy landowner, is wintering in Italy when he meets a distant relation, the Contessa Sangalletti, and everything is...
DA by Hugh Leonard
“If you ran into me Da with a motor car, he'd thank you for the lift.” Hugh Leonard’s hilarious comedy Da explores the relationship of Charlie, a successful playwright, with his adoptive father. In this semi-autobiographical play set in 1960s Dublin, we find Charlie in his...
