Opera in the Open returns to the Amphitheatre in Wood Quay Venue every Thursday throughout August (4th, 11th, 18th & 25th) at 1pm. 4th August - Dido & Aeneas - Purcell 11th August – La Fille du Régiment – Donizetti 18th August – The Magic Flute/Die Zauberflöte – Mozart 25th August – Tosca – Puccini Opera in the Open is an initiative of Dublin City Council that presents live performances of operatic work in the open air in Dublin City Centre. Each performance is undertaken in an abridged format, is narrated in English and lasts one hour during lunchtime from 1 to 2pm.

Paul Howard's smash hit musical, Copper Face Jacks: The Musical, is back for a third time at 3Olympia Theatre due to phenomenal demand. Opening at 3Olympia Theatre for a strictly limited run from 2nd - 20th August 2022 The Craic Is Back....Paul Howard's smash hit musical comedy, Copper Face Jacks: The Musical is back at 3Olympia Theatre in 2022 following triumphant summer runs in 2018 and 2019. Fiona O'Carroll (Mrs. Brown's Boys) has joined the cast of Paul Howard's smash hit musical comedy, Copper Face Jacks: The Musical as Gretchen Akerman. She joins Johnny Ward who returns as Gino

Under the title Opening The Gates, the 13th edition of PhotoIreland Festival presents the most comprehensive overview on the History and Practice of Photography in Ireland to date, running 7th July to 28th August 2022 in various locations, with the main venue at The Printworks, Dublin Castle. The main exhibition Images Are All We Have traces the thematic development of the discipline and contextualises the historical background, bringing together the diverse and socially engaged set of contemporary art practices that define Irish Photography today. This survey exhibition on the discipline i