The Plough and the Stars was first performed at the Abbey Theatre in 1926. The audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of 1916. Recently performed during the centenary of the Easter Rising, Olivier Award-winning director Sean Holmes returns with this production of Sean O’Casey’s absorbing play. Set amid the tumult of the Easter Rising, The Plough and the Stars is the story of ordinary lives ripped apart by the idealism of the time. The residents of a Dublin tenement shelter from the violence that sweeps through t

There’s one in every family. Being a Mother isn’t easy, it’s hard gruelling work. Being a Mother means losing yourself. Being a Mother is the most difficult job in the world, especially when you are a Mother to a Monster. A dark tale about motherhood, desire, death and secrets.

Nell and Oscar meet on a beach in Dorset. It's 1595... or maybe 1610. Oscar has returned from university and Nell is doing f**k-all. They will meet here, on this beach, again and again, for the next four hundred years. Stuff will change. As it does with time. They will try to keep up. A kaleidoscopic exploration of cultural progress, Wild Swimming is an interrogation of gender, privilege, friendship and the thrill of plunging into the unknown.

Zervas & Pepper, Welsh singer-songwriters Paul Jorvas and Kathryn Pepper, celebrate Joni Mitchell’s music with a live show recreating her iconic songs from albums like Blue and Court and Spark. Celebrating one of the most influential songwriters of the modern age, the show features classics such as California, Blue, Woodstock, Both Sides Now, Coyote, Big Yellow Taxi, and A Case of You. Drawing on decades of experience in folk/Americana, they aim to capture every note, lyric, and nuance with authenticity. Inspired by Mitchell’s artistry, they blend guitar, vocals, and harmonic intrica

Bloop Groop and FLUX Studios present ALEA(s), an audiovisual live‑electronic collective from Brussels bringing together illustrator FSTN, musician and synth‑maker Shakmat, and motion‑graphic artist Boris Wilmot. Born from the desire to create a truly unique live experience, ALEA(s) deliver immersive, improvised performances that blend live drawing, projected video animation and complex electronic music into one intense, tightly‑crafted show. With the audience close around them, the trio build the performance in real time, layering boiling electronics with evolving visuals and hand�

Critically-acclaimed VOLTA THEATRE COMPANY returns to Smock Alley with a new production of Shakespeare’s gripping tale of murder, totalitarianism and how a person loses their soul. In a politically unstable world, where witchcraft and satanic cults chip away at the status quo, a man temperamentally unsuited to kingship seizes the crown by violent means. Corrupted by absolute power, he becomes vengeful, paranoid and completely unhinged in his bid to establish a dynasty bloodline. Shakespeare’s timeless story about the horrors that lie in wait beyond societal breakdown has non-stop act

After its sell out run in The Viking Sept ’24 and also a sell out run in Bewleys Café Theatre ’25, we are delighted to welcome back this extraordinary piece of theatre. ‘A first-class script, excellently directed, with a beautifully judged performance, The Kiss packs a lifetime into a lunchtime’-*****-The Arts Review. Murphy constructs the monologue so well…and is extraordinarily well served by Griffin’ *****- Sunday Independent. ‘One-man tour-de-force… The performance and the play will remain in my memory for a long time’*****- Reviews Hub Eddie has dreams but h

He was a small-town musician and storyteller with a voice that stirred the soul. She was the comedienne of the first family of country music. THE BALLAD OF JOHNNY &JUNE takes you inside the soaring highs and shattering lows of a love story that defined an era. From the stage to the road, through triumphs, heartbreak, and redemption this brand-new musical, created with the support of their family and told through the eyes of their son, John Carter Cash, shows why Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash remain one of the most influential couples of the 20th Century.

When Chantelle and Craoí, two working class Dublin drama students, lock horns over The Plough and the Stars, their combined rage brings forth Queen Povo, a drag-drenched larger-than-life entity who forces the girlos and the audience to examine what they’re thinking about when they think of class. From D'Girlos Theatre, this riotous, razor-sharp debut crashes through class, art, and authenticity with wit, grit, and glitter. A juicy-tracksuit clad call to arms for anyone who’s ever felt too loud, too real, or just too povo.