Venue: Monkstown Parish Church
With a wealth of musical experience and exciting new ideas, The Martin Hayes Quartet (The Gloaming’s Hayes and Cahill with Liz Knowles and Doug Wieselman) is simultaneously ancient and contemporary, innovative and authentic.
To celebrate the publication of The Testaments, author Margaret Atwood talks about her remarkable career and why she has returned to her Handmaid story, 34 years later.
The event includes an interview with the author, audience Q&A and exclusive readings by special guests.
★★★★★ The Scotsman
★★★★★ The Herald
★★★★ Daily Mail
A unique collage of Kabuki dance and Irish storytelling, Fishamble’s Forgotten by Pat Kinevane has been a huge international success during the past decade. It is a captivating portrayal of four elderly characters living in retirement homes around Ireland.
★★★★★ The Herald
★★★★ The Scotsman
Olivier Award Winner
Homeless McGoldrig has lost it all - including his mind. Dare to laugh at despair and gasp at redemption in this brave, bleak, beautiful production for which Fishamble and Pat Kinevane won an Olivier Award in 2016.
★★★★★ Scotsman
★★★★ Irish Times
★★★★ Sunday Business Post
Fishamble’s Underneath by Pat Kinevane is a blackly comic, rich and vivid tale of a life lived in secret, a testament to the people who live on the fringes, under the nose of everyday life.
★★★★ The Irish Times
★★★★ The Sunday Times
Before is a new play by Pat Kinevane (Forgotten, Silent, Underneath) with much music, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day this iconic department store shuts - for good.
The Speks present a lively show of nursery rhymes and sing-along songs set to acoustic Irish music which will have adults and kids jumping in their seats!
Tara Breen, Laoise Kelly, Josephine Marsh & Nell Ní Chróinín will perform at Pavilion Theatre together in what is a stellar combination of Ireland’s leading female traditional musicians.
As part of Dublin Theatre Festival.
Fishamble’s A Play for Ireland asks, “what if Ireland was still part of the United Kingdom?” The year is 2019 and it is the eve of the Referendum. The final debate is set to begin at BBC Dublin: Should Ireland leave the UK?
Festival favourite Glasshouse present their highly acclaimed arrangement of Bon Iver’s exemplary albums For Emma, Forever Ago and Bon Iver, in what will be an uproarious evening, with rousing performances of these very special songs.
Join wildlife filmmaker and BBC star Colin Stafford-Johnson on a journey of discovery along the western seaboard of Ireland as he takes you on his Wild Atlantic journey.
Bosco is Bosco, not a boy, not a girl, just a Bosco: a cheeky, lovely, funny, slightly-cracked, irrepressible, eternal five-year-old who lives in a box and who loves nothing more than to just be Bosco and meet all the boys and girls.
Don’t miss the opportunity to see Bosco live!
★★★★★ The Stage
★★★★★ The Guardian
Following sell-out runs at Edinburgh Festival Fringe and London’s National Theatre, this multi-award-winning production comes to Pavilion Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival.
Vladimir & Anton, The Violinists play their classical virtuosic compositions based on popular themes from past and present including: Tarantella Napoletana, Que Sera Sera, Coldplay’s Viva La Vida or Avici’s You Wake Me Up.
Celebrate the power of women in blues history, from the gospel roots of the 1920s through to vaudeville, jazz & 1960s blues-rock, focusing on women and their stories in the evolution of blues music, from Ella Fitzgerald, Nina Simone Janis Joplin and more.
★★★★★ The Irish Examiner
★★★★★ The Sunday Business Post
★★★★ The Scotsman
The story of an ordinary man who embarked upon an extraordinary adventure is brought to life in this multi-award winning, dramatic and humorous one-man show.
Sisters Suni and Mae dream about journeying far beyond our solar system, discovering the secrets of space. Using magical illusions and a state of the art digital LED wall, embark on an interactive journey across the galaxy exploring the wonders of the cosmos using key ideas in science and technology.
Embarking on a nationwide tour, Irish pianist Finghin Collins will perform Piano Sonatas by Mozart and Schubert, a selection from the Ross Tapestry and more.
Three of Europe’s most exciting jazz musicians, Airelle Besson (trumpet), Sebastian Sternal (piano) & Jonas Burgwinkel (drums) will be performing together at Pavilion Theatre.
Following the massive success of The Tales of Hoffmann and Orfeo ed Euridice, Irish National Opera returns to Dún Laoghaire with a stunning new production of Vivaldi’s political and romantic thriller, Griselda.
