Recent Performances

The Centenary Of The Plough and the Stars: A Special Event for Patrons and Prospective Patrons

24 March 2026

Women Take Centre Stage

24 March 2026

Time To Write

16 March 2026

Your Roots, Your Story: Storytelling Workshops

15 March 2026

Explore the Abbey Theatre during St. Patrick's Festival

15 March 2026

Abair Storytelling with Little John Nee and Hugh Cooney

15 March 2026

An afternoon of Abair Storytelling

15 March 2026

Fair Deal

11 February - 28 March 2026

The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin

1 February 2026

In Good Company: Declan O'Rourke and Deirdre O'Kane

11 January 2026

Grianstad 2025

21 December 2025

The T. S. Eliot Lecture 2025

14 December 2025

Winter Grand Slam 2025

7 December 2025

The Women’s Podcast Live – 10th Birthday Bash

2 December 2025

Dublin Gothic Christmas Celebration

1 December 2025

Dublin Gothic

22 November - 31 January 2026

Mission Critical

14 November 2025

Women in Technical Theatre

3 - 21 November 2025

Dracula: The Hunt

2 November 2025

Distillation (US tour)

24 October - 14 November 2025

A Century Of The New Yorker's Irish Writers

12 October 2025

Complaining For Good

7 October 2025

The Boy: Exclusive Patron Event

6 October 2025

In Real Life - National Tour

6 - 24 October 2025

BÁN

30 September - 8 November 2025

I FALL DOWN

25 September - 5 October 2025

Culture Night at the Abbey Theatre

19 September 2025

The Boy: A Two-Play Theatrical Event

15 September - 1 November 2025

+353 Presents: The Revenger's Tragedy

10 - 13 September 2025

Who’s a Big Boy?

6 September 2025

Lunch Punch Power Play Team Building

12 August - 3 September 2025

MARS

7 - 9 August 2025

The Lunch Punch Power Hour in Conference Room 4

31 July - 6 September 2025

Summer Grand Slam 2025

22 June 2025

Static

20 June - 18 July 2025

The Cave: Exclusive Patron Reception Event

17 June 2025

The Cave (Dublin & Galway)

6 June - 26 July 2025

Ulster American

29 - 31 May 2025

Scorched Earth

23 - 24 May 2025

Re:INCARNATION

20 - 21 May 2025

Dublin Dance Festival 2025

14 - 24 May 2025

Specky Clark

14 - 17 May 2025

The Roast of Panti Bliss

4 May 2025

Distillation (Daingean Uí Chúis / Dingle)

3 - 4 May 2025

Antigone and Ireland

1 May 2025

Nimble Brain and Caustic Tongue

23 April 2025

Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar (North American Tour)

15 April - 3 May 2025

The Journey

5 April 2025

National Theatre of Tomorrow: Exclusive Patron Event

3 April 2025

Youth's the Season -?

2 April - 3 May 2025

ABAIR: Storytelling with Jack and Nuala

15 March 2025

MILK مِلْك

20 February - 1 March 2025

SAFE HOUSE (Tour)

15 February - 6 April 2025

Spreading the News

3 February 2025

Winter Grand Slam 2024

22 December 2024

Emma

22 November - 25 January 2025

Dublin Book Festival at the Abbey Theatre

7 - 8 November 2024

GUEST HOST STRANGER GHOST

10 October 2024

Nobodaddy

25 September - 5 October 2024

Tom Moran is a Big Fat Filthy Disgusting Liar (Australian Tour)

24 - 28 September 2024

Grania

21 September - 26 October 2024

Trouble Denim

16 - 21 September 2024

Distillation (Ireland Tour)

7 - 25 September 2024

Speechwriting: Crafting your Speech for a Special Occasion

6 September 2024

Afterwards

6 - 14 September 2024

Imelda May: A Celebration of Lady Gregory

27 August 2024

Theatre in the Making

9 - 30 August 2024

HAMMAM On Demand

18 July - 8 August 2024

The Sugar Wife: Conversations

29 June - 16 July 2024

The Sugar Wife

13 June - 20 July 2024

The Crucible

29 May - 1 June 2024

Night Dances

24 - 25 May 2024

CARCAÇA

21 - 22 May 2024

BLKDOG

17 - 18 May 2024

The Dublin Story Slam: Spring Grand Slam

5 May 2024

Let it be a tale

28 April 2024

Children of the Sun

13 April - 11 May 2024

Elsewhere - Tour

8 - 24 April 2024

Na Peirsigh / Persians

6 March - 6 April 2024

Audrey or Sorrow

23 February - 30 March 2024

Love at First Sight

24 January - 26 January 2025

HAMMAM

20 December - 6 January 2024

Home: Education

15 December - 30 April 2024

Now Must We Sing: Celebrating WB Yeats

26 November 2023

The Quare Fellow

24 November - 27 January 2024

The Gregory Project

15 November - 31 December 2024

If These Wigs Could Talk (Tour)

28 October 2023

Theatre Matters

7 October 2023

Distillation 2023

6 - 14 October 2023

Ironbound

3 October - 11 November 2023

Somewhere Out There You

28 September - 4 November 2023

The Crow's Way

21 - 23 September 2023

Drainage Scheme

11 - 16 September 2023

Untitled Song Cycle

9 - 10 September 2023

An Afterwards: A Celebration of Seamus Heaney

3 September 2023

DruidO'Casey

26 August - 16 September 2023

Like We Were Born To Move

14 - 19 August 2023

Lie Low

17 - 29 July 2023

Girl on an Altar

8 July - 19 August 2023

Theatre Matters

30 June 2023

Translations | Переклади

20 - 24 June 2023

Every Brilliant Thing

9 June - 1 July 2023

The Father

1 - 3 June 2023

LOVETRAIN2020

27 - 28 May 2023

Navy Blue

23 - 24 May 2023

Ghosts On Demand

20 May - 3 June 2023

The Köln Concert

16 - 17 May 2023

Tour tras bastidores / Backstage Tour

5 May 2023

Writers' Workshops - So Where Do I Start?

29 April 2023

Ghosts

15 April - 13 May 2023

An Old Song, Half Forgotten

14 April - 6 May 2023

Tartuffe (Tour)

12 April - 13 May 2023

The Table

1 - 18 March 2023

Our Tethered Kin

9 - 11 February 2023

Tales from the Holywell

30 January - 18 February 2023

Classics Now

28 January 2023

Pop-Up Theatre: Teresa Deevy

28 January 2023

The 24 Hour Plays: Dublin

8 January 2023

The Long Christmas Dinner

10 - 31 December 2022

The Weir

26 November - 14 January 2023

Her, Sive

19 November - 9 December 2022

Haunted & If These Wigs Could Talk

11 November - 3 December 2022

Solar Bones

20 - 29 October 2022

A Whistle in the Dark

4 October - 5 November 2022

Gull.

21 - 25 September 2022

It's All the Same

19 - 25 September 2022

Joyce's Women

17 September - 15 October 2022

Into the Dark Woods (Galway)

14 - 17 September 2022

Absent the Wrong

10 - 24 September 2022

The Rest Rooms

10 - 14 September 2022

Translations (Tour)

16 August - 3 September 2022

Muldoon's Picnic

14 August 2022

R.A.P Party

8 July 2022

Reel Mix

6 - 7 July 2022

Poetry + Film / Hack

5 July 2022

An Evening with an Immigrant

3 July 2022

The Midnight Run - Dublin

1 July 2022

Patrick Kielty - Borderline

26 June 2022

Ulysses

10 - 16 June 2022

Rabbit Hole

2 - 4 June 2022

any attempt will end in crushed bodies and shattered bones 

27 - 28 May 2022

Fallen From Heaven (Caída Del Cielo)

24 - 25 May 2022

Encantado

20 - 21 May 2022

Love Song Part 1: Communities of Dissent - Silver Stars and beyond

8 May 2022

Luck Just Kissed You Hello

29 April - 14 May 2022

An Octoroon

21 April - 14 May 2022

SOLIDARITY

10 April 2022

Abomination: a DUP opera

24 March - 2 April 2022

X’NTIGONE (after Sophocles)

16 - 26 March 2022

St. Patricks Festival 2022: Walls and Windows

16 - 18 March 2022

Turas Cúlstáitse / Backstage Tour

15 March 2022

Mustn't Forget High Noon, Christine, Twinkletoes

18 February - 12 March 2022

Portia Coughlan

11 February - 16 March 2022

Purple Snowflakes and Titty Wanks (London)

1 - 12 February 2022

Bloody Sunday: Scenes from the Saville Inquiry

28 January - 1 February 2022

Persians: The Podcast – Unplugged

23 January 2022

Faith Healer

3 December - 22 January 2022

Floating on a Dead Sea (Longford)

26 - 27 November 2021

Dēmos

11 - 13 November 2021

The Misunderstanding of Myrrha

2 - 3 November 2021

What I (Don't) Know About Autism

26 October - 20 November 2021

Laethanta Sona (Happy Days) at the Samuel Beckett Theatre

14 - 17 October 2021

iGirl

9 - 30 October 2021

HOW IT IS

1 - 7 October 2021

You're Still Here

22 - 26 September 2021

Rescue Annie

11 - 18 September 2021

Speak Softly, Go Far

11 - 26 September 2021

Laethanta Sona (Happy Days) on Inis Oírr

30 August - 5 September 2021

Walls and Windows

23 August - 11 September 2021

Aftertaste

8 - 15 August 2021

Windows 21

20 - 27 July 2021

One Good Turn

21 June - 10 July 2021

Dēmos - films of separation and togetherness

18 - 29 May 2021

Digital Backstage Tour

29 April - 29 October 2021

Declan O'Rourke and special guests

14 April 2021

Me, Mollser / Mise, Mollser

12 April - 30 June 2021

Dear Ireland: Reflections on a Pandemic

20 March - 17 April 2021

Home: Part One

17 March - 17 July 2021

Theatre for One (and a Little One)

29 - 31 December 2020

Theatre for One

18 - 23 December 2020

Dear Ireland III

17 December - 14 May 2021

Abbey Calling

15 - 19 December 2020

14 Voices From The Bloodied Field

20 November 2020

The Great Hunger

1 - 10 October 2020

Mustard

15 - 19 September 2020

Transmission

7 - 12 September 2020

Before You Say Anything

5 - 11 September 2020

This Beautiful Virtual Village

17 August - 17 November 2020

Lankum at the Abbey

15 August 2020

Dear Ireland Continues

10 August - 10 February 2021

Love Letters Straight From Your Heart

25 June 2020

The Patient Gloria (Brighton)

5 - 9 May 2020

Come What Augustine Oyster

3 May 2020

Dear Ireland

28 April - 19 September 2020

Cyprus Avenue (Online Screening)

27 March - 31 May 2020

The Fall of the Second Republic

24 February - 14 March 2020

Hansel and Gretel (Tour)

8 February - 7 March 2020

RTÉ Radio 1 - Nollaig na mBan

5 January 2020

A Very Old Man with Enormous Wings

10 - 28 December 2019

Drama at Inish

21 November - 24 January 2020

DRAFF: Forum on Form

16 November 2019

Pasolini's Salò Redubbed

26 September - 5 October 2019

Last Orders At The Dockside

23 September - 26 October 2019

On Ice

18 - 21 September 2019

Collapsible

17 - 21 September 2019

The Josephine Hart Poetry Hour: Oscar Wilde

8 September 2019

Champions of Dance

7 - 14 September 2019

Notions Eleven

7 - 14 September 2019

Black Jam

7 September 2019

Ask Too Much of Me

19 - 24 August 2019

The Hunger

19 - 24 August 2019

The Big Chapel X (Kilkenny)

11 - 17 August 2019

Closing Gesture

10 August 2019

WHERE ARE YOU FROM?

9 - 10 August 2019

The DasArts Feedback Method Workshop

9 August 2019

Superstructure

7 - 8 August 2019

Summertime

7 - 8 August 2019

Gash Collective DJ Set

2 - 3 August 2019

We Can't Have Monkeys in the House

1 - 3 August 2019

My Dad's Blind

30 - 31 July 2019

Dublin Digital Radio Projects 1 & 2

30 - 31 July 2019

Young Curators Festival

29 July - 10 August 2019

Opening Gesture featuring Glasshouse

29 July 2019

Redemption Falls (Galway and Dublin)

24 July - 19 October 2019

The Unmanageable Sisters

14 June - 3 August 2019

Citysong (Dublin, London, Galway)

25 May - 28 July 2019

Rosas danst Rosas

18 - 19 May 2019

BAOITE

17 - 25 May 2019

La Natura Delle Cose

14 - 15 May 2019

Session

10 - 11 May 2019

CLASS (Cardiff & London)

1 May - 1 June 2019

Trad

30 April - 11 May 2019

It was easy (in the end)

27 April - 4 May 2019

Play(list): Analysing Plays Through Contemporary Song

18 April - 3 May 2019

In Our Veins

10 - 20 April 2019

Ulster American

9 - 20 April 2019

Dublin Will Show You How

4 - 13 April 2019

The Country Girls (Dublin, Cork, Galway, Limerick)

23 February - 4 May 2019

Glasgow Girls

13 - 16 February 2019

Girls Like That / The Panel

13 - 16 February 2019

Thomas Moore Reimagined

1 February 2019

The Ridleys

15 - 26 January 2019

Thirst (and other bits of Flann)

18 December - 5 January 2019

Tiny Dancer: A DJ Set for Kids with Donal Dineen

15 - 31 December 2018

12 Christmas Poems

14 - 21 December 2018

Shame

10 - 15 December 2018

Come From Away

6 December - 19 January 2019

Season 2019

November 2018

Schools Symposium: The Playboy of the Western World

20 November 2018

Asking for It: Afterword

15 November 2018

Mise Mícheál: Schools Tour

12 November - 7 December 2018

Asking for It

9 - 24 November 2018

Double Cross

31 October - 10 November 2018

Rathmines Road

4 - 27 October 2018

DruidShakespeare: Richard III

3 - 27 October 2018

The Lost O'Casey (Out Of The Abbey)

26 September - 13 October 2018

Peaches Christ Superstar

21 - 22 September 2018

?

18 September 2018

Scotties (Achill Island, Mayo)

13 September - 6 October 2018

A Holy Show

8 - 15 September 2018

Madhouse

7 - 22 September 2018

Hamnet

1 September 2018

Jimmy's Hall Today

27 August 2018

FRNKNSTN

17 August - 1 September 2018

Jimmy's Hall (Limerick, Dublin, Galway, Cork)

26 July - 22 September 2018

Manchán Magan Installations (Limerick, Galway, Dublin, Cork)

20 July - 22 September 2018

Foyle Punt (Sligo, Derry, Donegal)

19 - 22 July 2018

Come On Home

13 July - 4 August 2018

Bloomsday: Dermot Bolger & Ferdia MacAnna

16 June 2018

Ulysses

11 June - 21 July 2018

Sylvia

6 - 9 June 2018

So, What Do You Want To Know? Conversations with Nick Cave

5 June 2018

The Elephant in the Room

1 June 2018

The Rehearsal, Playing the Dane

23 - 26 May 2018

Not a Funny Word

19 May 2018

Hard To Be Soft - A Belfast Prayer

18 - 19 May 2018

Catedral

15 - 16 May 2018

On Raftery's Hill

27 April - 12 May 2018

The Plough and the Stars (Gaiety Theatre)

24 April - 5 May 2018

MusicTown: John Sheahan & Colm Mac Con Iomaire

21 April 2018

MusicTown: Lisa O'Neill with Pat McCabe, Cass McCombs & Ian Lynch

20 April 2018

MusicTown: Little Green Cars & Andrew Vickery

19 April 2018

Open Studio

18 - 21 April 2018

MusicTown: The Unthanks with the Orchestra of Ireland

17 - 18 April 2018

Here All Night

11 - 14 April 2018

Somethings

7 April 2018

Here, There and Now

26 March 2018

The Plough and the Stars (London)

15 March - 7 April 2018

Porcelain

16 February - 10 March 2018

Haughey | Gregory

8 - 10 February 2018

Swan Lake/Loch na hEala

8 - 17 February 2018

RTÉ Arena Tom Murphy special

1 February 2018

The Sound of Ireland

30 January 2018

They Called Her Vivaldi

30 November - 23 December 2017

#Abbey2018

29 November 2017

FLYNN

24 - 25 November 2017

Let the Right One In

18 November - 20 January 2018

ISSSD: Projections

16 November 2017

Fire Below (A War of Words)

7 - 18 November 2017

What Put the Blood

25 October - 4 November 2017

Talking Text Workshop: Ulysses

21 October 2017

Josephine K and the Algorithms

11 - 21 October 2017

Tomboy Survival Guide (Canada)

21 - 23 September 2017

Talk Real Fine, Just Like a Lady

19 - 23 September 2017

Birdy

14 - 23 September 2017

Foil Arms & Hog: OinK

9 - 22 September 2017

Dummy

9 - 16 September 2017

The Shitstorm

8 - 16 September 2017

Me, Sara

1 September - 17 November 2017

The Genealogy Project: In Development

1 September 2017

Katie Roche

28 August - 23 September 2017

R.U.R. Rossum's Universal Robots

21 - 26 August 2017

Talking Text Workshop: Jimmy's Hall

12 August 2017

Crestfall

1 - 12 August 2017

Jimmy's Hall - Leitrim

20 - 22 July 2017

Forever (U.S.)

5 - 15 July 2017

Frankenstein: In Development

30 June 2017

Room

24 June - 22 July 2017

Postscript

14 - 24 June 2017

No's Knife

10 - 17 June 2017

The Play About the Baby

1 - 3 June 2017

Deep Dish

26 - 27 May 2017

Displacement

26 - 27 May 2017

Sunny

22 - 23 May 2017

Locker Room Talk

18 - 20 May 2017

A Whisper Anywhere Else

4 - 6 May 2017

High Heels in Low Places (The Last Hurrah)

30 April 2017

Redemption Falls: In Development

28 April 2017

Waiting for Godot

22 April - 20 May 2017

The Train

7 - 15 April 2017

Forgotten

1 - 14 April 2017

Underneath

31 March - 13 April 2017

Silent

30 March - 15 April 2017

Hamnet: In Development

25 March 2017

Dublin By Lamplight

18 March - 1 April 2017

Ballyturk

3 - 11 March 2017

Arlington

10 - 25 February 2017

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