THEATRE | 9 – 14 Jun
TABOO
Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company
Boys’ School
Following sold out runs in Cork and Waterford Red ‘n Blue Theatre Company present John Morton’s dark comedy TABOO.
In the modern world, dating is a surprisingly complex thing with a lot of unwritten rules. There are certain things you shouldn’t do on a first date. And then there are certain things you shouldn’t do at all.
CLASS OF 2025 GRADUATION PLAY | 17 – 21 Jun
Counting Puffins
Gaiety School of Acting
Main Space
Innis Puffin, a craggy rock nine miles off the Kerry coast is poised for the annual invasion of puffins. Instead, it gets a visit from not one, but two groups of somewhat bewildered humans.
There’s no wifi, only half enough beds and a mysterious man with binoculars. Then there’s the fog. When there’s no way out, no way home, and no way you should’ve come here in the first place … can you count on yourself? Can you count on your friends? Can you count puffins when you can’t see your hand in front of your face?
*Please note that tickets are not being sold through the Smock Alley Theatre box office
THEATRE | 17 – 21 Jun
The Burke Sisters
Basement Productions
Boys’ School
For exactly a year, after the death of one of their husbands, the Burke sisters have refrained from seeing, talking to or even texting each other. That is all going to change today, as the sisters meet in the dead husband’s local to celebrate the end of the mourning period. The recently widowed, much changed, guilt-ridden, Carmel Burke, has a potentially life changing plan that could alter her younger sisters lives forever.
THEATRE | 22 Jun
Table Read
Irish Theatre Institute
Main Space
Table Read is a new actor-focused initiative that creates space for theatre artists to explore contemporary plays, develop their practice, and engage in meaningful dialogue with peers. Conceived and designed by Shane O’Reilly, this initiative focuses on performance and creative exchange, centring the actor’s voice while welcoming collaboration across disciplines.
MUSICAL THEATRE | 26 – 28 Jun
Friends From The West End
PW&Co
Main Space
This June, three Friends From the West End reunite — sharing nostalgic, heartwarming, and hilarious stories from their time in some of the world’s biggest musicals. With rich vocals and a lot of heart, this is a thoughtfully curated programme of close harmony & storytelling — with a pinch of theatrical mischief.
THEATRE | 1 – 5 Jul
The Grönholm Method
No Drama Theatre
Boys’ School
Four candidates arrive to what seems to be an unorthodox interview. As things unravel, they find themselves part of a claustrophobic exercise which takes them to dark places. They can leave anytime they want; yet, they do not.
How far would you go?
COMEDY | 3 Jul
Tom Lawrinson: Buried Alive (And Loving It)
A Lovely Time
Main Space
Everything is awful but that’s okay, argues Tom in his ridiculously entertaining show about family and growing up in a Spanish subterranean cave. A show for siblings who shared a rubbish childhood, shirtless ex-pats, and comedy fans alike.
THEATRE | 7 – 12 Jul
Mosaic
Louis Deslis
Boys’ School
Following on from a Dublin Fringe run and a Fishamble New Writing Award nomination, Louis Deslis brings his show Mosaic, back to Smock Alley where it all started. A Franco-Irish tale of craic, joie de vivre, and everything in between.
THEATRE | 14 – 19 Jul
Bunny Bunny
Nora Kelly Lester
Boys’ School
Bunny is mad. She’s mad as hell and she’s not going to take it anymore…is she?
On the edge of eviction, her love life in pieces and no money in her pockets, Bunny tries again. An absurdist romantic nightmare comedy filled with empty piggy banks, landlord ex-lovers, their new lovers, and a song about hotel soap, Bunny Bunny is a solo clown show about trying to hold it all together while everything is falling apart.
THEATRE | 17 Jul – 2 Aug
A Misanthrope
Sugarglass & Smock Alley Theatre in association with Once Off Productions
Main Space
Supper & Show tickets available
In this swirling and sexy comedy of bad manners, Molière’s France becomes Dublin’s FRANS, a Silicon Docks megacorp brimming with pissants, posers, and plutocrats all grubbing for power and pleasure.
The Irish Premiere of American Playwright Matt Minnicino’s Helen Hayes Award nominated adaptation, from the team behind the five-star (Irish Times) production of Tempesta by Deirdre Kinahan: director/designer duo Marc Atkinson Borrull and Molly O’Cathain of Sugarglass.
THEATRE | 21 – 25 Jul
DANNY RYAN
Benjamin Reilly
Boys’ School
Growing up gay can rob you of your formative romances, but Mark’s on a mission. He’s been in love with Danny since Stonerock Secondary! Everyone’s in college now, the marriage ref totes just passed, and being gay is finally chic… right?
DANNY RYAN is the love letter that every little gay boy never got to send in school. It takes us on a heartfelt first-hand rollercoaster ride through teen angst, junior cup rugby, first loves and… Spin Disco?
THEATRE | 21 Nov
Trawled
Eoin Ryan
Boys’ School
A story you will never forget…
A jaw-dropping story set on the Coral Sea, Australia. An Irish backpacker blags his way onto a prawn trawler. There he discovers a rarely seen world of hard labour and harder fishermen, where drinking, fighting, storms and hungry sharks are part of everyday life.