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Welcome to another year at The New Theatre! We have had a busy start to our 2023 with multiple development workshops, a rehearsed reading and announcements for some of our Spring programme. It was a pleasure to host the team from The Corps Ensemble. Pictured are Deborah Wiseman, Jed Murray, Mary Murphy, Andy Crook and […]

As we come close to the end of the year, The New Theatre Team has a little present for our audiences to wrap up this year – Thank you all for supporting The New Theatre in 2022 and we can’t wait to welcome you back in 2023! Happy Christmas and Happy Holidays to you and […]

THAT’S A WRAP ON THE SAFETY CATCH AND DUBLIN BOOK FESTIVAL! A massive thank you to our fabulous actors, and creatives as well as our wonderful audiences for The Safety Catch! We hope the rest of their run goes well and to see them all back in TNT soon! Photos by Al Craig The diverse […]

August 2022 saw two great shows at The New Theatre – “I Could have Been A Dancer” and “Michael and Kitty An Evocation”. Both shows were a huge success and received great praise all around. “I Could Have Been A Dancer” ran for 5 nights with a majority sold out too. “Michael & Kitty – […]

The New Theatre wish to celebrate and mark the centenary of when Michael Collins was taken from this earth. Kitty Kiernan and Michael Collins kept up lengthy letter writing correspondence from 1919 – 1922. When Collins was in London during the Treaty negotiations, he wrote to Kitty every day. Kitty’s worst fears were realized when Collins was killed […]

Don’t take our word for it!! “Ultan Pringle’s script is smart, entertaining, and topical” – Irish Independent- Katy Hayes “Compelling” – Village Magazine – Rory O’Sullivan Must end June 11th. Get your tickets here! Featuring Laoise Murray & Luke Dalton Directed by Julia Appleby Produced by Lisa Nally Photos by Al Craig

‘The New Theatre’ is celebrating 25 years in staging new plays.  Ireland’s only dedicated  motorcycle magazine caught up with Anthony Fox & Leanne Willars – founders of TNT. Photos by Al Craig ——————

bloominauschwitz returns for a limited run after a sell-out success at The New Theatre in 2019. Richard Fredman‘s play is a flamboyant investigation of identity and belonging, combining highly physical theatre with the sheer joy of the spoken word. bloominauschwitz is a one-person Odyssey of Herculean proportions: powerful, emotive and thought-provoking. Meet Leopold Bloom. Kidney-loving […]

New Writing Week – December 2022 May 17th, 2022 NEW WRITING WEEK 2022 – SUBMISSIONS NOW OPEN. Following the success of our New Writing event in 2021, our now annual New Writing Week will take place in December 2022. We are seeking new play writing voices for inclusion in a series of performed readings, which […]

‘That’s When the Sparks Fly’  – live music & a short new play reading. Fighting Words provides free programmes and mentoring in creative writing and related arts to as many children, young adults and adults with additional needs as we can reach. BOOK HERE Click on the links below to find out more about our […]

The New Theatre presents a reading of a new play in development by Whirligig Theatre. Susan is angry; placed in a nursing home, she feels trapped, abandoned, powerless and ignored. She has a memory, elusive but persistent. Is it real or not? How can she be sure and what does she do with the rage […]

  “Donagh Deeney as the Celebrity Brendan is a pub charmer and has an uncanny resemblance to Behan. Owen O’Gorman’s Writer Behan creates a much darker and moodier version of the writer, depicting the bitter reality of his alcoholism. Michelle Lucey captures the unbreakable idealism of the young Greek patriot. The play shines an interesting […]