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Running from May 6th-11th, we are delighted to be the home of the James Connolly Festival! It will include a week-long James Connolly Art Exhibition. Seven artists have been invited to prepare prints and paintings that will be available to view and purchase throughout the week. Similarly, ‘Grand Canal Demolition Derby’ is a Playstation style video […]

Calling all writers! Our application window for script submissions is now open until May 29th 2025, for writers seeking to be included in our New Writing Development Week. NEW WRITING DEVELOPMENT WEEK Following the success of our New Writing event in 2024, our now annual New Writing Development Week will take place in December 2025 or […]

IFI are screening THE CORDELIA DREAM on April 29th 2025 which was directed by Joe O’Byrne and filmed in our theatre. Funded by the Irish Repertory Theatre, we were delighted to host the film. We completely transformed our space for a one week shoot. The film stars Danielle Ryan & Stephen Brennan. The screening will […]

This Earth Day, April 22nd, join us for a screening of The Oil Machine. How can we break our addiction to oil? The Climate Ambassadors are hosting a special screening of The Oil Machine at 6pm on April 22nd, in The New Theatre, Dublin 2. Join us on Earth Day for an inspiring, must-watch film on […]

Join us on April 17th for a special event with One Dublin One Book. . Free tickets for The Faces of Dublin are available HERE. Doors : 18:10 Event : 18:30 Sharp . Dublin is a city in flux. Writers Estelle Birdy, Kevin Curran, Stephen James Smith and Réré Ukponu will be in conversation with […]

Connolly Conversations and The New Theatre presents International Working Women’s Day 2025 at The New Theatre “Peace, Homes, Bread: Irish women in the anti-war struggle today” On March 8th, a day established in honour of working women and their denouncement of world war 1, the Communist Party of Ireland will mark the courage of women […]

We are delighted to have our doors open again for 2025, with our New Writing Week underway and our recent announcement of the return of Becoming Maggie by Donagh Humphreys! This week we have had the pleasure of welcoming writers Thomas O’Donoghue, Colette Cullen, Jack Harte, Linda Teehan and Colm Maher and their teams of […]

We at The New Theatre want to say a huge thanks to all our fantastic artists and supportive audiences who made this year possible for us on Essex St. . We want to thank our principal funder, The Arts Council, as well as Dublin City of Literature UNESCO, Dublin City Council, and the brilliant Friends of […]

We are thrilled to launch our new Friends programme with updated benefits for those interested in supporting The New Theatre! Become a member today to enjoy early access to all our productions and readings, as well as substantial ticket discounts, invitations to member events, newsletters, local discounts, and more. Membership, starts at just €100 a year, […]

This November we are delighted to presenting four events as part of the Dublin Book Festival at The New Theatre. Writing from the Margins – November 7th Chiamaka Enyi-Amadi and Páraic Kerrigan join writer Aoife Martin in conversation about their own writing, and the challenges and obstacles faced by writers from minority groups when writing and publishing with mainstream press. Enyi-Amadi, a commissioned poet […]

The McKearney’s – an Irish family Independent Dublin Republicans in conjunction with Connolly Books present a tribute night to the McKearney family – legendary Tyrone republicans. In the struggle against British occupation of the 6 counties the McKearney family led the way in every phase. From active volunteers and prison campaigns to political debate, the […]

After a hugely successful Dublin Fringe season, we want to thank all our creative teams and audiences ahead of our Dublin Theatre Festival show opening. We were thrilled to present 4 shows across the festival, which were all met with great audience reception. Congratulations to all involved. Onwards to Dublin Theatre Festival with TRIFLED running […]