After last year’s excellent production, we are thrilled to have Laois Open Door Theatre back with us with their latest offering Play On! by Rick Abbott. This hilarious love letter to amateur drama follows a plucky community theatre group rehearsing to perform an original murder mystery, Murder Most Foul by a first time author. The...
Tickets: €5 - Available on the door New Ross, 1985. Bill Furlong is a hard-working coal merchant, doing his best to support his family amid the challenging conditions of 1980s Ireland. In the lead-up to Christmas, Bill makes a morning delivery to the local convent. There, an encounter with one of the convent’s traumatised residents...
The true story of a community grappling with itself after the arrival of 100 international protection applicants. On a rainy evening in autumn 2023 the staff of a small guesthouse in Newbridge prepared to welcome 100 international protection applicants. As buses with men seeking asylum pulled into the new direct provision site they were met...
The Barking Dog Theatre Company will visit us this April with two new productions for primary school children. The first show, Teddy’s Best Friend is for junior and senior infants. Eddy the Teddy has a fall out with Sammy Ragdoll. Eddy decides to go off and find a new best friend but, of course, no...
Valeriia Poliushko is an artist from Ukraine currently in based in Ireland with over 10 years of creative experience. Through her art, she strives to bring warmth and coziness to any space. Her work combines decorative and realistic painting, mixing different materials such as acrylic paints, oil paints and gold leaf. She is always happy...
Red Hurley joins us to perform his greatest hits from down through the years, including Love Is All’, When, Kiss Me Goodbye, Broken Promises, Isadora, A Poor Man’s Roses, Let The Heartaches Begin and many more. Red is considered to be one of the finest performers Ireland has ever produced. His signature rich powerful voice,...
After a sensational run of sold out shows in 2024, Niall “Bressie” Breslin is bringing his multi-award-winning ‘Where is My Mind?’ podcast on the road again in May 2025. Having led a colourful life thus far and being no stranger to a slap from the dark side, ‘Bressie’ has made it his vocation to excavate and discover...
The Murphys will bring their home to the stage, with hits such as Streets of Promise, Dancing with the Fisherman and My Connemara Marble Ring. Songs Around an Irish Fireside is designed around the Murphy’s living room, the place where dad Pat used to sing to his little girls and play his accordion every night...
For one night only we introduce to you a trio of traditional musical genius. Three young men with induvial accolades in music are coming together to create what can only be described as an explosion of talent, fun and thrilling. Damien Mullane In a short space of time Damien Mullane has a musical CV that...
FREE EVENT - Check out the trailer here We are delighted to announce that the May Film Tour, organised by access>CINEMA and the Irish Film Institute to coincide with the Bealtaine Festival, will again take place in 2025. This year the theme of the Bealtaine continues to be Lust for Life, based on Iggy Pop’s iconic...
Laois Fourth Wall Theatre Group presents Bernard Farrell’s situational comedy I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell directed by David Corri. A group therapy session is led by the enigmatic and manipulative Suzy (Mary Dermody). The participants Joe Fell (John Kavanagh), Roger (Kevin Lalor-Fitzpatrick), Peter (Joe Murphy), Maureen (Alex O’Neill) and Rita (Maeve Heneghan) reveal...
FREE EVENT | BOOKING REQUIRED Is Mise Éire Eile: I am another Ireland The true story of a community grappling with itself after the arrival of 100 international protection applicants. On a rainy evening in autumn 2023 the staff of a small guesthouse in Newbridge prepared to welcome 100 international protection applicants. As buses with...
