“OKAY DOOMER!” The Doomslayers are BACK for a live premiere of Season 3 of their chronically-acclaimed podcast – and this time, they mean BUSINESS! BIG BUSINESS, that is! 🎭 Doomslayers 📅 19 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/doomslayers-...

It's Day 11 of Scene and Heard 2026! Join us as we kick off WEEK 3 with today's shows: Civil | John Doe Dole Bots | GG Banshee: She's Lost the Plot Solitary Confinement | Mr. Fahrenheit Ochón | PIPE DOWN Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical Salty Grace | A Swimmer's Guide See you there!

Join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started as a College project has grown into a passion, but the dance steps are exhausting. 🎭 DO I LOVE YOU? 📆 18 - 21 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/do-i-love-you

Being a Mother isn’t easy, it’s hard gruelling work. Being a Mother means losing yourself. Being a Mother is the most difficult job in the world, especially when you are a Mother to a Monster. A dark tale about motherhood, desire, death and secrets. 🎭 MONSTER 📅 13-15 Mar 🎫 tinyurl.com/42aumxb6

We've reached day 10 of Scene and Heard 2026! Join us as we wrap up WEEK 2 with today's shows: BLOCK 32 DUST | This Is Not a Place of Honour 1PM - Boys' School BLOCK 42 A Fight to Remember 2PM - Main Space

Join us for ABAIR: As part of St. Patrick's Festival 2026 Teesside folk quartet The Wilsons perform alongside The McKeaney Sisters from Glen West, Co. Fermanagh 🎭 ABAIR: The Wilsons / The McKeaney Sisters 📅 15 Mar 🎟️ Link in Bio

It's another jam-packed Saturday here in Smock Alley. We have not one, not two, not ..... etc.. etc... but FIFTEEN new shows to sink your teeth into today. See you there! BLOCK 32 DUST | This Is Not a Place of Honour 1PM - Boys' School BLOCK 33 Tripartite 2PM - Main Space

Join us for ABAIR: As part of St. Patrick's Festival 2026. Contemporary folk talent Frankie Archer joins Dublin/Sligo traditional singer Ruth Clinton (Landless, Poor Creature) and Chickasaw storyteller Amy Bluemel. 🎭 ABAIR: Frankie Archer / Ruth Clinton / Amy Blueme 📅 16 Mar 🎟️ Link in Bio

We've reached the half way point of Scene and Heard 2026! Come by our Festival Hub this evening for another chance to catch some of these amazing shows. See you there!

It’s been a year. Twins Polo and Twitch reunite for the night of their twenty-fifth birthday. Their hometown is getting smaller. The only thing there is more of is rust. But there’s a reason Polo left the island. And Twitch doesn’t want to be forgotten. 🎭 HOT MESS 📅 5 - 14 Mar 🎟️ shorturl.at/EXEub

Day 7? Where does the time go?! We have 8 brand new shows on offer this evening. Pop in and join us won't you? The Festival Hub will be open from 5:30PM with shows starting at 6:30PM. xxx

🎭 Sliver Salon: Sarah Schulman, in conversation with Una Mullaly 📅9 Apr 🎫https://smockalley.com/sliver-salon-sarah-schulman-the-fantasy-and-necessity-of-solidarity/ This event is sold out. To join our waiting list, please contact the Box Office at [email protected] or call 01 6770014.

It's Day 6 of Scene + Heard here! Miss out on any of yesterday's shows? Today is your last chance to catch them.🎭 To book tickets, follow the link in our bio to smockalley.com/sceneandheard/ or contact our Box Office at 01 – 6770014

Read all about IVF: What The F?! ahead of its performances tonight and tomorrow in @smockalley.bsky.social m.independent.ie/irish-news/t...

Stylish yet practical! TIME Ltd has delivered the new uniforms for our guided tour to the Mists of Time. Departing from @smockalley.bsky.social, 14:00, 28.02.26. Please wear any sensory aids, hi-viz you require for a comfortable voyage. @sceneandheard.bsky.social @creativeeuireland.bsky.social

WEEK 2 🌟 Come down and kick off Week 2 with us starting tonight! Don't forget you can join us in the Festival Hub upstairs to catch up and have a drink between shows 🎭

NOW ON SALE: Playwright Billy Roche and Actor Gary Lydon present OF MORNINGTON; a raw, unsentimental drama set in a rundown café where three lost souls collide, revealing broken dreams, quiet devastation, and the myths we cling to when the applause is gone. 🎭 OF MORNINGTON 📅14-18 Apr 🎫 Link in bio

Come help us celebrate the curtain call of WEEK 1 of Scene + Heard 2026 with a sunny Sunday packed with shows for your fancy. And don't forget, you can unwind and catch up in between the shows at our Festival Hub located up in the Banquet Hall.

HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY Come and bask in the love of live performance with us all at Smock Alley. We have a jam packed day ahead, so do pop in, catch a show and join us for a drink in the Festival Hub upstairs. PS....we will accept all chocolates/roses/teddies/declarations of love. ❤️❤️❤️❤️

TODAY'S THE DAY! The 10th edition of Scene and Heard kicks off today! Take shelter from the rain in our beautiful Banquet Hall where we've set up this year's festival hub, complete with bean bags, velvet curtains and 'Megabar'.

Critically-acclaimed VOLTA THEATRE COMPANY returns to Smock Alley with a new production of Shakespeare’s gripping tale of murder, totalitarianism and how a person loses their soul. 🎭 Macbeth 📆 23 Mar – 2 Apr 🎟️ smockalley.com/macbeth-3/

Three boys, one girl, and a friend who won’t stay dead. It wasn’t meant to happen this way, it wasn’t supposed to go this far. They didn’t mean it. Sure, it was only supposed to be a mess. 🎭 SIMPLE CREATURES 📆 24 – 28 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/simple-creat...

Visual Art Exhibition at Scene + Heard The project consists of Environmental and Studio portraits, along with candid images from social events and still life portraiture of the fashion and music involved within the skinhead scene. 🎭 DECENT SKINS X TWISTED MELON 📆 12 - 28 Feb 🎟️ Free admission

Scene and Heard hits Smock Alley next week. With over 100 new shows from comedy, theatre, music, dance, drag, acrobatics, to poetry, puppetry, hip-hop, opera and musical theatre - there's something for everyone. 🌟 🎭 Scene and Heard 2026 📆 12 - 28 Feb 🎟️ smockalley.com/sceneandheard/

From John Godber, the multi-award-winning writer of Bouncers, comes a brand new smash-hit comedy. Join Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for Northern Soul. What started as a College project has grown into a passion, but the dance steps are exhausting.

“Do you think you can choose? What kind of heart you have?” Hot Mess is a night out. It’s a club, the sea, a heart, kissing, bathroom stalls, loud music. It explores love and connection, what happens when it means far too much and far too little. What happens when it gets twisted.

The posters have arrived and they're going up around Dublin tomorrow. We can't wait for TimeWeavers to be part of @sceneandheard.bsky.social at @smockalley.bsky.social at the end of the month! Tickets: tinyurl.com/time-weavers

A Grain of Sand is a show that takes a look at war and loss through the eyes of a child, blending Palestinian folklore with real-life testimonies from children in contemporary Gaza. Renad’s story is one of resilience, hope and the right of children to be children. “Beguiling.” – ★★★★ The Guardian

Being a Mother isn’t easy, it’s hard gruelling work. Being a Mother means losing yourself. Being a Mother is the most difficult job in the world, especially when you are a Mother to a Monster. A dark tale about motherhood, desire, death and secrets. 🎭 MONSTER 📅 13-15 Mar 🎫 tinyurl.com/42aumxb6

Excited to have my play produced for @sceneandheard.bsky.social! Join us, Feb 22nd, 2pm, @smockalley.bsky.social for unexpected lols & spooks. smockalley.ticketsolve.com/share/873661... A Fight to Remember: DIRECTED BY: Eftychia Spyridaki CAST: Gabriel Adewusi, Lea Maas, Ralph Sweetman Sutton

Serial killer and psychopathy expert Cheish Merryweather introduces MURDER: STAGED – a deep dive into the embedded lies at crime scenes. Featuring forensics, criminology and dark psychology. An unmissable evening for any true crime fan. 🎭 Murder: Staged 📆 22 May 🎟️ smockalley.com/murder-staged/

Bringing together an ensemble cast of 10 of Ireland’s leading performers for a Freshly Squeezed Work In Progress night out like no other, LemonSoap Productions welcome you all to BallyBridgeWater, Ireland’s most famous fictional town. 🎭 BallyBridgeWater 📆 5 + 6 Feb 🎫 smockalley.com/ballybridgew...

Announcing the debut of TimeWeavers for the 10th @sceneandheard.bsky.social festival of new work at Dublin's legendary @smockalley.bsky.social, 2pm Feb 28th. Huge thanks to @creativeeuireland.bsky.social + @waterfordcouncil.bsky.social for supporting this inclusive, family-friendly show. ♿🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

Three boys, one girl, and a friend who won’t stay dead. It wasn’t meant to happen this way, it wasn’t supposed to go this far. They didn’t mean it. Sure, it was only supposed to be a mess. 🎭 SIMPLE CREATURES 📆 24 - 28 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/simple-creat...

Christopher John Francis Boone, is fifteen years old. He stands besides Mrs Shears’ dead dog, which has been speared with a garden fork, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in a book he is writing to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington. Starts tonight and runs til Sat!

Twins Polo and Twitch reunite for the night of their twenty-fifth birthday. Their hometown is getting smaller. The only thing there is more of is rust. But there’s a reason Polo left the island. And Twitch doesn’t want to be forgotten. 🎭 HOT MESS 📆 5 - 14 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/hot-mess/

Scene + Heard 2026 is here! Join us for 108 new shows - from comedy, theatre, music, dance, drag, acrobatics, to poetry, puppetry, hip-hop, opera, musical theatre and visual art. 🌟 Click the link below for more details and to book tickets 🎭 smockalley.com/sceneandheard/ @sceneandheard.bsky.social

In a politically unstable world where witchcraft and satanic cults chip away at the status quo, a man temperamentally unsuited to kingship seizes the crown by violent means. Corrupted by absolute power he becomes vengeful, paranoid and completely unhinged in his bid to establish a dynasty bloodline.

Join twenty somethings Sally, Nat and Kyle in this hilarious comedy as they develop a love for, and the people involved with, Northern Soul. What started as a College project has grown into a passion, but the dance steps are exhausting. 🎭 DO I LOVE YOU? 📆 18 - 21 Mar 🎟️ smockalley.com/do-i-love-you

Hold Music, live. It’s just like being on the phone! Padraig Dooney returns to the Boys’ School with his one-man musical odyssey Please Hold, which was developed there during Scene + Heard 2025. 🎭 Please Hold 📆 20 - 23 Jan 🎟️ smockalley.com/please-hold/

Bringing together an ensemble cast of 10 of Ireland’s leading performers for a Freshly Squeezed Work In Progress night out like no other, LemonSoap Productions welcome you all to BallyBridgeWater, Ireland’s most famous fictional town. 🎭 BallyBridgeWater 📆 5 + 6 Feb 🎟️ smockalley.com/ballybridgew...

This is Northern Soul for a new generation, but with rising costs, unemployment, and small town blues, has anything really changed? Is this 1976 or 2026? The pubs are closing, hospitality has gone, and strikes are everywhere; but when you’re out on the floor...

Meet Christopher John Francis Boone, 15. He stands besides Mrs Shears’ dead dog, which has been speared with a garden fork, and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in a book he is writing to solve the mystery of who killed Wellington.

Being a Mother isn’t easy, it’s hard gruelling work. Being a Mother means losing yourself. Being a Mother is the most difficult job in the world, especially when you are a Mother to a Monster. A dark tale about motherhood, desire, death and secrets. 🎭 MONSTER 📅 13-15 Mar 🎫 tinyurl.com/42aumxb6

TheatreSports™ is a high-octane improv showdown, fuelled by spontaneous scene challenges, team spirit, and the rising heat a live audience brings to the game. 🎭 TheatreSports 📆 24 Jan 🎟️ smockalley.com/theatresports/

Hold Music, live. It’s just like being on the phone! Padraig Dooney is a youngish man occupying a liminal space where he composes hold music & plays it live down the phone to those trapped in purgatorial waiting rooms queuing for customer support. 🎭 Please Hold 📅 20 -23 Jan 🎫 tinyurl.com/3434bhkp

A powerful conversation about autism, identity & belonging in contemporary Ireland. The conversation will reflect on the diversity and brilliance of autistic lived experience and ask how true inclusion and cultural change can challenge stereotypes. 🎭 Wired Our Own Way 📅 17 Jan 🎟️ shorturl.at/tX2VL

WeAreGriot is a collective of 4 performance poetry artists who were commissioned to compose 4 pieces of poetry thematically connected by mental health stigma. The resulting show ANTIDOTE II is A dose, A herb, A flat 7-up for your mind. 🎭 Antidote II 📆 16 Jan 🎫 tinyurl.com/3ve2cs7h

He Dies in the End is a time-bending, funny and heartfelt piece of new writing, and a riff on time and potential. Winner of the First Fortnight Award at @dublinfringefest 2025. 🎭 He Dies in the End 📆 15 - 17 Jan 🎫 shorturl.at/ei6YS

As part of First Fortnight 2026 Mammary Mountain is an intimate, immersive, haptic experience that explores disease in the body, and how an individual cancer journey sits within the wider landscape. 🎭 Mammary Mountain 📅 9 - 11 Jan 🎟️ shorturl.at/I9raP