#TimeToWrite returns on 15 June!✍️ We are delighted to be joined by writer and director Mark O'Rowe for our June session. ✨Join us on Monday 15 June for a day of community, co-working and creativity. Book your free spot now: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/time-to-write/

Get ready for an unmissable night of savage comedy where no celeb is safe 🔥 Read 👉 buff.ly/iQMGIkS #GCNnews @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

Thrilled to announce the I’ll be bringing a play adapted from some of my short stories to the Abbey Theatre above in Dublin.

Setting the stage for the next few months 🎭 We're delighted to announce further details for our upcoming shows and projects for 2026. ⭐ Read more about our further show announcements and find tickets: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/five-thrilling-projects-for-2026/

📣 Spread the news! We're hiring for the role of Communications Manager. ✍️ Closing date for applications is 5 June 2026. For more information and to apply, visit our website: https://careers.abbeytheatre.ie/communications-manager-292584.htm?rgcref=RGCREF #AbbeyTheatre #IrishTheatre #TheatreJobs

🔈 ANNOUNCING PAF Connects x @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Come see The Whiteheaded Boy on 8 June Book your tickets here www.performingartsforum.ie/opportunity/...

I got to present my theatre design at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social today. Really such a pleasure to meet and talk with folks there, and also to admire my brilliant classmates’ work. 😌

🤩 Yerra! Peter McGann appeared on Oliver Callan's radio show earlier today to discuss making his Abbey Theatre debut in #TheWhiteheadedBoy, coming to Ireland's national theatre from 3 June. 📻Listen back: https://www.rte.ie/radio/radio1/clips/22612539/

🥳 Congratulations to Kilmeen Drama Group! The winners of the Abbey Theatre Award at this year's RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival, will present Ballyturk by Enda Walsh on the Peacock Stage for four performances only, from Thursday 28 - Saturday 30 May. Book now: https://bit.ly/4tvy8Vm

📣 Distillation is back on tour! Following sold-out performances across Ireland, the US, and Canada, Distillation returns in 2026 for a brand new Irish tour. 🌱 Find more information and book tickets on our website: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/distillation-2026/ 📸Patricio Cassinoni

"During the piece’s intense, yet hopeful 75 minutes, the protagonist, simply named Man, relives the violence, loyalty and love that shaped him and the province of Ulster he loves, yet must leave." Kate Demolder interviews Sarah Baxter and Ryan Donaldson for The Currency: https://bit.ly/4nj8LEy

'It allows us to dream' The Irish Times recently visited the rehearsal room for Soft God, a new work by Emma Martin which makes its world premiere as part of this year's Dublin Dance Festival. Soft God runs on the Abbey Stage from 14 -16 May. Watch here: https://bit.ly/4dcOnk3

We recently conserved and digitised a unique typescript copy of Seán O’Casey’s the Plough and the Stars from the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social archive. In this video, Crónán Ó Doibhlin, Head of Special Collections, introduces the document and gives us a closer look at the digitisation process.

"The truth’s a dangerous thing to be saying in a little place" Here's your first look at The Whiteheaded Boy, our bold and bawdy re-imagining of the classic Lennox Robinson play, directed by Annie Ryan. Book now: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-whiteheaded-boy/ 📸 Pato Cassinoni

📣 One week to go! Christos Papadopoulos returns to Dublin Dance Festival with his latest creation, My Fierce Ignorant Step, running on the Abbey Stage from 7 May – 9 May https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/my-fierce-ignorant-step/

🎭 Our Sign-Language Interpreted performance of Do You Come From Gomorrah? will take place on Friday 1 May at 20:00. 🎫 Please contact our Box Office at [email protected] to book discounted tickets. Supported by Arts and Disability Ireland, the Arts Council, and a Private Patron

The road to Gomorrah: Frank McGuinness on his acclaimed new play for RTÉ Culture. The world premiere production of Do You Come From Gomorrah? runs on the Peacock Stage until May 16. https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0429/1569742-the-road-to-gomorrah-frank-mcguinness-on-his-acclaimed-new-play/

Delighered to be at @thestage.co.uk Future of Theatre conference at @sohotheatre.bsky.social Walthamstow on behalf of @abbeytheatre.bsky.social Really interesting programme of keynotes and panels ahead #futureoftheatre

My review of Do You Come From Gomorrah? at the Abbey Theatre, Peacock Stage, Dublin. www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

🎭 Our Sign-Language Interpreted performance of Do You Come From Gomorrah? will take place on Friday 1 May at 20:00. 🎫 Please contact [email protected] to book discounted tickets and to get the best view of the interpreter. https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/do-you-come-from-gomorrah/

🗞️Glowing praise for Do You Come From Gomorrah? Now running on the Peacock Stage until 16 May, Do You Come From Gomorrah? is a memory play, one man’s elegy to a younger self who survived impossible circumstances. https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/do-you-come-from-gomorrah/ 📸Ros Kavanagh

📣 First Look: Do You Come From Gomorrah? by Frank McGuinness, directed by Sarah Baxter In this world premiere performed by Ryan Donaldson, over the course of 75 minutes, we meet a man who has come through a terrible experience with enough humanity left that he can tell us about it. 📸 Ros Kavanagh

Time To Write: May edition!✍️ We are delighted to be joined by Frank McGuinness on May 18, whose new play Do You Come From Gomorrah? is currently running on the Peacock Stage. Book your free spot now: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/time-to-write/

It's tough going, but it's an amazing piece of work. Thank you to the Peacock Theatre at @abbeytheatre.bsky.social for #DoYouComeFromGomorrah

⚡Selling fast! Extra performances added due to demand. Don't miss the chance to see Tom Creed's exciting new centenary production of The Plough and the Stars - must end 30 April. Visit our website to to find tickets: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-plough-and-the-stars-2026/ 📸Ros Kavanagh

Please note for today's performances of The Plough and the Stars (08/04/2026)

📣 Spread the news! We're hiring for a People and Culture Analyst 🔗 More information: https://careers.abbeytheatre.ie/people-and-culture-analyst-285946.htm?rgcref=RGCREF 🕰️ Closing date for applications is 15 April 2026 📸 Ros Kavanagh #JobFairy #AbbeyTheatre #Opportunity #IrishTheatre

Fab show in the @abbeytheatre.bsky.social last night, 'The Plough and the Stars' by Seán O'Casey. Standing ovations for ensemble cast, 100 year old play rings true today.

Centenary celebrations with 100 years of The Plough and the Stars at the Abbey 🎭 https://www.rte.ie/culture/2026/0326/1565272-the-abbey-national-theatre-plough-stars/

Our new collector coin celebrates 100 years since the first production of Seán O'Casey’s “The Plough and the Stars” at the Abbey Theatre. The coin is now available to order www.collectorcoins.ie/15-silver-pr...

#Nationwide marks 100 years of The Plough and the Stars by #SeánOCasey, now on RTÉ Player: www.rte.ie/player/serie... From 1926 @abbeytheatre.bsky.social riots to modern masterpiece, it still shapes Irish theatre. Crónán Ó Doibhlin & Audrey Whitty (NLI Director) explore O’Casey’s archive + legacy 🎭

"There’s a fizz in the air, which is really special and everybody knows that we’re putting on something that has a lot of history behind it". Eimhin Fitzgerald Doherty, Clive Geraghty, Cathy Belton and Tom Creed spoke to RTÉ about the legacy of The Plough and the Stars 🌟 https://bit.ly/47kQfoH

"You can read it, you can understand it, but it takes something like this to really make you feel it.” Kate Demolder profiles the cast of our centenary production of The Plough and the Stars for the Business Post. 🌟 Read more: https://bit.ly/41pKdzE

🎉ISO: Casting Assistant! The Abbey Theatre requires an interim Casting Assistant for an 8-10 week period, with a view to starting 20th April or sooner. https://careers.abbeytheatre.ie/casting-assistant-284604.htm?rgcref=RGCREF

Saw The Plough and the Stars at The Abbey yesterday. In a packed theatre, local crowd. Fabulous performances. O'Casey powerful and more relevant than ever. Realising not just Beckett, but Edward Bond, came out from under O'Casey's coat. See it if you are in town. #speirghorm

⚠️ Last chance to see Fair Deal! Have FOMO for our current Peacock Stage production? Una McKevitt's Fair Deal is the hottest ticket in town - keep checking our website for further ticket releases ❤️‍🔥 Learn more about Fair Deal: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/fair-deal/ 📸 Ros Kavanagh

Poster Reveal: Do You Come From Gomorrah? by Frank McGuinness In this world premiere performed by Ryan Donaldson, a young man relives his time enclosed in captivity, following the breakdown of his family. Discover more: https://bit.ly/49Xo3Zu 📸Róisín Murphy O’Sullivan 🎨 AAD

Delighted to be in Milan tonight as guest of the Irish Consulate at a reception to mark Ireland week. Also got to see @abbeytheatre.bsky.social co-production of Mirandolina play to a packed house at the end of its Italian/Croatian tour before it comes to Dublin in August.

At @abbeytheatre.bsky.social tonight, to see the centenary production of the classic The Plough and the stars. Let's hope there's no disruption like there was when it was first performed back in 1926! More on about the playwright, Sean O'Casey here: www.dib.ie/biography/oc...

FIRST LOOK: THE PLOUGH AND THE STARS Sean O'Casey's masterpiece returns to Ireland's national theatre for its 100 year anniversary, now on until 30 April 2026 🌟 More information: https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/the-plough-and-the-stars-2026/

The choice of nail polish was very serendipitous. Come for O'Casey, stay for Ivor Norvello. Wonderful Centenary production of the masterful #ThePloughAndTheStars - thanks @abbeytheatre.bsky.social

❤️‍🔥 Fancy a dose of laughter this March? Written by Una McKevitt and directed by Conall Morrison, Fair Deal shows us that there's no drama like family drama. https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/fair-deal/ 📸 Ros Kavanagh

My review of Fair Deal by Una McKevitt on the Peacock stage at the Abbey [email protected] www.independent.ie/entertainmen...

✅ Officially Open! Last night marked the Opening Night of #FairDeal by Una McKevitt on the Peacock Stage. Sharp, twisted and funny, this world premiere production runs until 28 March. 📸 Róisín Murphy O’Sullivan https://www.abbeytheatre.ie/whats-on/fair-deal/

Fair Deal, Una McKevitt’s new play on the Peacock stage @abbeytheatre.bsky.social, is dark, funny and outrageous- 3 of my favourite things. Fab acting, writing and directing. #speirghorm

I am delighted to be re-appointed for another five year term as Executive Director and Co-Director @abbeytheatre.bsky.social I am excited to lead the National Theatre into the next part of its journey, and to do so alongside Artistic Director and Co-Director Caitríona McLaughlin is a joy

💡 #opportunity 👉Theatre Bursary In Producing @abbeytheatre.bsky.social 🗣To support a student participating in @theliracademy.bsky.social Master of Fine Art (MFA) in Theatre Producing. 📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/opportunity/... ⏰Closing Tuesday 31 March

“I directed the play once when I had my own theatre company and have always loved it — it’s just an amazing piece of writing.” Shivaun O’Casey speaks to The Times on The Plough and the Stars and its 100th anniversary. Read now online: https://bit.ly/3ZqunE4

"On this day 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre."

#OnThisDay 100 years ago, The Plough and the Stars by Sean O'Casey premiered at the Abbey Theatre. At its original production in February 1926, the audience rioted. Now regarded as a masterpiece, this provocative play is an essential part of our understanding of Irish history and Irish theatre.