Thank you so much to @president.ie Michael D. Higgins and Sabina Higgins for the great honour of inviting us to Áras an Uachtaráin last Friday to celebrate our 50th anniversary.

We've just added onstage seats for our Dublin run of The Scottish Play at the Gaiety Theatre as part of Dublin Theatre Festival! Onstage seats are limited so early booking is advised. Auditorium seats are currently sold out but please check online for returns ➡️ tinyurl.com/436r74sv

So great to see this in print! A real pleasure to work on this book with @druidtheatre.bsky.social @methuendrama.bsky.social and of course with the best of co-editors of Patrick Lonergan and Máiréad Ní Chrónín.

It's publication day of our new book! Druid Theatre 1975-2025 50 Years of New Irish Plays Marking our 50th anniversary, this new book collects six of Druid's most impactful plays together in one volume for the first time.

Macbeth opens in Dublin next week! While we await the Scottish Play's return, take a look back at some backstage pics from our July double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth, presented at The Mick Lally Theatre as part of Galway International Arts Festival.

Druid mourns the passing of actor Derry Power, one of the true gentlemen of Irish theatre. We had the honour of working with Derry over the course of three years when he played the role of Michael James Flaherty in DruidSynge: The Playboy of The Western World, all over Ireland and the world.

📣 #jobfairy 👉Producer @druidtheatre.bsky.social 🗣 a pivotal senior role in co-ordinating and managing productions, projects, and literary development on national and international tour 📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/job/producer/ ⏰Closing 6pm Monday 22 September

We're thrilled to see our production of Endgame included in The New York Times' highlights of the upcoming season of theatre in New York! Our five-star Endgame plays the Irish Arts Center for a month beginning in late October. Tickets are on sale now: tinyurl.com/96cy8kwx

There's just a week left to apply for the role of Druid's Chief Executive Officer. The deadline for applications is Friday 12 September at close of business. For more information on the role and how to apply, please visit our website: www.druid.ie/about/news/d...

We're thrilled to announce that we'll be playing a supporting role in this year's DLI/ADCI Playwriting Award, an award for one-act plays written by amateur Irish playwrights, organised by the Drama League of Ireland and the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland. Read more: tinyurl.com/2h33mha7

Druid seeks a Producer The Producer plays a pivotal, senior role in co-ordinating and managing productions, projects, and literary development on national and international tour. For more information, please visit our website: tinyurl.com/36mfnfvf Deadline: Mon 22 Sep

We're so excited to announce that our 2023 production of Sean O’Casey’s The Shadow of a Gunman has been selected as a prescribed material for Drama, Film and Theatre Studies, a new Leaving Certificate subject! Read all about it on our website: tinyurl.com/2hnyr24n

To paraphrase Shakespeare... "Beep beep, something wicked this way comes." 😁

Despite the murder and misery on stage, behind the scenes we’re actually quite a nice bunch of people!

Monday shout-out for our Macbeth stage management team 🙌 Thank you to Asst Stage Managers Méabh Crowe, Rachel Stout and Síle Mahon, Company Manager Eavan Gribbin and Dep Stage Manager Sophie Flynn for making sure the rest of us know where we should be and what we should be doing at all times!

★★★★★ The Irish Times ★★★★★ The Guardian ★★★★★ Irish Examiner ★★★★★ Arena, RTÉ Radio 1 ★★★★★ Galway Advertiser This is the Scottish Play like you’ve never seen it before

📣 #jobfairy 👉Chief Executive Officer/CEO @druidtheatre.bsky.social 🗣Reporting to the Board, the CEO will strategically and operationally lead the organisation to realise Druid’s vision of Irish performance for the world. 📋 www.performingartsforum.ie/.../chief-ex... ⏰Closing 5pm Friday 12 September

There's still lots of time left to visit the photography exhibition 'Joe O'Shaughnessy's Druid' at @kennysbookshop.bsky.social!

To mark our 50th anniversary, An Post have unveiled two special Druid stamps! We are so grateful to An Post and Minister for Culture, Communications and Sport Patrick O'Donovan for this incredible honour.

The Board of Druid seeks a Chief Executive Officer. The CEO will work in partnership with the Artistic Director, who will create the artistic vision and ensure its successful execution. More information on the role and application process: bit.ly/4m1FpJi

We were deeply honoured to receive a message from President Michael D. Higgins @president.ie on the occasion of our 50th anniversary. You can read the message on our website: bit.ly/4lHUdgi

For sure. Saw this on Monday & Marie Mullen & Marty Rea in @druidtheatre.bsky.social Macbeth are powerful performers. Marty Rea goes from strength to strength with every production I’ve seen him in. Esp since 2020 with the outdoor Lady Gregory plays in university college Galway…

Druid Design Exhibition 💀👗✨ Get a closer look at some of the sets, costumes and props designed for Druid productions over the years in this free exhibition as part of our 50th anniversary celebrations.

feel extremely privileged to have seen this double bill. we all know marty rea rules but i think his macbeth is one of the finest shakespearean performances i’ve ever seen. every line feels so newly minted. maith sibh @druidtheatre.bsky.social

Opening Night 🥳 This week we opened our double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth at The Mick Lally Theatre, our home in Galway since the 1970s.

Huge thanks to our friends and neighbours at Charlie Byrne's Bookshop for their wonderful window display to mark our 50th anniversary 😍 There are 35 posters in the display, all from Charlie’s own collection - and hopefully we'll add many more to the collection in the years to come!

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ 'extraordinarily accomplished ... riveting' – The Irish Times on Riders to the Sea and Macbeth www.irishtimes.com/culture/stag...

“By the pricking of my thumbs, something wicked this way comes.” Tonight's the opening night of our Riders to the Sea and Macbeth double bill, the centrepiece of our 50th anniversary celebrations!

“There’s a great roaring in the west” Tonight's the opening night of our Riders to the Sea and Macbeth double bill, the centrepiece of our 50th anniversary celebrations!

We were so honoured to have Sabina Higgins officially open the photography exhibition 'Joe O'Shaughnessy's Druid' this past weekend at The Kenny Gallery @kennysbookshop.bsky.social.

Take a trip down memory lane with a visual timeline of Druid's 50-year history on our new website: bit.ly/3GGiUdz The timeline includes some of the key moments, productions and people in the Druid story 50th Anniversary Sponsor: McDonogh Capital lnvestments

Druid Lane is looking well 😍 Huge thanks to Galway City Council for upgrading the lane with new paving and planters, making our little corner of the city safer and more colourful in our 50th anniversary year!

"The creative economy that surrounds Druid has influenced everything from tourism and festivals to tech start-ups and multinational investment." We were really honoured to read Declan Varley's editorial about our 50th anniversary in last week's Galway Advertiser: www.advertiser.ie/galway/artic...

We're still on a high from our 50th anniversary celebrations last Thursday!

Lots of great reading in today's Irish Times even if we do say so ourselves! 😇

THANK YOU GALWAY! Today marks 50 years exactly since Druid’s first ever performance. On Thursday 3 July 1975, a group of young people took to the stage of the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road and performed The Playboy of the Western World by J. M. Synge. (1/3)

We can't quite believe it but today is Druid's 50th anniversary! In this video Garry Hynes and Marie Mullen look back on the past 50 years of Druid, the theatre company which they co-founded in 1975 with the late Mick Lally. Watch the full video on YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Bch...

Our very first show programme from 1975 📖 As we prepare to celebrate our 50th anniversary this month, we're reminiscing about the past five decades. You can read the programme in full here: bit.ly/44JA1Ez

For our 50th anniversary production, we've come home to The Mick Lally Theatre ❤️ We'll spend the next month here on Druid Lane performing our double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth

It's all getting very real now... it's time to move from the rehearsal room to the The Mick Lally Theatre to begin technical rehearsals for our double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth

"What we're asking inside the room is, do the witches happen to Macbeth, or does Macbeth happen to the witches?" Take a look inside the Macbeth rehearsal room with cast members Caitríona Ennis and Cathal Ryan

Two weeks ago, our friends from Blue Teapot Theatre Company paid a visit to The Mick Lally Theatre for an Accessibility Day.

"Double, double toil and trouble..." Our double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth is in week 4 of rehearsals, not long to go now!

Congratulations to our 2025 FUEL artists who presented their development projects at our annual showcase at The Mick Lally Theatre last week! You can read more about FUEL, this year’s artists and their projects here: bit.ly/4ngxJnU Photos: Emilija Jefremova

We're delighted to announce a new partnership with McDonogh Capital Investments as sponsor of our 50th anniversary celebrations in 2025. You can read today's full announcement on our website: bit.ly/4nghaZd

We're busy transforming The Mick Lally Theatre, creating a brand new experience for audiences coming to see our double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth next month. We can't wait to welcome you through the doors of our Galway home for our 50th anniversary programme!

The centrepiece of our 50th anniversary celebrations is the sold-out double bill of Riders to the Sea and Macbeth at Galway International Arts Festival. But it's certainly not our first team presenting a show at the festival! Druid has proudly been a part of the festival since the very beginning.

50 years of Druid with Garry Hynes | Oliver Callan - RTÉ Radio 1 - a captivating interview telling the great story of @druidtheatre.bsky.social on its fiftieth birthday with also, poignantly, Garry’s movingly expressed insights on loss and grief… www.rte.ie/radio/radio1...

Happy Father’s Day! 👨‍👦‍👦 These photos from the Druid archive feature Dinny (Denis Conway) and his two sons Blake (Garrett Lombard) and Sean (Aaron Monaghan) in The Walworth Farce by Enda Walsh.

We’re about to officially welcome two new actors to the Druid family 👋 Our summer double bill marks the Druid debut for both Emmet Farrell and Pattie Maguire. Emmet, Pattie and the rest of the double bill company are deep in rehearsals – previews begin in under a month!