From amazing the judges on America’s Got Talent, to headlining in Las Vegas, to selling out shows in London's West End, Peter Antoniou’s mind reading skills have astounded audiences around the globe. Combining razor-sharp British wit with a stunning ability to know exactly what you are thinking, Peter’s shows are interactive and unforgettable. Join him as he reads minds and tickles funny bones, telling jokes and fortunes live onstage.

Samhain night where spirits roam,  Something crawls into my bones… Alice, in the basement for seven months...  Forgotten girl with her face all torn,  A shadow of shame and scorn.  On Samhain night, she is reborn.  Sinister, unsettling and unrelentingly atmospheric, this play is not for the faint-hearted. For those who dare, Stitch promises an unforgettable theatrical experience. A homage to Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, Stitch explores our capacity to be both monster and maker and what happens when the lines between them blur.  The critically-acclaimed hit at Cork Midsummer Festival in 2025, it won Best Site Specific Experience, Best Company and Best Tech Team in The Arts Review’s 2025 awards. Irene Kelleher’s performance was hailed as “a tour de force”. Praised by the Irish Examiner as “remarkable” and “truly heartrending." Now, this celebrated production comes to Dublin for the first time.  From the team behind Gone Full Havisham (Irene Kelleher, Regina Crowley and Cormac O’Connor) and presented by Mighty Oak Productions, Stitch reveals the monster and maker in us all. Sharp, slick, utterly unmissable. A fever dream you won't want to wake up from. Stitch premiered at Cork Midsummer Festival in 2025 and was co-funded by Cork Midsummer Festival, Cork City Council, and Mighty Oak Productions. Age Suitability: Strictly 18+ Warnings: Adult themes, horror ISL Interpreted Performance: Sat 24 Oct @ 7pm WRITTEN BY Irene Kelleher  DIRECTED BY Regina Crowley  LIGHTING & SOUND DESIGN BY Cormac O’Connor  SET DESIGN BY Jenny Whyte  COSTUME DESIGN BY Valentina Gambardella  PRODUCER/PRODUCTION MANAGER Michael Anthony Greene LIGHTING TECHNICIAN Eoin Winning STAGE MANAGER Abbie O'Halloran ISL INTERPRETERS Alvean Jones and Bernadette Ferguson CAST Irene Kelleher  TICKETS €20 RUNNING TIME 1 hr no interval

In Plain Sight is a powerful off-site performance taking place at The Pillar Room Dublin and supported by Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley. In a delicate and compassionate exploration through story and song, activist/performer Noelle Brown and singer/architect Camille O’Sullivan question the links between inconvenient history and place, focusing on the church run and state approved Mother and Baby homes at Roscrea, Castlepollard and Bessborough. Directed by Veronica Coburn, with sound and original music by Denis Clohessy and lighting by Bill Woodland, In Plain Sight is a unique theatre event that is part town hall talks and part documentary theatre. It shines a light on community and nation, questioning who we are and how we can move forward while still grappling within the shadows of Church and State. Supported by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon, Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley, Theatre Royal, Waterford, SETU Waterford, Riverbank Arts Centre, Newbridge, An Grianán Theatre, Letterkenny, Backstage Theatre, Longford, Everyman Theatre, Cork, The Source, Thurles, Pavilion Theatre, Dún Loaghaire, Axis Theatre, Ballymun and the Irish Theatre Institute. Funded by The Arts Council / An Chomhairle Ealaíon. Age Suitability: 12+ with an adult Warnings: Please be advised that this work deals with traumatic national history. WRITTEN BY Noelle Brown DIRECTED BY Veronica Coburn SOUND DESIGN BY Denis Clohessy LIGHTING DESIGN BY Bill Woodland ASSOCIATE LIGHTING DESIGNER Tiana Kokalj PRODUCTION MANAGEMENT BY Showscope PRODUCER Maura O’Keeffe LINE PRODUCER Bernie Bourke IMAGE CREDIT Leo Byrne PERFORMED BY Noelle Brown & Camille O’Sullivan TICKETS €21 | €19 (concession) RUNNING TIME 75 mins no interval followed by optional post-show discussion ABOUT THE COMPANY Founded in 2006 by producer Maura O’Keeffe, Once Off Productions develops and produces ambitious, innovative and collaborative performance projects by exceptional independent artists. The company works nationally and internationally across theatre, dance and interdisciplinary performance in both traditional and non-traditional spaces. TOUR VENUES The Pillar Room, Dublin in association with Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley 21–23 Oct SETU Chapel, Waterford in association with Theatre Royal 27–29 Oct The Town Hall, Newbridge in association with Riverbank Arts Centre 4 Nov An Grianán Hotel, Donegal in association with An Grianán Theatre 10–11 Nov Castle Varagh Hotel, Castlepollard in association with Backstage Theatre Longford 13–14 Nov Honan Chapel Griffith College, Cork in association with The Everyman 26–28 Nov 

Privilege is inherited. So are the consequences.When a teen’s drunken car ride ends in devastation, the verdict comes down to one question - is it possible to be too affluent to know the difference between right and wrong? Inspired by true events surrounding a shocking legal defence, Affluenza explores the ripple effects of power and privilege.Set against the ultra-wealthy social haven of the Hamptons, Affluenza raises thought-provoking questions about moral accountability, family legacy, and the American justice system. Do any of us truly understand the cost and generational impact of privilege and opulence?Don’t miss the world premiere of this biting and darkly funny new play, Affluenza, written and directed by Andy Sandberg.Affluenza is the first of five plays launching the Mainstage 26-27 season at Riverside Studios, from 26 September 2026 for a limited 8-week run.

He can talk about almost anything. Just not her.A young man from Wythenshawe has been sent on a ten week therapy via poetry course to work through something he would much rather leave alone.He doesn’t like therapy. He definitely doesn’t like poetry. But he would like everyone to stop asking him how he feels.Facing him, a therapist with one question: are you telling the truth or have you told this story so many times you now believe it?So they talk. They play chess. He makes jokes, changes the subject and, once a week, brings in a poem.The trouble is, the poems start getting harder to hide behind as he realises he’s “not f*cking Oscar Wilde”.Act of God is the debut play from Manchester writer Jacob O’Connor, exploring masculinity, class and what happens when a man who can talk his way out of almost anything, suddenly can’t.Rooted in the North, it follows a working-class young man who is very good at being funny and considerably less good at being vulnerable. He can talk about birds, football, chess, almost anything, as long as nobody gets too close to the thing he’s not saying.Until, eventually, they do.Funny, intimate and unsentimental, Act of God asks what happens when the ways you’ve learnt to cope stop working — and whether saying something sideways still counts as saying it at all.And, importantly, it is very funny.Written by Jacob O’ConnorProduced by Elissa Gerrand and WVFRMAge recommendation: 15+

‘Give me a girl at an impressionable age, and she is mine for life’At the Marcia Blaine School for Girls, junior-school teacher Miss Jean Brodie is famously, in her prime.  Each year, Brodie selects her ‘set’. The crème de la crème of girls whom she will shape through art and politics, stories of sexual liberation and titillating glimpses of the women they could become. In return, she demands utter loyalty from them all.  Witty, seductive and swirling in contradictions, Brodie’s mythical ability to invent her own truths and manipulate her girls ultimately leads her to risk everything.    In an adaptation by David Harrower, which sharpens the knives of Spark’s extraordinary work, and with a cast lead by Gayle Rankin (GLOW, House of The Dragon), this visceral production looks head on at our enduring moral fascination with such a beguiling and dangerous character. A new stage adaptation by David Harrower from the novel by Muriel Spark Directed by Vicky Featherstone Featuring Gayle Rankin as Jean Brodie A National Theatre of Scotland Production

Horror author Nick Steen is having visions… A sinister Black Steeple; eerie lights in the sky that look like a Catherine wheel but are not remotely a Catherine wheel… Plus a giant skeleton with a moustache. Are they omens? Auguries? Portenderings of things to come? (Spoiler – yes, they are). For Nick Steen’s imagination is bursting out of his brain and threatening to burst in turn the entirety of Stalkford. Can Nick stop the aforesaid bursting? Or have things already slightly burst regardless? And will there ultimately be a grand finale to this three-book series (aka a trilogy) or a more open-ended conclusion in order to leave potential room for further sequels? (That, btw, will ultimately be Garth’s decision.) From the fevered imaginata of Horror Fiction’s Grand Frightener Garth Marenghi, author of Sunday Times-Bestselling Garth Marenghi’s TerrorTome and Garth Marenghi’s Incarcerat, come three freshly rancid tales of… THIS BURSTED EARTH…*

In the 1950s, gay men travelled to liberal European cities in search of freedoms that were denied to them at home. Places where they could explore their sexuality, find companionship and immerse themselves in homosocial worlds beyond the reach of British convention.Alan Turing was one of those men.Quietly rebellious and ahead of his time, Turing was a man who mathematically questioned the laws of nature while his own nature was criminalised. Gay, sexually curious, hungry for connection and unafraid to demand that the people around him accept him for who he was. He wanted sex, he wanted love, and, beneath it all, he longed for a permanent relationship.Turing’s Law shines a light on the Turing history has hidden in the shadows.This is the story of two men spending an afternoon together in Greece. An encounter that becomes both sexual and intellectual and exposes attitudes that challenge the conventions of their time.Alan is messy, unpredictable, charming, bold, funny, opinionated and provocative. He is not the stuttering, isolated mathematical stereotype who avoided human contact in favour of machines. Nor is he simply the polished wartime hero immortalised on the £50 note.He is a real man: gay, complicated, contradictory and fiercely himself. The man who would become a national hero.In a villa in Greece, Alan spends an afternoon with ‘Man’. Unable to reveal the classified knowledge of what he built during the war, he is forced to navigate a growing dissonance between what he knows and what he can say.For a man who spent his life questioning rules, challenging authority and refusing to accept easy answers, Alan now finds himself caught on the horns of a dilemma.What can he reveal? What must remain hidden? And what happens when the private man behind the national hero is finally given a voice?Turing’s Law is the unspoken history of a national hero and an invitation to meet the man history has hidden.

One performer, two personas, one unsent email. Será Será Theatre's Chop-chop! is a comedy about the tug-of-war between the Spanish and English halves of one identity, where duty meets tortilla and procrastination becomes an art form.Absurd, high-energy and full of physical comedy and bilingual whimsy, it's an hour of laughing at our own contradictions, with the audience right in the middle of it.

This is the true story of Reed Peggram. In 1939 the brilliant young Black scholar from Boston, travels to Paris so that he could live a life beyond America’s racial boundaries. There, he falls deeply in love with Arne Hauptmann, a Danish scholar. As Nazi Germany advances across Europe, Reed refuses to abandon the man he loves. Their interracial queer relationship draws the attention of fascist authorities, eventually leading to their imprisonment in an Italian concentration camp.

Religious divide! Orientalism! Radical avant-garde! A Japanese Buddhist soprano trained in Western music struggles with Christian songs, discriminatory stereotypes of Japanese women, and the search for her own unique voice. A comical yet beautiful songbook from Theatre Group GUMBO, exploring identity, culture and the collision of East and West. Journey through a lyrical Japan across all four seasons, as she discovers a singing style that is truly her own.

Chris Sainton-Clark is the Bardtender. Join him for an hour of witty, highly lyrical comedy observational tales of bar work, British pub culture and beyond. Since embarking on his journey as a storyteller, Chris has played Glastonbury Festival, won 12 theatre awards, and sold out his Pub Tales tour in New Zealand. He blends comedy, rhythmic guitar patterns and spoken word together to create a truly unique sound, that draws on something entirely relatable to anyone who’s ever stepped foot in a pub.