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Immigrants Ruin This Country LIVE!

Immigrants Ruin This Country LIVE!

What's on
at smock alley theatre
23 Jul
EGG PRESENTS: SOFT BOILED

Fresh from taking over Smock Alley at DMT with their smash hit EGGS FACTOR, EGG is taking over the Boy’s School this July 23rd for our first SOFT BOILED cabaret work-in-progress night.

25 Jul
Apocalypse How?

Come along, release your inhibitions, feel the (acid) rain on your skin and follow our unlikely Queeroes on a journey of self-discovery as they realise that maybe they do have what it takes to survive, thrive and energetically jive their way through Doomsday.

28 Jul - 1 Aug
Making a Show of Myself

Fresh from a critically acclaimed sellout run off-Broadway, nominated for Best Solo Performance by The New York Critics Outer Circle Awards, this is pure distilled theatre. Mary Kate O Flanagan tells six of the tales that made her a Grand Slam Champion Storyteller at The Moth on two continents.

30 Jul
Lost the Plot: An Improvised Musical

Always the world’s newest musical! Every line of dialogue, note on the piano and catchy chorus is fully improvised. Will our hero save the day? Find true love? Face their fears? Run away to join the circus? We don’t know either.

7 + 8 Aug
Underdog: The Other Other Brontë

You know their books but do you know the sisters? The fights and friction, the love and loss. Follow Charlotte Brontë as she navigates the rise to fame and glory for her and the Brontë sisters whilst juggling family, ambition and loss.

20 Aug
Cormac Looby & Pádraig Hughes – ‘horses’ EP Launch

Singer-songwriter Cormac Looby and Galway producer Pádraig Hughes launch their horses EP launch tour with support from Róisín Gowen. This collaborative project tackles themes of anxiety, growth and loss with heavy influence from artists like Phoebe Bridgers, Samia and Ben Howard.

25 - 29 Aug
The Catalpalyst

The Catalpalyst is a theatrical quest that poses urgent questions for the 150th anniversary of the Catalpa humanitarian rescue of Irish prisoners from Fremantle.

27 - 29 Aug
Temple Bar: The Musical

On one fateful St Patrick’s day, Sonny McNamara is tasked with 7 gigs to play around Temple Bar. Everything that can go wrong will go wrong, however the show must go on.

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Smock Alley Theatre lies in an unassuming part of Dublin city. Nestled on the banks of the River Liffey, you would be forgiven for thinking it a quiet little building. Originally built in 1662, The Theatre Royal at Smock Alley gave the world the plays of George Farquhar (The Recruiting Officer), Oliver Goldsmith (She Stoops to Conquer) and Richard Brinsley Sheridan (The Rivals). 300 people attended the theatre each night, seven days a week to be enthralled, entertained and enlightened by actors, acrobats, dancers, musicians and trapeze artists. Now, 350 years after it was first built, the theatre has been carefully and lovingly restored to become Dublin’s Oldest Newest Theatre. It is now once again a bustling hub of theatre, song, dance, art and creativity.

Dublin Municipal Theatre at Smock Alley

In 2025, Smock Alley Theatre became Dublin Municipal Theatre (DMT) at Smock Alley.

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Smock Alley is a key part of the arts infrastructure of Dublin. Here we list the variety of ways in which work is developed and presented at Smock and how you can engage with us to help develop your own work and practice.