Festival Box Office Opens its Doors!

It’s already been over a week since opening our doors here at the Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival and tickets are selling out fast. Our Box Office has been taking bookings over the internet, by fax and email and in person for some of our amazing shows such as Black Watch, The Cripple of Inishmaan and Metamorphosis. There were queues down the street on our opening day and this year has been undoubtedly the busiest in the fifty one years of the Festival!

The Festival Box Office in Temple Bar has been inundated with bookings for The Year of Magical Thinking starring Vanessa Redgrave. This show is almost sold out, so if you haven’t booked your tickets already, then pop on down to us on 44 East Essex Street or give us a call on 01 677 88 99. Alternatively you can visit our website at to read all about our wonderful shows that we have on offer this year. Each show has something truly special, offering the very best of international theatre.

If you’re looking for somewhere to take the family when the weather is bad, then why not go and catch a performance of The Magic Flute at the Gaiety Theatre. This particular performance is an exciting one for the festival as the performers singing talents were developed through church choir groups, and using African and contemporary instruments. It is definitely for people of all ages. Dodgems, an Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival co-production with Coiscéim, who are one of Ireland’s leading dance companies, is promising to be an exciting and innovative production, set on a real bumper track, it will sweep you into an exotic world. Don’t miss out on your chance to purchase tickets, it promises to be a carnival theatrical extravaganza!

Michelle Cleary & Fiona Leamy

Festival Box Office

And we're off!

It’s already a week since we’ve launched, hard to believe we’re at this stage already! After our press launch with some of the cast from the amazing Dodgems in Merrion Square, we launched in style in the very funky Science Gallery - wine and canapés for all! The programme hot off the presses, was unveiled and our campaign “feel” came into its own. This year, feeling is the new thinking where we explore how theatre affects us all emotionally and how the Festival can touch every one of us is such different ways. After all the months of planning there are no more secrets!

This year we have a bumper Festival topping the amount of performances from last year to 286 altogether. A busy 18 days it will be! 27 shows from 12 countries in 16 venues, we will be pushing out the boundaries like never before, presenting performances in unusual spaces like apartments and art galleries, adding new thematic strands to the Festival shows, and a special events section bursting with more panel discussions, initiatives and performance than you can shake a stick at! Not to mention that Vanessa Redgrave is coming to town and that we have secured the biggest show in the world at the moment - Black Watch is one not to miss!

Take a look at the website, soak it all in, plan like you've never planned before. Box Office opens August 20 but if you want the best seats in the house, you can book now and become our Friend

Shauna Lyons

Acting Marketing Manager
Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival | September 25 – October 12