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Austen’s Women: LADY SUSAN

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Dyad Productions From the award-winning creators of Austen’s Women, A Christmas Carol, I, Elizabeth, Female Gothic, Christmas Gothic, and A Room of One’s Own. Austen’s Women are back - in a brand-new show!  Devil-may-care Lady Susan, the coquettish black widow, hunting down not one, but two, fortunes; oppressed, rebellious daughter Frederica; long-suffering sister-in-law Catherine; family

€15 – €18

The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Mysterious Case of Kitsy Rainey is a new one man show written and performed by Mikel Murfi. Following on from The Man In the Woman's Shoes and I Hear You and Rejoice, the new piece, the third in the series, takes us on a very unusual and otherworldly journey. Having married Kitsy Rainey late

€18 – €20

Once Off Productions Presents The Hare

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

She’s an odd one; a lonely girl living at the edge of the world, ridiculed by her peers and unable to fit in. Torn between the society that rejects her & her own wilder nature, she creates her own world, and lives as best she can. She sees the rest of them, but holds them

€18 – €20

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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Hamlet

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, widely regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. For over 400 years this epic tale of deceit, love, and revenge has enraptured audiences and has perhaps done more than any of his works to earn Shakespeare his place is the preeminent playwright

€15 – €20
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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Hamlet

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, widely regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. For over 400 years this epic tale of deceit, love, and revenge has enraptured audiences and has perhaps done more than any of his works to earn Shakespeare his place is the preeminent playwright

€15 – €20
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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Hamlet

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, widely regarded as one of the greatest plays ever written. For over 400 years this epic tale of deceit, love, and revenge has enraptured audiences and has perhaps done more than any of his works to earn Shakespeare his place is the preeminent playwright

€15 – €20

Fred & Alice

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Love in the time of OCD written by award winning writer John Sheehy performed by Ciaran Bermingham and Cora Fenton Fred & Alice is a blistering head wreck played at a hilarious pace! It’s not easy to get by in this crazy old world, is it? But Fred and Alice have discovered that all you

€14 – €16

Pan Pan’s Cascando by Samuel Beckett

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Accompany Samuel Beckett’s curious figures into an uncertain future. Attired in dark cloaks and given headphones, audiences are guided through a rhythmic, immersive, group choreographical experience. First broadcast in 1963, Cascando begins with the curious character Opener (Daniel Reardon) setting the scene: the month of May, a time of “reawakening”.  The Opener commands two other

€10

Sightless Cinema

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

- audio plays in the dark- by Sightless Cinema with Ciarán Taylor ‘Spectacular performance…a thoroughly immersive experience’ Meath Chronicle Sightless Cinema - an evening of audio plays in the dark is a fun filled programme of short surround sound audio plays, where all the pictures are in your head! Optional blindfolds provided, for an immersive sound experience. Featuring a surprising and entertaining mix

€5 – €9

Paddy Cullivan – I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT IRELAND

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join Paddy on a hilariously insightful journey through the history of partition and the Ireland of the future... Imagine this. It's 2032. The people have spoken on both sides of the border and Ireland is a brand new 32-county country. There's a new flag. A new anthem. There's even a new capital! As Unionists holiday in

€18

The Pension Plan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Maybe you were away last year or maybe you just couldn’t get a ticket but, cheer up, because, responding to demand, Beezneez are back with John McDwyer’s rip roaring comedy about the bachelor Flanagan brothers who live a life of peaceful contentment on their hillside farm, disturbed only by the persistent efforts of their spinster

€18 – €20

Morag, You’re a Long Time Deid

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A QUEER CEILIDH MUSIC-THEATRE EXPERIENCE Morag's death left a silence in her place. When her Canadian granddaughter Sam inherits Morag's piano, Sam also inherits the mystery of her Scottish granny's story. An intimate letter composed of fragmented ballads leads Sam to uncover Morag's possible queerness and discover a voice of her own. This dynamic, experimental

€18 – €20

Callings

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

“There’s queers in every county, homosexuals in the every hamlet, gays in every gable. And tonight you’ll be talking to some of them.” As the 70’s rage on, the telephone rings…  Callings follows five queer people who found sanctuary and community on the other end of the phone by seeking solace in Cara-Friend – a

€18 – €20

Fishamble’s OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

‘War makes heroes and demons doesn’t it, so how could war in Ireland be any different?’ Told through the prism of two sisters OUTRAGE is a play that explores the true nature of women’s role in the Irish revolutionary wars and in particular the effect of Civil War on women’s mind, body and soul. Alice

€18 – €20

SCHOOLS: Fishamble’s OUTRAGE by Deirdre Kinahan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

‘War makes heroes and demons doesn’t it, so how could war in Ireland be any different?’ Told through the prism of two sisters OUTRAGE is a play that explores the true nature of women’s role in the Irish revolutionary wars and in particular the effect of Civil War on women’s mind, body and soul. Alice

€10

Púca Puppets Presents The Holding Bones

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A new original piece from Púca for adults The Holding Bones is a fitting celebration of Samhain, All Soul’s and The Day of the Dead. At this time of year, they say, the veil between our world and the next is at its thinnest. Once we would have set an extra place at the table,

€12 – €15
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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Sunday in the Park with George

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical masterpiece, Sunday in the Park with George. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, and the recipient of 10 Tony, 6 Olivier, and 13 Drama Desk nominations, Sunday in the Park with George has staked

€19.50
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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Sunday in the Park with George

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical masterpiece, Sunday in the Park with George. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, and the recipient of 10 Tony, 6 Olivier, and 13 Drama Desk nominations, Sunday in the Park with George has staked

€19.50
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The Odd Theatre Company Presents Sunday in the Park with George

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company is delighted to present the Irish premiere of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s musical masterpiece, Sunday in the Park with George. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1985, and the recipient of 10 Tony, 6 Olivier, and 13 Drama Desk nominations, Sunday in the Park with George has staked

€19.50

An Nollaig sa Naigín

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ar Lá Nollag cúig bhliain as a chéile a shuitear an leagan seo do DHAOINE FÁSTA (ADULTS) den saothar cáiliúil An Nollaig sa Naigín (‘Christmas in The Noggin’). Is cur i láthair íogair séasúrach é ar dhraíocht ghártha na hócáide, atá curtha in oiriúint don duine fásta (specially adapted for an adult audience), agus is trí’n

Free

Zeitgeist Jukebox

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

“A thing of delicate beauty, I wept the whole way through” The Bell Harbour News On a night such as this, some folk meet up at an old warehouse in response to a notice on a lamppost. An invitation to join the oddest band that ever was in the making of the greatest album of

€16 – €18

Seift

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Aodh has started a new job he doesn’t believe in. There will be no negative consequences for himself, his family, or the country. Fan Linn. Seift is a bi-lingual play about political grifting, the repurposing of language, and Irish identity. It’s about familial relationships, media narratives, and the concept of notions. As Aodh’s job mirrors

Free

Paddy Cullivan’s The Murder of Michael Collins

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Paddy Cullivan, well-known from RTÉ’s Late Late Show House Band, presents a fascinating and controversial exploration of one of the most pivotal moments in Irish history—the assassination of Michael Collins. The Murder of Michael Collins takes audiences on a gripping, multimedia journey through historical evidence, political intrigue, and shocking revelations. This show is not just a retelling of history

€18 – €20

Up Till Dawn Presents Pucked by Cathal Ryan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

PUCKED is a fast paced, comedic, theatrical, one-man blockbuster! PUCKED tells the story of the young and ambitious Matty Daly. Immersed in the GAA from birth, Matty has one dream and one dream only, to play on his senior team. When Matty finally gets called up, we join him as he learns the hard way, that playing senior isn’t

€18 – €20

Chicken

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his star-studded story with an intimate audience - from getting his big break, to his first bird on bird sexual experience,

€18 – €20

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Kildare Youth Theatre Presents The Crucible

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Kildare Youth Theatre presents Arthur Miller’s powerful play which explores the dangers of mass hysteria, political corruption, and the scapegoating of vulnerable individuals. Set during the Salem witch trials, it reveals how fear and power dynamics can destroy lives, offering a sharp critique of societal control and the consequences of injustice. Performances take place on

€6 – €10
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Kildare Youth Theatre Presents The Crucible

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Kildare Youth Theatre presents Arthur Miller’s powerful play which explores the dangers of mass hysteria, political corruption, and the scapegoating of vulnerable individuals. Set during the Salem witch trials, it reveals how fear and power dynamics can destroy lives, offering a sharp critique of societal control and the consequences of injustice. Performances take place on

€6 – €10
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Big Guerilla Productions Present Indigestion by Seamus O’Rourke

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This play has been described as sensitive, hilarious, intelligent, absolutely compelling and refreshingly forthright. A man, whose name we never hear, tells us his story of a life, always slightly out of his control... The madness of a simple rural man... a man shipped off to London at the age of 17…who goes through bouts

€16 – €18

Touch – an exhibition by Kildare Art Collective

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Touch is the first sense we develop, it’s how we connect, explore and understand. It anchors us in the world. In this exhibition members of Kildare Art Collective explore ‘touch’ in all of its forms, physical, emotional, symbolic. Each artwork in this exhibition is tactile and designed to be physically touched, encouraging direct engagement and

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Riff Raff Drama Group Presents Sourdough

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A two act comedy set in late 60s/early 70s rural Ireland. Two squabbling sisters, Molly and Kathleen Ryan, put their differences aside when they find out that their deceased father has left them in debt and the cottage they call their home will be repossessed. With no resources to hold on to their home and

€12 – €15
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Riff Raff Drama Group Presents Sourdough

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A two act comedy set in late 60s/early 70s rural Ireland. Two squabbling sisters, Molly and Kathleen Ryan, put their differences aside when they find out that their deceased father has left them in debt and the cottage they call their home will be repossessed. With no resources to hold on to their home and

€12 – €15
Recurring

Riff Raff Drama Group Presents Sourdough

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

A two act comedy set in late 60s/early 70s rural Ireland. Two squabbling sisters, Molly and Kathleen Ryan, put their differences aside when they find out that their deceased father has left them in debt and the cottage they call their home will be repossessed. With no resources to hold on to their home and

€12 – €15

The Empty Nest

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

by Oisín Flores Sweeney Directed by Geoff Gould Starring Seamus O'Rourke and Joan Sheehy Tony and Sheila are watching television... again. Their children are reared, and their grandchildren are invading their lives. Sheila wants to travel; Tony is determined to stay put. Tony is on a new diet; Sheila could cut you in two with a sharp comment. All that's

€18 – €20

Sightless Cinema Network presents Dog’s Life -an evening of audio plays in the dark-

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

‘Spectacular performance…. a thoroughly immersive experience’ - Meath Chronicle on Sightless Cinema Following a successful debut outing at the Riverbank in 2024, Sightless Cinema return with their new show. Dog’s Life is a programme of immersive surround sound audio plays, which are a feast for the imagination - because all the pictures are in your head. Optional blindfolds are provided to help bring

€10 – €12

Ham Sandwiches and Discipline

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Witness the passionate drive of the GAA fused with dance, disco and comedy in HAM SANDWICHES AND DISCIPLINE. From mammies’ sideline screaming, batty umpires, manic pundits, Tayto eating in Croke Park and teenage club socials, we delve into what makes this sport a national tradition. While injecting this hive of Irishness with campiness and humour

€16 – €18

LemonSoap Productions Presents Boyfriends

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Following a three month affair between two anonymous men, Boyfriends charts the ups and downs and roundabouts of a modern situationship. As they swing through four million one hundred and ninety one thousand possibilities of what they might mean to one another, through time, sex, Madonna songs, nightclubs, period dramas and calorie counting, Boyfriends asks us

€18 – €20
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An Táin Arts Centre and Quintessence Theatre Present Belfast Girls

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

"We have this one an’ only chance. An’ in all the kingdom of Ireland aren’t we – us women – aren’t we damned lucky to be getting out of it?” Set in 1850, Belfast Girls tells the story of five fierce young women who face their dark pasts on a ship bound for Australia, as they leave Belfast in

€18 – €20
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An Táin Arts Centre and Quintessence Theatre Present Belfast Girls

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

"We have this one an’ only chance. An’ in all the kingdom of Ireland aren’t we – us women – aren’t we damned lucky to be getting out of it?” Set in 1850, Belfast Girls tells the story of five fierce young women who face their dark pasts on a ship bound for Australia, as they leave Belfast in

€18 – €20
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Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Kings of the Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In the early 1970’s six young working men immigrated to London. Their aim was to stay a short while and return home successful men having made their fortunes.  Twenty something years later and they’ve spent their lives in manual labour jobs in construction and the only one going home is their friend in the coffin. When they meet

€15 – €18
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Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Kings of the Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In the early 1970’s six young working men immigrated to London. Their aim was to stay a short while and return home successful men having made their fortunes.  Twenty something years later and they’ve spent their lives in manual labour jobs in construction and the only one going home is their friend in the coffin. When they meet

€15 – €18
Recurring

Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Kings of the Kilburn High Road by Jimmy Murphy

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

In the early 1970’s six young working men immigrated to London. Their aim was to stay a short while and return home successful men having made their fortunes.  Twenty something years later and they’ve spent their lives in manual labour jobs in construction and the only one going home is their friend in the coffin. When they meet

€15 – €18

An Evening with Wee Daniel

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Don't miss the return of the award-winning hit show, An Evening With Wee Daniel, for our Kildare premiere! Experience the magic of Daniel O'Donnell live in concert... almost! Join Aoife Sweeney O'Connor for an absurdist autobiographical cabaret as they celebrate quare identity, growing up in Donegal, and their unironic obsession with wee Daniel. From their first

€14 – €16
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Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents A Christmas Carol with a Twist

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This Christmas, Newbridge Musical Theatre are delighted to be staging a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This classic story tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by three spirits who each have a lesson to teach him. However, this time another visitor is determined to put her own Twist on

€13.50 – €18.50
Recurring

Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents A Christmas Carol with a Twist

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This Christmas, Newbridge Musical Theatre are delighted to be staging a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This classic story tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by three spirits who each have a lesson to teach him. However, this time another visitor is determined to put her own Twist on

€13.50 – €18.50
Recurring

Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents A Christmas Carol with a Twist

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

This Christmas, Newbridge Musical Theatre are delighted to be staging a brand-new adaptation of Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol. This classic story tells the tale of Ebenezer Scrooge as he is visited by three spirits who each have a lesson to teach him. However, this time another visitor is determined to put her own Twist on

€13.50 – €18.50