| Start Date | End Date | Event | Venue | Time | Cost | Description of Event |
| 09 Sep | 18 Sep | The Ballet Ruse | Project Arts Centre | Previews: Thurs 9 / Fri 10 September : 1.00 pm Run: Sat 11- Sat 18 September : 1.00 pm (excl. Wed) |
€14/11 concession : Previews All Tickets €10 | Once upon a time two budding ballerinas battled for perfection in the sugar-coated world of Ballet. Those hopes and dreams didn't survive.......but they did. This is their story. To a sumptuous score ranging from Tchaikovsky to Lady Gaga, these seasoned performers will surprise and entertain as they struggle from barre to bar in their quest for peace and reconciliation. The Ballet Ruse: raw, honest, with frills attached. |
| 11 Sep | 26 Sep | Dublin Fringe Festival | Dublin City Centre | Various | Various | A barge, a bush, a French diva chocolate cake, gorillas, snakes, a show in a supermarket, contortionists, the sassiest hoola hooper in the world, robots, lions and Manchán Magan in a dress brandishing a chainsaw are among the elite cocktail mixers holding Dublin to ransom at FRINGE, the 16th edition of Dublin Fringe Festival 16-days & nights of explosive boundary pushing performing arts & music. |
| 30 Sep | 17 Oct | Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival 2010 | Various venues across Dublin | Various | Various | Ulster Bank Dublin Theatre Festival – Europe’s oldest specialist theatre festival - is set to celebrate its 53rd year in 2010 with a programme packed with the best and brightest in contemporary theatre. Featuring new and award-winning productions, the Festival will bring the finest in Irish and international performance to 22 venues around Dublin! Running from September 30 – October 17, the Festival will present 31 shows from 10 countries in 22 venues around the city. Featuring awe-inspiring large scale productions as well as smaller, intimate events, this year’s Festival has something for everyone. Large or small, Dublin loves drama. |
| 1 May | 31 Dec | Yeats: The Life And Works Of William Butler Yeats | National Library of Ireland | Monday -Wednesday 10am - 8.30pm Thursday - Friday 10am - 4.45pm Saturday 9.30am - 4.30pm Closed Sundays and Bank Holidays |
Free | The Yeats Collection at the Library includes more than 2000 items, stored in 100 archival boxes, occupying 24 metres of shelf space. |
| 19 Aug | 12 Sep | Fame -The Musical | Grand Canal Theatre | 7.30pm and 2pm | from €25 | Starring RTÉ Televisions “Fame the Musical” winners Jessica Cervi as “Serena” and Ben Morris as “Nick” you are guaranteed an incredible evening’s entertainment at FAME – The Musical. |
| April | Nov | Dublin Literary Pub Crawl | The Duke Pub 1, Duke Street Dublin | 7.30pm | Adults €12 Students €10 | This is an award-winning show that moves from pub to pub with professional actors performing from the works of Dublin's most famous writers - Joyce, Beckett, Oscar Wilde, Brendan Behan and many more. |
| 01 May | 30 Oct | An Evening of Food Folklore and Faries | Brazen Head Pub | 7-10pm | €44 -Price includes Three Course Meal | Experience this unique and enchanting evening of Irish folklore and storytelling while enjoying a traditional Irish candlelit dinner in Dublin's oldest Pub, The Brazen Head |
| Nightly (All Year Round) | Nightly (All Year Round) | Traditional Irish Music and Dancing Show | The Arlington Hotel Temple Bar | 7pm | Show Only Free - 4 Course Dinner and Show €29.95 | Traditional Irish Music & Irish Dancing Show entertains visitors 7 nights a week. The hotel has become world famous over the years for its fantastic show and its genuine warm and friendly Irish welcome. |
| 26 Jul | 25 Sep | The Plough and the stars | The Abbey Theatre | 7.30pm | €25.00 - €33 | Set in a tenement house, against the backdrop of the Easter Rising in 1916, The Plough and the Stars is both an intimate play about the lives of ordinary people and an epic play about ideals and the birth of our nation. |
| 24 Jul | 25 Oct | Public Tour: Life and Death in Ancient Rome | National Museum of Ireland - Archaeology - Kildare Street | 11am | tbc | Tour of the Roman exhibition to explore aspects of life and death in Ancient Rome. Places are limited to 15 and allocated on a first come, first served basis. Tickets available at Museum Shop. No charge for children 16 yrs or under. No booking required. |
| 22 Jul | 05 Sep | Children's Summer Entertainment | Jervis Shopping Centre | 1pm-4pm | Free | A host of Children's Summer Entertainment with magic shows, roving clowns, circus skills workshop, Punch & Judy, juggling workshop, Karaoke, face painting, puppets shows and arts & crafts. Three hours of entertainment. |
| 15 Jul | 31 Oct | Sir John Lavery: Passion and Politics | Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane | Free | Sir John Lavery was one of the most famous celebrity portrait painters at the turn of the 20th century. He and his beautiful wife Hazel, who was born in Chicago, were the original celebrity couple in London society where John enjoyed huge patronage from the British establishment. They counted Winston Churchill among their friends and Hazel, herself an artist, taught him to paint. The exhibition is accompanied by a catalogue with new research and essay by Sinéad McCoole, author of Hazel: A Life of Lady Lavery. |
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| 09 Jul | 04 Sep | King Rat | Project Arts Centre, Temple Bar | 11.00am - 8.00pm | Free | A dark and menacing exhibition, originally inspired by all things Gothic, King Rat presents a series of artworks by some of visual arts most original international voices. The gallery will transform in to a space filled with a sense of unease and discomfort, the stuff that nightmares are made of. A carpet made of thousands of black pieces of paper will create a striking landscape from which sculptures rise, paintings hover above, tapestries loom and text speak. |
| 01 Jul | 31 Dec | Irish High Cross Exhibition | National Museum of Ireland - Decorative Arts & History | Tue - Sat 10.00am - 5.00pm, Sun 2.00pm - 5.00pm, Closed Mon | Free | Decorative Arts & History, explore the Irish High Cross in a new exhibition, which brings together 6 plaster-of-Paris casts along with a selection of early Medieval treasures. Examine and compare how the High Crosses of early Christian Ireland were decorated with pictures, which taught biblical stories to the largely illiterate population. |
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