Award winning Comedian, Conal Gallen is bringing his brand new Comedy Play, “Off Your Trolley”, to theatres across Ireland this Autumn. Father and son team, Conal and Rory Gallen have written their 4th Comedy Play, and it is, without doubt, their funniest comedy play ever!

“Off Your Trolley” is a rip-roaring, laugh a minute tale of life in a hospital ward! It’s packed with craic, confusion and constant laughter!” Where the story leads? Nobody knows! Not even the other actors some nights, as in true Conal Gallen style he likes to throw in some new lines just to keep them on their toes!

So why not Join Bridie, Willie, Dick, Betty and the infamous Father “Big Mad Micky” O’Reilly as they show us hospital life, as it has never been seen before. They’ll have you “in stitches” from start to finish!

You’d have to be completely “offyourtrolley” to miss this hilarious brand new comedy play from the cream of Irish comedy! It certainly proves that “Laughter is still the best medicine”!

Starring: Conal Gallen, Paddy McMenamin, Jack Quinn

Age Recommendation 16+

Tickets €26 (including €1 booking admin fee)

Oh What A Night: A Celebration of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons

Tickets €25

Zac Global Promotions, bring Oh What A Night: A Celebration of Frankie Valli and The Four Seasons to Iontas Theatre
 
Following a sold-out run at the Tivoli Theatre in Dublin, this fast-paced, energetic production paying tribute to the legendary music of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons returns for a nationwide tour. Putting their charismatic stamp on timeless classics such as ‘Big Girls Don’t Cry’, ‘Walk Like A Man’, ‘Sherry’, and ‘Oh What A Night’ the boys take you on a nostalgic trip down memory lane and remind you exactly why The Four Seasons sold over 100 million records and earned themselves a place in the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
  
With slick choreography, charm, charisma, brilliant audience participation, and amazing live vocals, it’s clear to see why Frankie’s Guys are receiving standing ovations up and down the country.

Formerly known as Top Class Stage School, Rising Stars under the direction of Liebe Kelly and Patrice Doherty along with their choreographer Johnny Duffy are excited to bring New Beginnings to Iontas Theatre.  It will showcase the talents of 4-18 year olds in a entertaining variety production full energetic dance, song, drama and music.

TICKETS FOR THURSDAY 29th NOV ON SALE MONDAY MORNING FROM 9AM

FRIDAY & SATURDAY SOLD OUT.

Tickets: €15, 7.30pm start (Doors 7.10pm) 

Formerly known as Top Class Stage School, Rising Stars under the direction of Liebe Kelly and Patrice Doherty along with their choreographer Johnny Duffy are excited to bring New Beginnings to Iontas Theatre.  It will showcase the talents of 4-18 year olds in a entertaining variety production full energetic dance, song, drama and music.

TICKETS FOR THURSDAY 29th NOV ON SALE MONDAY MORNING FROM 9AM

FRIDAY & SATURDAY SOLD OUT.

Tickets: €15, 7.30pm start (Doors 7.10pm) 

Formerly known as Top Class Stage School, Rising Stars under the direction of Liebe Kelly and Patrice Doherty along with their choreographer Johnny Duffy are excited to bring New Beginnings to Iontas Theatre.  It will showcase the talents of 4-18 year olds in a entertaining variety production full energetic dance, song, drama and music.

TICKETS FOR THURSDAY 29th NOV ON SALE MONDAY MORNING FROM 9AM

FRIDAY & SATURDAY SOLD OUT.

Tickets: €15, 7.30pm start (Doors 7.10pm) 

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR THE XMAS SEASON!

THE SHOW THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT. IT'S WINE O'CLOCK!

Grab your hat and come along to the craziest wedding of the year! The show centres around Vera, the farmer’s wife who is so excited as her only son Seamus is getting married! Everyone is cordially invited to watch the shenanigans which unfold on this special day. With the Winebulance providing the drink, the band 'Keep er Lit' keeping everyone on the dance floor. Not to mention the other special guests, the farmers -Pat and Eamon the Bridesmaids, the Yummy Mummies, the Grannies, and of course Nuala and Noleen always looking for love. This production has proved to be a rip roaring, laugh out loud, feel good tonic.  Tick tock, It's Wine O'Clock!

Adm €20

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND FOR THE XMAS SEASON!

THE SHOW THAT EVERYONE HAS BEEN TALKING ABOUT. IT'S WINE O'CLOCK!

Grab your hat and come along to the craziest wedding of the year! The show centres around Vera, the farmer’s wife who is so excited as her only son Seamus is getting married! Everyone is cordially invited to watch the shenanigans which unfold on this special day. With the Winebulance providing the drink, the band 'Keep er Lit' keeping everyone on the dance floor. Not to mention the other special guests, the farmers -Pat and Eamon the Bridesmaids, the Yummy Mummies, the Grannies, and of course Nuala and Noleen always looking for love. This production has proved to be a rip roaring, laugh out loud, feel good tonic.  Tick tock, It's Wine O'Clock!

Adm €20

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND AFTER A SELL OUT PERFORMANCE IN JUNE

Spend a relaxing evening with author and psychologist Shane Martin as he engages you through his stories, humour and some of his poems. The focus will be on what science has shown to make people happier, what gives them more meaning and purpose in life, and what measures they can take to lead to overall greater health. 
It will be an uplifting night as he shares some simple, practical, and most importantly, evidence-based strategies linked to a better quality of life based on his book ‘Your Precious Life - How to Live it Well' 

Mon 10th Dec, 8pm
Adm €20

Listen.... you could hear a pin drop. Such was the reaction when Ryan Tubridy invited Eimear to sing 'O Holy Night' on his radio show in the run up to Christmas. Eimear's version of this ever-popular carol has since become synonymous with the season.

In this intimate a spiritual night, Eimear will bring her own special rendition of Christmas songs and carols to Iontas for a memorable musical experience where her ethereal voice will blend beautifully with String Quartet & Guitar. Allow yourself to sit back and let the hustle and bustle fade away. The Christmas season begins right here, so let your spirit be moved!

A beautiful woman with a cherub’s voice that floats in an ethereal cloud of it’s own making - The Sunday Independent

Tickets: €22 / 20

HEY!
NATIONAL TOUR 2019

Pat Shortt brings his brand new live comedy stage show called ‘Hey!’ to The Íontas Theatre. Following the sell-out successes of ‘The Hall’, ‘Selfie’ and ‘How’s Tings?’ and fresh from starring roles in the hit play ‘A Skull In Connemara’ and the film ‘The Belly of The Whale’, Ireland’s best loved comedian takes to the road with his latest quirky look at Irish life. Featuring all brand new material and sketches, this new show is a rogue’s gallery of odd ball characters, bizarre situations and even a song or two!  "Hey!" delivers a peculiar take on modern life that only the unique imagination of Pat Shortt could conjure up. A show not to be missed. "Hey!" You have been warned!

ADM €29

Friday 4th January, 8pm

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

This coming January, Íontas Theatre teams up with Born2Perform Stage School to bring you timeless classic ‘Jack & The Beanstalk’ OH YES IT IS!

We follow the lovable Jack through a giant adventure of beanstalks and enormously funny characters. Be sure to make a date with our Jack and pals this January for some Fee-Fi-Fo-FUN and a whole lot of happily ever after.

These shows will run over 6 days, so don’t delay buy your tickets today!

Gen Admission: €16 / 13 (under 18’s & over 65’s)
Schools: €8, Teachers Free (ltd to 1 teacher per 10 children)

Please contact Íontas Arts office on 042 9753401 for school and group bookings.

Derek Ryan continues to maintain his position at the top table of Irish Country Music’s elite with his brand of original material and country classics. His album, ‘The Fire’ spawned the hits ‘Heaven Tonight’, ‘Homeland’ and “Down On Your Uppers’ which will be featured along with his many classics ‘Hold On To Your Hat’, ‘God’s Plan’ and ‘Life Is A River’ during this concert tour.

The Carlow man, who is a many times recipient of awards for his performances and song writing, Including the Sunday World accolade for ‘Album of the Year’ and ‘Songwriter of the Year’ in 2018.

The highlight of the show is considered the moment the band and performance is stripped back, when Derek is left alone with his guitar on stage. This, to Derek, is a chance for his audience to get to know him better, and know more about the music.

Sunday 13th Jan, 8pm

Tickets €31

And a Red Flag Flying……..

Black Pig’s Dyke Theatre Company present a new play by Aidan McQuillan and Brian Kenny which tells the story of the 1919 Monaghan Asylum Workers Strike when the Attendants staged an ‘Occupation’ of the Asylum. The Attendants along with Union Organiser a young Peader O’Donnell took over the running of the Asylum for a week in January 1919 in order to obtain their demands of better pay, working conditions and equal pay for the female Attendants.

They set up a ‘Soviet’ and hoisted a Red Flag over the Asylum……..

A great story that makes great Theatre a new play set in Monaghan Town.

Not to be missed

Thurs 17th - Sat 19th January
Adm €15 / 13

And a Red Flag Flying……..

Black Pig’s Dyke Theatre Company present a new play by Aidan McQuillan and Brian Kenny which tells the story of the 1919 Monaghan Asylum Workers Strike when the Attendants staged an ‘Occupation’ of the Asylum. The Attendants along with Union Organiser a young Peader O’Donnell took over the running of the Asylum for a week in January 1919 in order to obtain their demands of better pay, working conditions and equal pay for the female Attendants.

They set up a ‘Soviet’ and hoisted a Red Flag over the Asylum……..

A great story that makes great Theatre a new play set in Monaghan Town.

Not to be missed

Thurs 17th - Sat 19th January
Adm €15 / 13

And a Red Flag Flying……..

Black Pig’s Dyke Theatre Company present a new play by Aidan McQuillan and Brian Kenny which tells the story of the 1919 Monaghan Asylum Workers Strike when the Attendants staged an ‘Occupation’ of the Asylum. The Attendants along with Union Organiser a young Peader O’Donnell took over the running of the Asylum for a week in January 1919 in order to obtain their demands of better pay, working conditions and equal pay for the female Attendants.

They set up a ‘Soviet’ and hoisted a Red Flag over the Asylum……..

A great story that makes great Theatre a new play set in Monaghan Town.

Not to be missed

Thurs 17th - Sat 19th January
Adm €15 / 13

WITH SPECIAL GUESTS

And thank you...

Written and performed by Seamus O’Rourke & Directed by Charles McGuinness

Seamus O’Rourke joins forces with director Charles McGuinness – The team who brought us ‘Padraig Potts’ Guide to Walking’ ...

And thank you... is a play about an ordinary man living in rural Ireland who gets saved... Saved from a life of pub talk and prophesising... King John O’Sullivan used to be able to drink fifteen pints without having to piddle, now, it’s every nine... Going to the Gents so often can wear a man out.

The story is told by the Reverend Thaddaeus Clancy and O’Sullivan’s two sons, Larry and Martin. The sons run the family shop while Daddy, the king of McKenna’s bar makes up the rules.

It’s a story of hard work and success and dangling... There’s bad driving and ice hockey and there’s falling down. When the ‘Divel’ starts to gnaw, the kingdom will fall...

And thank you...

THE MATCHMAKER based on the novella “Letters of a County Matchmaker” by JOHN B. KEANE one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers, will play at Íontas Theatre, Castleblayney. 

The production stars television favorite Mary McEvoy known for her roles as Biddie in the long running RTE series GLENROE.  Irish Actor and comedian JON KENNY who was part of the Irish comic duo d’Unbelievables with Pat Shortt joins Mary to complete the cast. Kenny is also best known outside Ireland for appearing in the Channel 4 sitcom Father Ted.   Together they play a myriad of characters in this hilarious and earthy dramatic comedy.

The play follows the efforts of Dicky Mick Dicky O Connor to make matches for the lonely and lovelorn.  Keane, an avid observer of people and the cultures that bind and create their view of the world uses “The Matchmaker” as an exploration of rural loneliness. Aware that generations of people became masters of their own destinies late in life, and only then began to look for companionship and love, once their duties as minder of aging parents were concluded or they had finally inherited, or were the left over brother or sister. 

Using his inimitable way with words and his one sense of “devilment” and wit, Keane delves into the longings, hungers, fears and foibles of this collection of lonely county people and creates a marvelously colorful world, taking us back to a simpler time, when phones were few and far between and the only web was one left behind by spiders.

The show is directed by Michael Scott

Adm €21 / 19

Irish comedy fans can enjoy a double dose of laughs over the coming months with top Irish stand-ups Bernard O’Shea and Karl Spain in their show, Fat Chancers.
Commenting on the tour, Karl Spain said "Don’t expect massive weight loss or body transformations or Bernard being funny”.

CONTROLLED SUBSTANCE TOUR

TICKETS ON SALE FRIDAY 14th SEPT FROM 10am

Blindboy's increased notability away from his band Rubberbandits, has allowed for him to explore wider avenues and create perhaps outrageously mind-altering brainchildren which can only be described as courageous, yet bonkers.

With a number one selling book under his belt and a podcast that has reached interest not only in Ireland but internationally, the satirist could possibly single-handedly change people's mind set on mental health and the deafening stigma it surrounds.

Outspoken, informed and empathetic, Blindboy engages his audience with an unusual touch of realism. There is a very authentic feeling of "freedom" he exhumes which allows his listeners and participants to openly speak their mind without judgement and no topic off limits - certainly an air of belonging encircling the space you find yourself in when listening or in company of Blindboy.

His latest innovative creation, The Blindboy podcast espouses mental health issues but reaches further into an eclectic spectrum of current topics from gun laws to feminism, racism or a bit of history. Blindboy has it covered.

His uncanny ability to articulate what nearly everyone is thinking is unparalleled and something that is sorely needed in Irish society. - The Daily Edge

8pm (Doors 7.30pm)
Adm: €26 (includes €1 Booking Admin fee)

Join Bernie Jones on her crazy “Dirty Dancing” themed hen party and get ready to meet her madcap family and friends while you have “The Time Of Your Life!”

 

Bernie is a single mother to her stroppy teenage daughter and from her living room runs an ironing service called “Let’s Get Steaming.”

 

When Bernie’s long-suffering driving instructor pops the question she reluctantly agrees and sets the date!

 

Will she make it down the aisle or will she discover her real-life Johnny Castle?

 

This high energy, hilariously funny comedy show features 90’s disco classics and some iconic songs from Dirty Dancing!

 

If you’re crazy for Swayze and fancy a bit of salsa in your Karaoke, then join Bernie Jones for a wild night of fun and laughter and let’s get this party started!

Join Bernie Jones on her crazy “Dirty Dancing” themed hen party and get ready to meet her madcap family and friends while you have “The Time Of Your Life!”

 

Bernie is a single mother to her stroppy teenage daughter and from her living room runs an ironing service called “Let’s Get Steaming.”

 

When Bernie’s long-suffering driving instructor pops the question she reluctantly agrees and sets the date!

 

Will she make it down the aisle or will she discover her real-life Johnny Castle?

 

This high energy, hilariously funny comedy show features 90’s disco classics and some iconic songs from Dirty Dancing!

 

If you’re crazy for Swayze and fancy a bit of salsa in your Karaoke, then join Bernie Jones for a wild night of fun and laughter and let’s get this party started!