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LOCAL ARTS/YOUTH THEATRE: CONNECTIONS

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Connections Kildare Festival is taking place 14th and 15th April in Riverbank Arts Centre. The festival will be hosted by Crooked House Theatre Company and will be attended by Ardclough Youth Theatre, Playacting Youth Theatre and Straffan Drama Club. During the festival, there will be three plays which will be performed in Riverbank Arts Centre.

€5 – €10

LOCAL ARTS: The Life and Songs of John McCormack

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Kildare tenor Philip Scott is delighted to bring his show "The Life and Songs of John McCormack" to  Riverbank Arts Centre. Philip brings a programme of John McCormack songs such as I Hear You Calling Me, Macushla, The Kerry Dance and many more. The programme will also be sprinkled with some well known Italian arias.

€18 – €20

LOCAL ARTS: Stormy Surprise by Dave Tiernan

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Paul thought he’d planned the best surprise birthday party for his wife June when he hired an old remote cottage in the woods, but the shabby shack isn’t up to June’s standard, and things get even worse as the surprise guests that Paul has invited are people that June hates. A stormy night adds to

€10 – €12

LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group presents Canaries by Bernard Farrell

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Bernard Farrell's Canaries was first performed on stage at the Abbey Theatre in October 1980.  Since then it’s been a great hit with many audiences. Set in the Canary Islands we meet a collection of colourful characters. From a couple who are not shy about sharing their ‘holiday’ with  anyone willing, to a couple of singletons who

€12 – €15

BOOK LAUNCH: I am Edel by Susan Connolly & Cormac P. Walsh

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Join us for the launch of   I Am Edel by Susan Connolly & Cormac P. Walsh, foreword by Emilie Pine. Featuring live performances of four scenes from the play, guest speakers, Q & A and book signing. This stage play is the compelling true story of Susan Connolly’s 11 years as a child in

FREE, booking advised

LOCAL ARTS: GYT PRESENTS: Double Bill: It Only Ever Happens in the Movies/Grimms Fairy Tales

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

After two years of online and outdoor work Griese Youth Theatre are excited to be back on Riverbanks stage. Engaging with five separate scripts that explore the challenges and hopes of youth the performances will take place over three nights. Double Bill on June 23rd @7pm It Only Ever Happens in the Movies - Devised

€10 – €12

LOCAL ARTS: GYT PRESENTS: Double Bill -Little Big Foot / Beetroot

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

After two years of online and outdoor work Griese Youth Theatre are excited to be back on Riverbanks stage. Engaging with five separate scripts that explore the challenges and hopes of youth the performances will take place over three nights. Double Bill on June 24th @7pm (Pre-Youth Theatre group 11/12 year olds) Little Big Foot by

€10 – €12

LOCAL ARTS: GYT PRESENTS DOUBLE BILL: It Only Ever Happens in the Movies & Remote by Stef Smith

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

After two years of online and outdoor work Griese Youth Theatre are excited to be back on Riverbanks stage. Engaging with five separate scripts that explore the challenges and hopes of youth the performances will take place over three nights. June 25th @ 7pm It Only Ever Happens in the Movies - Devised by Mikel

€10 – €12

LOCAL ARTS: Route 66 Big Band – Live in Concert

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Route 66 is a 16 piece Big Band with big sound! Route 66 make a very welcome return to Riverbank,  bringing their unique mix of music which has proved a huge success in theatres all over Ireland. Fronted by a male and female singer and with a mix of brass, saxes and rhythm, Route 66

€18 – €20

LOCAL ARTS: Griese Youth Theatre Presents – Grimm Fairy Tales by John Morton

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm were German authors who made it their mission to collect and publish the folklore of their native land, Germany. We have all heard some version of the stories they collected, be it Snow White or Cinderella, but the stories the brothers originally recorded are very different to the ones we are

€10 – €12
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LOCAL ARTS: The Odd Theatre Company Presents – First Date

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company presents First Date, a hilarious new Broadway musical that follows two young New Yorkers on a high-stakes blind date. When Aaron, a buttoned-up banker, and Casey, an artist a bit too wild for Wall Street, first meet, sparks don’t exactly fly. However, when other restaurant-goers transform into their inner critics, best

€20
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LOCAL ARTS: The Odd Theatre Company Presents – First Date

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company presents First Date, a hilarious new Broadway musical that follows two young New Yorkers on a high-stakes blind date. When Aaron, a buttoned-up banker, and Casey, an artist a bit too wild for Wall Street, first meet, sparks don’t exactly fly. However, when other restaurant-goers transform into their inner critics, best

€20
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LOCAL ARTS: The Odd Theatre Company Presents – First Date

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

The Odd Theatre Company presents First Date, a hilarious new Broadway musical that follows two young New Yorkers on a high-stakes blind date. When Aaron, a buttoned-up banker, and Casey, an artist a bit too wild for Wall Street, first meet, sparks don’t exactly fly. However, when other restaurant-goers transform into their inner critics, best

€20
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents – Calendar Girls by Tim Firth

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

With heartache can come good. When Annie loses her husband to leukemia, she and her best friend, Chris, decide to raise money for the hospital by making a calendar… in the nude. The biggest challenge? Convincing their friends to drop everything for a good cause. Based on a true story of 11 Women’s Institute members, Calendar

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents – Calendar Girls by Tim Firth

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

With heartache can come good. When Annie loses her husband to leukemia, she and her best friend, Chris, decide to raise money for the hospital by making a calendar… in the nude. The biggest challenge? Convincing their friends to drop everything for a good cause. Based on a true story of 11 Women’s Institute members, Calendar

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents – Calendar Girls by Tim Firth

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

With heartache can come good. When Annie loses her husband to leukemia, she and her best friend, Chris, decide to raise money for the hospital by making a calendar… in the nude. The biggest challenge? Convincing their friends to drop everything for a good cause. Based on a true story of 11 Women’s Institute members, Calendar

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents – Calendar Girls by Tim Firth

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

With heartache can come good. When Annie loses her husband to leukemia, she and her best friend, Chris, decide to raise money for the hospital by making a calendar… in the nude. The biggest challenge? Convincing their friends to drop everything for a good cause. Based on a true story of 11 Women’s Institute members, Calendar

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Riff Raff Drama Group Presents – The Work of Art

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Riff Raff are back with The Work of Art by Dave Tiernan! Set in 1960 rural Ireland, Biddy Smith’s husband Mick is away in the Congo and Biddy is left to keep her home and family in order. But with her son Tommy wheeling and dealing with Biddy’s brother-in-law they get on the wrong side of

€10 – €12
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LOCAL ARTS: Riff Raff Drama Group Presents – The Work of Art

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Riff Raff are back with The Work of Art by Dave Tiernan! Set in 1960 rural Ireland, Biddy Smith’s husband Mick is away in the Congo and Biddy is left to keep her home and family in order. But with her son Tommy wheeling and dealing with Biddy’s brother-in-law they get on the wrong side of

€10 – €12
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LOCAL ARTS: Riff Raff Drama Group Presents – The Work of Art

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Riff Raff are back with The Work of Art by Dave Tiernan! Set in 1960 rural Ireland, Biddy Smith’s husband Mick is away in the Congo and Biddy is left to keep her home and family in order. But with her son Tommy wheeling and dealing with Biddy’s brother-in-law they get on the wrong side of

€10 – €12

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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents – Tale As Old As Time

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Musical Theatre presents Tale As Old As Time - a concert celebrating magical music from childhood classics and family favourites.  You are invited to take a trip down memory lane, as some of the most iconic songs from Disney and beyond are brought to life by our award-winning ensemble of local performers.   Both the

€15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents – Tale As Old As Time

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Musical Theatre presents Tale As Old As Time - a concert celebrating magical music from childhood classics and family favourites.  You are invited to take a trip down memory lane, as some of the most iconic songs from Disney and beyond are brought to life by our award-winning ensemble of local performers.   Both the

€15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Musical Theatre Presents – Tale As Old As Time

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Musical Theatre presents Tale As Old As Time - a concert celebrating magical music from childhood classics and family favourites.  You are invited to take a trip down memory lane, as some of the most iconic songs from Disney and beyond are brought to life by our award-winning ensemble of local performers.   Both the

€15

MUSIC: Highly Strung

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Welcome to Highly Strung’s Mid-Winter Musical Gathering. The ladies are delighted to return to Riverbank for their annual festive performance. The four friends’ diverse musical backgrounds create a mellow blend which hallmarks the spirit of Christmas for their audiences. Highly Strung casts a little star light on the darkest time of the year with a

€15

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LOCAL ARTS: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ibsen's classic play was greeted with shock in 1879, with both its style and subject matter being seen as subversive. It premiered in Copenhagen at the dawn of the suffragette movement and continues to be one of the world's most performed plays. It ushered modern drama onto centre stage, banishing aristocratic comedy and melodrama to

€6 – €10
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LOCAL ARTS: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ibsen's classic play was greeted with shock in 1879, with both its style and subject matter being seen as subversive. It premiered in Copenhagen at the dawn of the suffragette movement and continues to be one of the world's most performed plays. It ushered modern drama onto centre stage, banishing aristocratic comedy and melodrama to

€6 – €10
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LOCAL ARTS: MAC Productions Present – Nunsense

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Nunsense is the hilarious musical comedy about a convent of Nuns staging a fundraiser to help bury the last four nuns of their order who died in an unfortunate convent cooking accident (and who are temporarily being stored in the freezer!). The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put

€20
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LOCAL ARTS: MAC Productions Present – Nunsense

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Nunsense is the hilarious musical comedy about a convent of Nuns staging a fundraiser to help bury the last four nuns of their order who died in an unfortunate convent cooking accident (and who are temporarily being stored in the freezer!). The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put

€20
Recurring

LOCAL ARTS: MAC Productions Present – Nunsense

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Nunsense is the hilarious musical comedy about a convent of Nuns staging a fundraiser to help bury the last four nuns of their order who died in an unfortunate convent cooking accident (and who are temporarily being stored in the freezer!). The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put

€20
Recurring

LOCAL ARTS: MAC Productions Present – Nunsense

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Nunsense is the hilarious musical comedy about a convent of Nuns staging a fundraiser to help bury the last four nuns of their order who died in an unfortunate convent cooking accident (and who are temporarily being stored in the freezer!). The sisters decide that the best way to raise the money is to put

€20

LOCAL ARTS: Ballymore Eustace Concert Band

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Ballymore-Eustace Concert Band presents an evening of music with a repertoire featuring movie scores, marches, popular classical music and rock/pop pieces arranged for wind band. Under the direction of Jon Clifford the concert band will play a selection from their recently launched album Flourish and will be joined by award winning soprano Ruby Boland. The

€10
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LOCAL ARTS: Curragh Community College Presents Grease

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

It's 1959 in California, greaser Danny Zuko and Aussie Sandy Olsson are in love. They hang out at the beach during summer but when they go back to school, the two are unaware that they are both students at Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black leather jacket-wearing greasers, while

€10 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Curragh Community College Presents Grease

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

It's 1959 in California, greaser Danny Zuko and Aussie Sandy Olsson are in love. They hang out at the beach during summer but when they go back to school, the two are unaware that they are both students at Rydell High. Danny's the leader of the T-Birds, a group of black leather jacket-wearing greasers, while

€10 – €15

Run of the Mill Presents – An Evening of Song and Samba

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Celebrating their return to live performance, Run of the Mill's Community Group invites you to share in an evening of song and dance - carefully curated and performed by participants following a residency with musician Kasia Eliasz. Expect an eclectic mix of our favourite tunes, live music from the Ta Tum Tum! samba ensemble,  and some of

free, booking essential

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YOUTH THEATRE: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Featuring a cast of young people from Kildare schools who are studying the play. They are joined by young volunteers from abroad, making it a truly multicultural production. Kildare Youth Theatre is a project of Crooked House Theatre Company. Each May we stage a play by Shakespeare, usually the text that is prescribed for current

€6 – €10
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YOUTH THEATRE: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Featuring a cast of young people from Kildare schools who are studying the play. They are joined by young volunteers from abroad, making it a truly multicultural production. Kildare Youth Theatre is a project of Crooked House Theatre Company. Each May we stage a play by Shakespeare, usually the text that is prescribed for current

€6 – €10
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YOUTH THEATRE: Kildare Youth Theatre Presents Hamlet by William Shakespeare

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Featuring a cast of young people from Kildare schools who are studying the play. They are joined by young volunteers from abroad, making it a truly multicultural production. Kildare Youth Theatre is a project of Crooked House Theatre Company. Each May we stage a play by Shakespeare, usually the text that is prescribed for current

€6 – €10

Bealtaine Concert: With a Little Help From My Friends

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Past Times Community Choir and Voices of Spring will combine forces for this celebration of friendship and song to mark Bealtaine Festival 2023. Join the choirs as they take you on a musical journey from the 1800’s right up to the 1960’s, presenting the work of Burt Bacharach, The Beatles, Perry Como and lots more

Free event
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Drama Group are delighted to return to Riverbank Arts Centre to present Oscar Wilde's best loved play this Summer - filled as it is with sparkling comedy, both in words and situation. The language, which is sometimes drily acidic and at other times startlingly apt, combined with absurd and hilarious situations make this play

€12 – €15

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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Drama Group are delighted to return to Riverbank Arts Centre to present Oscar Wilde's best loved play this Summer - filled as it is with sparkling comedy, both in words and situation. The language, which is sometimes drily acidic and at other times startlingly apt, combined with absurd and hilarious situations make this play

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Drama Group are delighted to return to Riverbank Arts Centre to present Oscar Wilde's best loved play this Summer - filled as it is with sparkling comedy, both in words and situation. The language, which is sometimes drily acidic and at other times startlingly apt, combined with absurd and hilarious situations make this play

€12 – €15
Recurring

LOCAL ARTS: Newbridge Drama Group Presents The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Newbridge Drama Group are delighted to return to Riverbank Arts Centre to present Oscar Wilde's best loved play this Summer - filled as it is with sparkling comedy, both in words and situation. The language, which is sometimes drily acidic and at other times startlingly apt, combined with absurd and hilarious situations make this play

€12 – €15

LOCAL ARTS: June Fest Presents – A Parlour Evening with Friends

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

All funds raised on the night will go to Newbridge Day Care Centre & Meals on Wheels. Let our local artists entertain you with an evening of music, drama, poetry & song. Featuring local artists Eimear Dempsey, Nicky Keogh, Aoise Dempsey & Stephen Connelly, Frankie Lane, Pud Barrett, Con Cummins, Conor Mahony & Alan Fitzgerald, Roisín

€10
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LOCAL ARTS: Riff Raff Drama Group Presents – What are the Odds?

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Set in the 1980s, Doreen and Peter have just moved into a rundown suburban apartment and finances are at an all-time low. But when Peter brings home a stranger who suddenly dies in their home, Doreen concocts a scam to pretend it is Peter who has died so that they can claim the insurance money

€12 – €15
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LOCAL ARTS: Riff Raff Drama Group Presents – What are the Odds?

Riverbank Arts Centre Main Street, Newbridge, Ireland

Set in the 1980s, Doreen and Peter have just moved into a rundown suburban apartment and finances are at an all-time low. But when Peter brings home a stranger who suddenly dies in their home, Doreen concocts a scam to pretend it is Peter who has died so that they can claim the insurance money

€12 – €15