Vivie Warren, an independent, optimistic and pragmatic young woman intent on pursuing a career in business, is staying with her mother Kitty after graduating from Cambridge.

In August 1977, the week before their Leaving results, Paul, Tom, Larry and Kevin plan a stage spectacular at the local disco to advertise their group's first gig. But the beautiful Caroline Brady is a distraction, and so are the menacing Glasthule Lads.

Oscar Wilde's scathingly witty comedy of social scandal focuses on the hypocrisy of a society which sneers and mocks women for their sexual behaviours while praising men for theirs.

Ambrose Ashley, a wealthy landowner, is wintering in Italy when he meets a distant relation, the Contessa Sangalletti, and everything is changed.

Hugh Leonard’s hilarious comedy Da explores the relationship of Charlie, a successful playwright, with his adoptive father.

From the pen of one of the greatest living playwrights, comes Nobel Prize laureate Harold Pinter's superb tragicomic gem.

EUROPALIA.EUROPA Barry McGovern in I'LL GO ON

Noël Coward, an astounding polymath, actor, writer, composer, lyricist, painter and wit was defined by his Englishness as much as he defined it and had more than what he called merely a “talent to amuse”.

February 13th sees the opening of the Gate Theatre’s production of Pulitzer Prize winner David Mamet’s American Buffalo, which premiered in Chicago in 1975.

The Gate’s production of Eh Joe by Samuel Beckett starring Michael Gambon and featuring the voice of Penelope Wilton is transferring to London where it opens at the Duke of York’s Theatre on 27th June.

Ralph Fiennes as Frank Hardy in the Gate Theatre production of Brian Friel’s Faith Healer

In 1991, the Gate Theatre held the first Beckett Festival, producing all 19 of Samuel Beckett’s stage plays in a unique tribute with its partners Trinity College - Beckett’s alma mater, and RTÉ.

The Gate Theatre has had a long and rich association with Brian Friel, arguably Ireland’s greatest living playwright, and is delighted to begin 2006 with a production of one of his finest plays Faith Healer.

‘Tis the night before Christmas and all through the house, there’s not a creature unlit, not even a mouse!’

In Dublin a man comes to a counsellor seeking help. He claims to have seen the ghost of his recently deceased wife.

In Pygmalion, the cockney flower girl Eliza Doolittle (Dawn Bradfield) is taken in hand by accent and pronunciation expert Professor Higgins (Stephen Brennan), who attempts to transform her speech and manners in order to pass her off as a lady in genteel society.

Set in New York in the '60s this brilliant, powerful and deeply moving play examines with compassion, humour and rare insight, the relationship of two long-estranged brothers.

It is the summer of 1936 and the five Mundy women are on the very edge of catastrophe.

Charlotte Brontï's Jane Eyre is a story of passion - of anger, defiance and overwhelming desire.

The Gate’s touring production of 'Waiting for Godot' will finish its critically acclaimed seven week run in the United States with a final performance in Los Angeles on the 19th November.

In the world premiere of Brian Friel's Performances, the playwright's words entwine with the music of the composer's final string quartet, Intimate Letters, to create an illuminating, unique and profoundly moving theatrical experience.

"It is exquisitely trivial, a delicate bubble of fancy, and it has its philosophy...we should treat all the trivial things of life seriously and all the serious things of life with sincere and studied triviality" - Oscar Wilde

Declan Conlon gives a compelling performance as Frederick Montgomery and his dark, poignant, witty and disturbing testimony of murder.

There is a place between nightmare and waking...a place, yet no place...of our world, yet not our world...a savage quarter so dark that all but the tiniest glimmer of light has been extinguished. Almost.

Tennessee Williams is largely regarded as America’s most famous playwright having won two Pulitzer Prizes, the first for A Streetcar Named Desire and the second for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.

In this sparkling new version of Molière’s classic comedy, Martin Crimp brings the misanthropic Alceste into the world of Hollywood Stars, London Agents, the Gutter Press and the Savage Critic.

The famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge's transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has delighted audiences for generations.

"It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife."

Gates of Gold is a work of fiction, inspired by the story of the founders of the Gate Theatre.

Four young college students and two apparently ordinary relationships in small town America provide the landscape for Neil LaBute’s the shape of things.

The famous tale of Ebenezer Scrooge’s transformation from embittered skinflint to generous benefactor has delighted audiences for generations.

The Gate Theatre is proud to present the world premieres of plays by three of Ireland’s most prestigious contemporary writers, Brian Friel, Neil Jordan and Conor McPherson.

The Gate Theatre presents John Hurt in Krapp’s Last Tape for 3 weeks only.

Written during the dark War years of 1941, Coward’s classic comedy of high spirits, glorious satire and sophisticated banter is one of his best-loved plays.

A family gathering in north London. Teddy brings his wife, Ruth, home to meet her in-laws. But who will be the eventual winner in a fierce battle for supremacy?

In Conor McPherson’s new play Port Authority we meet Kevin, Dermot and Joe, three generations of Dublin men. Their stories explore the possibilities they’ve had in their lives for happiness and love.

bash is a trio of plays by the playwright and award-winning film director Neil LaBute.

Emile Zola was one of the giants of French nineteenth century literature and, from the publication of Thérèse Raquin, his work was both championed and vilified across Europe for its gritty realism and sexual honesty.