Dublin's only year-round venue for lunchtime drama, this café theatre is an elegant and intimate space that has a reputation for staging exciting, innovative productions of...

The musical quality here can vary, but even so, this is a great pub: you'd do well to pop in for a drink anyway. Local blues acts play upstairs early in the week; there's...

The Button Factory is the rebranded and refurbished version of what was once the Temple Bar Music Centre, a home to hard rock bands where sound quality and atmosphere mattered...

The Gaiety is a spacious, old-time concert hall whose main trade is opera and theatre, but it has given space to rock performers like the Divine Comedy and Lambchop. A few...

The Gaiety is a lovely Victorian chocolate box-style theatre that hosts the Christmas pantos and the spring opera season. It also caters for classic Irish plays and West End...

A new, small-scale rock venue in the city centre, this basement bar (below the Mezz Bar) has a small stage, which puts the musicians and audience pretty much face to face. Acts...

The International is a quaint old pub with a small but charming venue upstairs. In recent years, it has become more of a comedy space, with four nights of stand-up each week;...

One of the city's oldest jazz and blues venues, Smyth's does good music every night bar Wednesdays. There's an acoustic open-jam session on the first Tuesday of every month,...

Downstairs, this is just a regular, unassuming old-fashioned Dublin boozer - and very nice with it. But it's also a famous jazz bar - head upstairs to hear some of the city's...

This sprawling pub and restaurant hosts live trad music and set dancing every night. It can be good fun with the right crowd but tends to attract large coach tours looking for...

Named after the man parodied as Buck Mulligan in Ulysses, this place got its bar counter from the green room in the once-famous Theatre Royal. As well as that, there's an...

The Olympia is one of Dublin's old music halls. It's a fabulous place, with red velvet seats and theatre boxes on either side of the stage; the design is perfect for music and...

This old-style variety theatre - it was Dublin's first music hall - retains its physical characteristics (many of them authentically worn) but has largely parted company with...

Founded in 1986, this company is the national touring company of Ireland. In addition to producing four tours a year, it also runs the Opera Theatre Studio, a training facility...