Riverbank Arts Centre

18/03/2025

Enya Martin
Is It Just Me?

Friday 11 April, 8pm
Tickets €25
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873649401/events

Martin’s new show, "Is it just me?" is Enya’s search for answers……Is it just my relationship that's like this? Was it just my upbringing that has me this way? Is it just me who experiences this on holiday!? And finally, where she gets most of her inspiration…. Am I the only one with friends like this, on and offline!?

Join Enya Martin as she brings her unforgettable comedy show ‘Is It Just Me’ across seven venues in Ireland, this Spring.

“Enya Is A Comedic Machine" – Joanne McNally

18/03/2025

Anne Gildea
Further Adventures in WOMANING

Saturday 27 September, 8pm
Tickets €23
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873648392/events

From Anne Gildea, the woman who taught you How to Get The Menopause and Enjoy It, comes a brand new show: Further Adventures in WOMANING. And what an hilarious adventure it’s going to be!

Join us as Anne explores the world of the feminine, the mammy, the twerky dancer: From 18-hour girdles and Housewives of The Year, to ripped influencer grannies pumping iron on Insta, from the Sunday drive to the spa break, from Angel Delight to Ozempic and back to the chiffon scarf test, Anne weaves a pant-wetting path through a changing half century of womany stuff -

And that’s just the tip of the Anneburg!

18/03/2025

The Wild Robot

Saturday 22 March, 2pm
Tickets €4
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650710/events

From DreamWorks Animation comes a new adaptation of a literary sensation, Peter Brown’s beloved, award-winning, #1 New York Times bestseller, The Wild Robot.
The epic adventure follows the journey of a robot—ROZZUM unit 7134, “Roz” for short — that is shipwrecked on an uninhabited island and must learn to adapt to the harsh surroundings, gradually building relationships with the animals on the island and becoming the adoptive parent of an orphaned gosling.

Directed by Chris Sanders | 101 mins | Cert PG | English language

This screening is presented in association with access > CINEMA and Europa Cinemas

18/03/2025

Big Guerilla Productions Present
Indigestion by Seamus O'Rourke

Friday 18 April, 8pm
Tickets €18/€16
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651289/events

This play has been described as sensitive, hilarious, intelligent, absolutely compelling and refreshingly forthright. A man, whose name we never hear, tells us his story of a life, always slightly out of his control...

The madness of a simple rural man... a man shipped off to London at the age of 17…who goes through bouts of depression, obesity and anger issues… finds and loses love, comes back to Ireland to more misfortune and mayhem and yet there is HOPE. This is a story full of hope, where laughter and tears join hands and race us through fifty years of a life, not much different to our own. This is Seamus O’Rourke doing what he does best, storytelling.

Written and performed by Seamus O'Rourke.

18/03/2025

Ta Tum Tum! x Ceol Connected

Sunday 6 April, 2pm
Tickets €5
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651613/events

Ta Tum Tum! and Ceol Connected are teaming up for a unique collaboration at the Kildare Jazz Festival, blending the vibrant rhythms of Brazilian culture with the rich traditions of Irish music. Ta Tum Tum!, known for its interactive performances exploring Brazilian folklore and music, will join forces with Ceol Connected, a group renowned for creating engaging performances based on Irish traditional music. Together, they will create a dynamic, cross-cultural experience for children and families, combining live music, storytelling, and interactive elements that celebrate the beauty of both Brazilian and Irish musical traditions. Get ready for a fun, immersive celebration of global rhythms!

Not included in Day/Weekend Ticket

18/03/2025

BrickFlicks Stop Motion Animation Easter Camp

Tuesday 22-Friday25 April, 10am-2pm
Tickets €110
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651574/events

In this special BrickFlicks Stop Motion Animation Camp, learn all the basics of how to animate in stop motion using your favourite LEGO character.

Shoot spells, fight superheroes, blast rockets or fall through portals, use your imagination to make your very own movies.

With plenty of hands-on learning and simple demonstrations, Createschool will take you on a journey from having a cool idea to making it into an awesome movie. You will learn the different elements of stop motion animation as well as how to create a set, storyboard and plan for your movie, which you will then film and edit.

Suitable for ages 9-12 years.

17/03/2025

David O'Doherty
Tiny Piano Man

Saturday 22 March, 8pm
Tickets €23
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873649981/events

The dishevelled prince of €10 eBay keyboards tries to make you feel alive with a new pageant of laughter, song and occasionally getting up from a chair. It’s gonna be a big one.

Star of 8 Out of 10 Cats Does Countdown (Channel 4), Live At The Apollo (BBC) and Along For the Ride with David O’Doherty (Channel 4).

17/03/2025

𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐍𝐢𝐚𝐦𝐡 𝐊𝐚𝐯𝐚𝐧𝐚𝐠𝐡
𝐄𝐚𝐠𝐥𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐅𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐭𝐰𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐌𝐚𝐜
‘𝟓𝟎 𝐘𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐬’

Saturday 3 May, 8pm
Tickets €27
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651504/events

It’s hard to believe that it is 50 years since the world first heard two of the greatest rock albums of all time: One of These Nights by the Eagles and the eponymous Fleetwood Mac which marked the debut of Stevie Nicks and Lindsay Buckingham.

For 2025, The Illegals are putting a new show on the road to celebrate these two ground-shaking music events.

Led by Niamh Kavanagh, she of the mesmerizing voice and mischievous spirit, The Illegals will take you on an unforgettable journey with an evening of soulful harmonies, exciting riffs, blistering guitars and memorable songs.

The best of two legendary bands in one night? It’s almost too good to be true!

Songs like, One Of These Nights, Rhiannon, Lyin’ Eyes, Say That You Love Me, Take It To The Limit, Landslide – and many others: all in celebration of two of the greatest rock bands of all time.

If you missed out last year, book your ticket early through the box office for the 2025 gig. You won’t be disappointed.

Aside from the headline albums the show consists of many other Eagles and Fleetwood Mac hits, as well as some of the solo work from individual members and other ‘connected’ artists.

The Illegals are a band of experienced musicians performing mostly in theatres and rock venues throughout the country, putting on a formidable show and giving thousands of fans an experience they won’t forget.

17/03/2025

Happy St. Patricks Day!

17/03/2025

The Boy and the Heron

Saturday 19 April, 2pm
Tickets €4
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651039/events

Japan, 1943. Following the death of his mother, 12-year-old Mahito moves to the countryside to live with his father and new stepmother in a sprawling estate. There, Mahito draws the attention of a mysterious and mischievous grey heron. The bird lures Mahito to a magical alternate realm with the promise that Mahito’s mother is still alive there. The young boy sets off on an adventure through a dazzling but dangerous world.

Studio Ghibli’s latest animated wonder marks the long-awaited return of legendary Hayao Miyazaki. Here, the master director mixes a thoughtful, emotionally complex coming-of-age story with beautiful, otherworldly fantasy. It has welcome echoes of classics like Spirited Away, while still overflowing with wondrous images and ideas all its own.

OSCAR WINNER: Best Animated Feature Film at the 96th Academy Awards.

Directed by Hayao Miyazaki | 124 mins | Cert 12A | English

Presented in association with Access Cinema and Europa Cinemas.

16/03/2025

Ceol Ársa Cláirsí

Thursday 1 May, 8pm
Tickets €20/€18
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873651394/events

Irish Harp Music of the 17th & 18th centuries

Cormac Breatnach – Susato Whistles; Steve Cooney – Guitars; Aisling Ennis – Irish Harp; Malachy Robinson - Viola da Gamba; Eamon Sweeney- Early Guitars//Bandora/Lute.

Experience the haunting music of the Harpers - arranged from the original Irish & Scottish sources.

This concert features some of Ireland’s leading musicians in Irish and Early Music together recreating music from the Irish Renaissance and Baroque eras.

Performed on historical and contemporary instruments and presented with accompanying evocative visual imagery from artists Helen Barry and Cormac O’Connor.

“…a glorious celebration of our national heritage by a group of outstanding musicians."

16/03/2025

Chicken

Thursday 27 March, 8pm
Tickets €20/€18
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650430/events

Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. Across one fateful night, the feathered Oscar winner shares his star-studded story with an intimate audience - from getting his big break, to his first bird on bird s*xual experience, to navigating life in the celebrity spotlight. But along the way Don will be confronted with some harsh truths about himself, chicken kind and humankind.

"This show where a woman who plays a chicken who thinks he's an Irishman
is unlike anything you've ever seen." Playbill.

Winner of Best Performer Dublin Fringe 2024, Lustrum Award Edinburgh Fringe 2023, and Filipa Braganca Award Edinburgh Fringe 2023.

Presented by Fringe First winning Irish company Sunday’s Child.

Age restriction: strictly 14+ years
Duration: 1 hour

16/03/2025

Neil Ó Lochlainn’s Immram

Thursday 3 April, 8pm
Tickets €18/€15
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650664/events

Eithne Ní Chatháin- voice
Lucia Mac Partlin - fiddle
Eilís Lavelle - harp
Neil Ó Lochlainn - double bass, flute, music
Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill - text

Immram is a suite of poems by Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill first published in her collection Feis (1991). In 2019 Neil Ó Lochlainn was commissioned by Paddy Bushe and the Amergin Solstice Poetry Gathering to set the poems to music and the resulting suite of music was premiered at the festival in Waterville in 2021.

The music combines influences from Irish traditional music and the sean-nós singing tradition, jazz/improvised music and contemporary classical music to create an innovative post-genre style of contemporary Irish chamber music. The musicians are some of the most highly regarded young musicians in Ireland today.

‘Immram’ roughly translates as ‘Voyage’ and is a type of story found commonly in mythological Irish writing describing a protagonist’s journey by sea to the otherworld and the adventures during their voyage.

“Neil has an instinct and a feel for different strands of music that allows him to create uncompromised musical worlds that speak with real depth and authenticity” Martin Hayes

15/03/2025

It’s Wine O’Clock with Norma Sheahan

Saturday 18 October, 8pm
Tickets €28/€25
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650880/events
..or whatever drink tickles your t**s til Friday, be it wh*res on Coors, troubles on bubbles, frisky on whiskey, or zero craic on zero alcohol.

Naughty Norma is newly divorced, h***y as hell, and believes 50 is the new 30.

As she ploughs through her F*ckit List she says F*ck Yeah to her midlife climax. Her three teens tell her to "get a life and get a fella”, as they take over her ‘Glow-up’ from a badger to a M.I.L.F.

The braver bolder Norma has dived off the cliff and hopes to grow wings on the way down. She invites you on her journey as she gives a blow by blow account of her Tinder Sexcapades.

Norma unleashed promises to manifest a Man-fest for everyone in the audience as she fizzes up your s*x life with man, woman or a DIY gadget.

Life is a costume party so pull on your sparkly Spanx, gather the glitzy gals and pop your cork.

This event is strictly over 18's.

15/03/2025

TONIGHT

Shane Daniel Byrne
Trouble Denim

Saturday 15 March, 8pm
Tickets €24
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873649921/events

This Irish fella is back after BURSTING onto the Irish scene in 2024. Shane Daniel Byrne is on fire; fresh from sell-out touring in Ireland, UK and Australia.

Pop in and join him for his spicy new show about Jeans, Jackets and Jesus Christ. Expect honey-sweet and coffee-bitter from this award winning comedian.

“Shane Daniel Byrne is very, very funny.”- Broadway World.

“My favourite new Irish comedian for many years.”
David O’ Doherty
“Shane Daniel Byrne is my favourite”
Irish Examiner
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Broadway World
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐“Superb as always”
GCN Magazine

15/03/2025

TODAY

Kyle Riley Little Folk - On The Road

Saturday 15 March, 12pm
Tickets €10/€36
Book: https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650125/events

Kyle’s back with his wildly popular family concert for young children!

Little Folk- On the Road is perfectly suited for 2-7yr olds and their adults. Featuring his award-winning children’s music, catchy kids tunes and proper sing-a-long songs, it’s super fun for the whole family.
It’s a foot stomping, hand clapping, and jumping good time!
The fun doesn’t stop when the show ends, each child gets a little musical goody bag so they can join in during the show and then take some of the experience home.
Kyle’s been writing and performing children’s music for over 10 years. He’s toured Ireland and abroad bringing his entertaining and engaging show to thousands of families.
So bring your rock toddlers, your little boppers, and cool kids to Kyle’s one of a kind family concert.

14/03/2025

Tickets>>>https://riverbank.ticketsolve.com/shows/873650728/events

See you at Riverbank Arts Centre tonight!

Trevor Knight Honor Heffernan