Tucked away in the historic cobbled streets of Temple Bar is Project Arts Centre, Dublin's best kept secret, a venue packed full of surprises.
Choose from theatre, music, dance, visual arts and everything in between. Visit the place that helped to shape and to launch the careers of many Irish artists including Gabriel Byrne, Jean Butler, Neil Jordan, Liam Neeson, Jim and Peter Sheridan, Alan Stanford and U2 and with a packed year round programme there is plenty to fuel your imagination.
With two theatres and a gallery Project Arts Centre offers a huge variety of events at great value and is located close to a host of great restaurants and bars. The gallery presents a series of free exhibitions throughout the year and tickets to performance range from 0-25.
"The city's most interesting venue. You never know what to expect, which makes it all that more fun." Lonely Planet
- Eating the Sun - Liliana Zeic
Free things to doEating the Sun - Liliana Zeic The Polish-born, Warsaw-based artist Liliana Zeic works with craft techniques, video, photography, objects, and text, creating intermedia and performative projects based on artistic research.
- Project Arts Centre Bealtaine Festival 2026
Arts and cultureProject Arts Centre Bealtaine Festival 2026 As we welcome the light after winter, dive into Bealtaine’s rich mix of performances, workshops, discussions and exhibitions from Ireland’s incredible pool of artists and makers.
- Poison
Arts and culturePoison In Poison, acclaimed Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans crafts a powerful, intimate portrait of two people both broken and bound by loss, and by all that remains unspoken between them.
- 0800 Cupid - 2026 Tour
Arts and culture0800 Cupid - 2026 Tour Theatre juggernauts THISISPOPBABY and cabaret star Emer Dineen bring their heartfelt, raucous, five-star musical extravaganza 0800-CUPID back to Irish stages for a summer tour, following a sell-out premiere season in Ireland and the UK in 2024.
