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Bord Gáis Energy Theatre launch 2025 season
Bord Gáis Energy Theatre has launched its new season with a series breathtaking shows for 2025.
From timeless classics to Broadway and West End standouts to dazzling dance, there’s a show for you at Bord Gáis Energy Theatre next year!
Kinky Boots
15 – 19 July 2025
After inheriting his family’s failing shoe factory and with a relationship on the rocks, life is proving to be very challenging for Charlie Price. That is until he meets Lola, a drag queen whose sparkle and unsteady heels might just hold the answer to saving the struggling business.
This joy-filled sensation is based on a true story and hit movie. The show struts back into Bord Gáis Energy Theatre this July. This brand-new production features a star cast including Strictly Come Dancing’s Johannes Radebe, Dan Partridge (Grease), Courtney Bowman (Six) Scott Paige (The Addams Family) and Newtion Matthews (Get Up Stand Up! The Bob Marley Musical).!
The Girl On The Train
25 – 30 August 2025
Rachel longs for a different life. Her only escape is the perfect couple she watches through the train window every day, happy and in love. Or so it appears. When Rachel learns that the woman she’s been secretly watching has suddenly disappeared, she finds herself as a witness and even a suspect in a thrilling mystery. Here she will face bigger revelations than she could ever have anticipated.
The Girl On The Train is adapted from Paula Hawkins’ novel – an international phenomenon selling over twenty million copies worldwide. The show follows up its first sell-out UK tour with a run in Bord Gáis Energy Theatre this August.
Matthew Bourne’s Swan Lake
20 – 24 May 2025
Matthew Bourne’s audacious, rule-breaking reinvention of Tchaikovsky’s masterpiece, Swan Lake, caused a sensation when it premiered almost 30 years ago. The show has gone on become the most successful dance theatre production of all time, creating new audiences and inspiring generations of young dancers. Additionally, it has collected over thirty international accolades including the Olivier Award for Best New Dance Production and three Tony Awards for Best Director of a Musical, Best Choreography and Best Costume Design.
Moulin Rouge! The Musical
From November 2025
Enter a world of splendour, of eye-popping excess, of glitz, grandeur and glory! A world where Bohemians and aristocrats rub elbows and revel in electrifying enchantment.
Winner of 10 Tony awards including Best Musical, Best Director, and Best Choreography, Baz Luhrmann’s revolutionary film comes to life onstage, remixed in a new musical mash-up extravaganza. A celebration of truth, beauty, freedom and – above all – love, Moulin Rouge! is more than a musical; it is a state of mind.
PAW Patrol ®Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure”
13 & 14 September 2025
Mayor Goodway is getting everything shipshape for a big Pirate Day celebration in Adventure Bay. When Cap’n Turbot falls into a dark and mysterious cavern, it’s PAW Patrol to the rescue!
PAW Patrol Live! “The Great Pirate Adventure is the perfect way for families to create lifelong memories and provides kids the opportunity to experience in-person theatre. Since its debut in 2016, PAW Patrol Live! has been seen by over 6 million people, providing fans in over 40 countries with an unforgettable Broadway-style production.
CHORA by Luail
13 May 2025
Ireland’s all-island dance company makes its highly anticipated debut on 13 May 2025 to open Dublin Dance Festival’s 21st Edition with Chora, a triple bill of new dance works by acclaimed choreographers Maria Campos and Guy Nader, Liz Roche, and Mufutau Yusuf.
The title ‘Chora’ relates to an ancient Greek term that refers to space as both a physical place and an abstract idea. Responding to this title, each piece in this captivating show draws on themes of home, memory and landscape, creating unique atmospheres of imagined possibilities, spaces, and timelines.
Melissa Hamilton’s Ballet Stars Gala
17 & 18 September 2025
This unmissable star-studded ballet gala was created exclusively for Bord Gáis Energy Theatre. Coming from the mind of Melissa Hamilton, Ireland’s globally celebrated ballerina, she is joined by her fellow esteemed Royal Ballet dancers, alongside established and rising stars of the international ballet and dance world.
Prepare for breathtaking skill, soulful physicality and emotive beauty to take centre stage, produced by Hamilton Christou Productions.
