October brings a full month of live events to TakeYourSeats.ie venues across Dublin, Cork and Limerick. Mystery Ensemble play Miyazaki in Limerick and Cork and Tim Burton at the O'Reilly Theatre on Halloween, The New Theatre hosts theatre, spoken word and an album launch, the Viking Theatre has comedy and drama, and Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival events run from 23 to 26 October. Several shows are already sold out — they are marked below — so book early for the rest.
GMT Jazz Club
Glass Mask Theatre @ Best Seller Cafe, Dawson Street, Dublin · Thursday 15 October (1 October sold out) · 7pm (doors 6pm) · 2hr 30min
Step into a transformed Glass Mask Theatre for a decadent night of live jazz with a nod to 1970s New York. Seating is unassigned and a table is included with your ticket, with optional pre-show food and drink available. Further dates follow on 5 and 12 November and 10 and 17 December. Tickets from €35.00.
SOME OF OUR CHILDREN by Quintessence Theatre
The New Theatre, Dublin · Thursday 1 & Friday 2 October · 7:30pm (doors 7:15pm) · Recommended for ages 12+
Quintessence Theatre, in association with An Táin Arts Centre, Dundalk, present a powerful portrayal of a child's life in the Irish foster care system. Inspired by real stories and devised by the company using physical ensemble storytelling, it is a compelling and often comedic drama. Cast: Anthony Kinahan, Leah Rossiter and Ceara Carney; directed by Calvin Magee. Tickets from €22.50.
The Love Hungry Farmer — SOLD OUT
Viking Theatre, Dublin · 1–10 October (no Sunday performance) · 8pm nightly (doors 7:45pm)
City Theatre Dublin presents John B Keane's The Love Hungry Farmer, starring Seamus O'Rourke and directed by Michael Scott — the story of John Bosco McLaine's search for a wife, in an uproarious evening of laughter, love, hope and desire. Every October performance is sold out. No latecomers admitted.
Word on The Street — Temple Bar 35
The New Theatre, Dublin · Thursday 8 October · 7:30pm (doors 7:15pm) · 18+
The Temple Bar Company presents a lively evening of new Irish voices, storytelling and performance exploring contemporary Dublin, identity and culture. MC Matt Lunson introduces Keith-James Walker's comedic Kill, Elvis, the poet and performer FELISPEAKS, and bilingual spoken word poet Cormac Mac Gearailt, the 2024 All-Ireland Slam Champion. Tickets from €5.00.
SAMUEL | Oh Boy | Album Launch
The New Theatre, Dublin · Friday 9 & Saturday 10 October · 7:30pm (doors 7pm) · 45 minutes – interval – 45 minutes
Ada Alma and Frieda Freytag are SAMUEL, a Dublin-based multi-instrumentalist duo whose cinematic music fuses classical-tinged acoustic instrumentation with layers of electronic soundscapes. Joined by Rob Campbell on cello and double bass, they celebrate the release of their first album, Oh Boy. Vinyl and CDs will be on sale, and a complimentary glass of wine or non-alcoholic drink is served at the interval. Tickets from €18.00.
Hayao Miyazaki's Dreams by Mystery Ensemble — Limerick
Mount Saint Alphonsus Redemptorist Catholic Church, Limerick · Saturday 10 October · 8:30pm (doors 8pm)
Mystery Ensemble perform magical music from the anime of Oscar-winning director Hayao Miyazaki, including Joe Hisaishi's music for My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Laputa: Castle in the Sky. This is a free-seating event, so early arrival is advised. Presented by Red Events & Distribution Ltd. Tickets from €35.00.
PADDY – The Life and Times of Paddy Armstrong — SOLD OUT
Viking Theatre, Dublin · 14–17 & 21–24 October · 8pm (doors 7:45pm)
After three sold-out runs, the multi-award-winning one-man play returns to the Viking. Inspired by Paddy Armstrong's memoir Life After Life, a Guildford Four Memoir, it stars Don Wycherley as Paddy. Written by Mary-Elaine Tynan, Don Wycherley and Niamh Gleeson, directed by Mary-Elaine Tynan and presented by Wooden Bridge Productions. Every October performance is sold out.
Word on The Street
The New Theatre, Dublin · Thursday 15 October · 7:30pm (doors 7:15pm) · 18+
A second evening of new Irish voices from The Temple Bar Company, with three distinctive artists: New Era, New Éire, written by Luke De Brún and performed by Jason Corbett; Lifting the Gate from multidisciplinary artist Ben MacCaoilte; and Healing Through Hip Hop with Thought Brownie. Tickets from €5.00.
REBOOT!
The New Theatre, Dublin · Saturday 17 October · 7:30pm (doors 7pm) · 65 minutes · 12+ (some strong language)
A new satirical comedy sketch show to provoke climate action, written and performed by Anthony Kinahan and Ceara Carney and directed by Chris Moran. Presented by Anthony Kinahan & Castán Productions in association with Droichead Arts Centre, Drogheda, and brought to you by the Climate Ambassador Programme for Climate Action Week 2026. Tickets from €13.00.
Neil Delamere — Work in Progress — SOLD OUT
Viking Theatre, Dublin · Sunday 18 October · 6pm (doors 5:45pm) · 60 minutes
A chance to see Neil Delamere in creative mode as he refines the next chapter of his stand-up ahead of his brand new show — loose, lively and full of surprises. This show is sold out. No latecomers admitted.
THE WITNESS — SOLD OUT
Glass Mask Theatre @ Best Seller Cafe, Dawson Street, Dublin · 20–24 & 26–31 October (run continues to 1 November) · 7pm (doors 6pm)
A one-man show written, acted and directed by Rex Ryan: the extraordinary story of Joey the Lips O'Callaghan, the youngest person ever to be placed in witness protection in Ireland, bringing Nicola Tallant's best-selling book to vivid life. Every performance is sold out.
Suitcase Stories — Nosferatu by Freda O'Byrne — SOLD OUT
Charleville Mall Library, Dublin · Friday 23 October · 3pm · 45 minutes · 8+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
A free Dublin City Council Bram Stoker Festival event: puppetry, object theatre and storytelling bring the classic tale of Nosferatu to life inside a suitcase, inspired by the 1922 silent horror film and the artistry of German Expressionist filmmaker F. W. Murnau, with an original score by John Moore. Sold out.
In Stoker's Footsteps: A National Library Walking Tour — SOLD OUT
National Library of Ireland Main Building, Dublin · Friday 23 October · 4pm · 75 minutes · 12+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: NLI staff lead a walking tour of the streets and buildings connected to Stoker and the Dublin of his time, starting and finishing at the Library's Victorian Main Building. An outdoor event — in poor weather the tour is held within the Library. Sold out.
Bram Stoker's Influences: Jarlath Killeen in Conversation with Jason McElligott — SOLD OUT
Joly Lecture Theatre, National Library of Ireland, Dublin · Friday 23 October · 6pm (doors 5:30pm) · 60 minutes · 12+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: Professor Jarlath Killeen of Trinity College Dublin and Dr Jason McElligott, Director of Marsh's Library, delve into the many influences on Stoker's work, from Egyptomania to medical theories. Sold out.
Marsh's by Candlelight — SOLD OUT
Marsh's Library, Dublin · Friday 23 & Saturday 24 October · 6:30pm & 7:30pm · 45 minutes · 12+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: an eerie after-hours tour of Ireland's oldest public library, first opened to the public in 1707, with its ghost stories, Gothic connections and the page in the visitors' book where Bram Stoker left his signature. All four tours are sold out.
The Museum of Curiosities presents: Senses — SOLD OUT
Museum of Curiosities, Dublin · Friday 23 – Sunday 25 October · 7pm, 8pm & 9:30pm · 45 minutes · 18+
Bram Stoker Festival: Dublin's strangest museum becomes a bizarre, immersive journey through the five senses across its five rooms, with musicians Frances Wilde and Alannah Thornburgh and cabaret performer Big Chief Random Chaos. All performances are sold out.
Hayao Miyazaki's Dreams by Mystery Ensemble — Cork
Holy Trinity Church (Capuchins), Fr. Mathew Quay, Cork · Friday 23 October · 8:30pm (doors 8pm)
The Cork date of Mystery Ensemble's Miyazaki programme: works by Joe Hisaishi from My Neighbour Totoro, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle and Laputa: Castle in the Sky, alongside works by other composers inspired by Miyazaki's art. Free seating — early arrival is advised. Presented by RED EVENTS & Distribution Ltd. Tickets from €35.00.
From The Sack 'Em Ups to the Anatomy Act: Body Snatching in Dublin Graveyards — SOLD OUT
Green Street Courthouse, Dublin · Saturday 24 October · 12pm · 60 minutes · 15+ (under 18s accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: Donal Fallon (Three Castles Burning) interviews historian Warren Farrell, author of Curious Ireland: Forgotten People and Overlooked Places, on the strange history of body snatching in Irish cemeteries. Sold out.
Donal Fallon's Tour of Mount Jerome Cemetery — SOLD OUT
Mount Jerome Cemetery, Dublin · Sunday 25 October · 10am, 12pm & 2:15pm · 75 minutes · 12+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: historian Donal Fallon leads a specially commissioned walking tour through one of Ireland's finest collections of Victorian memorials, tombs, vaults and crypts, with names from the Irish supernatural tradition including William Wilde and Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu. All three tours are sold out.
Stoker on Stoker: Unearthing the Secrets of Dracula
Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College Dublin · Sunday 25 October · 1:30pm · 90 minutes · 12+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: Dacre Stoker, Bram Stoker's great-grandnephew and co-author of Dracul, presents his multimedia exploration of Bram's life and the creation of Dracula, drawing on rare photographs, manuscripts, maps and Stoker's own research notes. This event will have ISL interpreters. Tickets from €13.00. Wheelchair accessible seating is available, and the essential access companion ticket is free.
Stoker on the Runway: The Gothic in Contemporary Fashion
Graduates Memorial Building, Trinity College Dublin · Sunday 25 October · 4pm (doors 3:30pm) · 60 minutes · 16+ (under 18s must be accompanied by an adult)
Bram Stoker Festival: historian and fashion expert Laura Fitzachary reveals the dark and surprising connections between Irish fashion, Bram Stoker and contemporary designers from Alexander McQueen to Simone Rocha in an illustrated talk. Tickets from €13.00. Wheelchair accessible seating is available, and the essential access companion ticket is free.
Dublin's Victorian Pubs — A Walking Tour with Donal Fallon — SOLD OUT
The Palace Bar, Dublin · Monday 26 October · 12pm · 120 minutes · 18+
Bram Stoker Festival: Donal Fallon, author of The Dublin Pub, leads a specially commissioned walk through the pubs and personalities of Stoker's Victorian Dublin, passing The Palace, Mulligan's, Davy Byrne's, The Bailey, McDaid's, Toners and Kennedy's. Sold out.
Blood, Guts & Black Pudding
Medley, Dublin · Monday 26 October · 2pm (doors 1:30pm) · 90 minutes · 18+
Bram Stoker Festival: Kate Ryan, author of Blood, Guts & Black Pudding, is in conversation with chef Andrew Rudd about one of Ireland's oldest foods, before a tasting of black pudding from blood pudding makers still going strong in Dublin. Please note the talk includes depictions of animal blood collection. This performance will have ISL interpretation. Tickets from €20.00. Wheelchair accessible seating is available, and the essential access companion ticket is free.
Scanra: The Bonfire — SOLD OUT
Bewley's Café, Dublin · Monday 26 October · 7:30pm (doors 7pm) · 3.5 hours · 18+ (strong language and adult themes)
Bram Stoker Festival: a spellbinding night of music, myth and storytelling unearthing the ancient Irish origins of Samhain, with Branwen Kavanagh, Sarah McKenna Dunne, Foxx and Alannah Thornburgh and performance poet Róisín Nic Ghearailt at the helm. Part of the festival's Night Bites after-dark series. Sold out.
Anne Gildea — Further Adventures in WOMANING
Viking Theatre, Dublin · Monday 26 – Friday 30 October (continues 2–7 November) · 8pm nightly (doors 7:45pm)
Two shows for the price of one: Further Adventures in WOMANING plus a work-in-progress show. After a sell-out run in January, Anne returns to the Viking, weaving a path through a changing half century of “womany stuff” — from 18-hour girdles and Housewives of the Year to ripped influencer grannies pumping iron on Insta. No latecomers admitted. Tickets from €20.00.
Tim Burton's Universe by Mystery Ensemble
O'Reilly Theatre, Belvedere College, Dublin · Saturday 31 October · 5pm (doors 4:30pm) & 7pm (doors 6:30pm) · 60 minutes · 6+
Celebrate Halloween weekend with music from Tim Burton's films — from Alice in Wonderland, The Nightmare Before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands to Beetlejuice, Corpse Bride and Netflix's Wednesday — with the music of Danny Elfman, Burton's lifelong collaborator, at its heart, in Mystery Ensemble's own arrangements. Presented by Red Events & Distribution Ltd. Programme subject to change. Reserved seating, tickets from €20.00.
