For over 90 years, the Abbey has been the national theatre of Ireland and home of the world-famed abbey Players. The original theatre, destroyed in a 1951 fire, was replaced in 1966 by the current modern 600-seat building. Names like Yeats, Synge, O’Casey, Beckett, Behan, and most recently, Tony Award-winner Hugh Leonard are but a few of the revered Irish Playwrights whose works have been staged here.
