Abbey Theatre

American  

noun

1. a theater in Dublin associated with the Irish National Theatre Society (founded 1901) and the dramas of Synge, Yeats, and Lady Gregory.

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Abbey Theatre British  

noun

1. an influential theatre in Dublin (opened 1904): associated with it were Synge, Yeats, Lady Gregory, and O'Casey. It was destroyed by fire in 1951 but was rebuilt; it reopened in 1966

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Example Sentences

You wouldn’t want to pass up a chance to watch the Abbey Theatre perform “The Plough and the Stars,” the Sean O’Casey play that provoked riots when the Dublin troupe debuted it in 1926.

From Washington Post • May 19, 2016

His next move was to Dublin's Abbey Theatre where he was spotted performing in Of Mice and Men by movie director John Boorman, who would hand him his first major film role in Excalibur.

From BBC • Apr. 10, 2016

Other stage performances included Mark Antony opposite Helen Mirren's Cleopatra at the Olivier Theatre in London and the title role in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2010.

From BBC • Jan. 14, 2016

Yes, this drama is a throwback, an old-fashioned story that might have delighted audiences at Dublin's Abbey Theatre 75 years ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 19, 2015

"The Turn of the Road" ... is beyond question one of the most sterling products of the Irish literary revival ever seen at the Abbey Theatre.

From The Turn of the Road A Play in Two Scenes and an Epilogue by Mayne, Rutherford