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

After six months, he quit to join Dublin’s Abbey theatre.

From The Guardian • Feb. 16, 2019

We viewed the stones of the original Abbey theatre, scattered prettily about the garden of a house on the Vico Road, high on a hillside overlooking Killiney Bay, Dublin’s answer to the Amalfi coast.

From The Guardian • Oct. 15, 2016

His stage work included plays by Chekhov and Brian Friel; he made a rare excursion to the Abbey theatre in Friel's Give Me Your Answer, Do!

From The Guardian • Feb. 13, 2012

When the Abbey theatre in Dublin staged the play in 2007, The Guardian's reviewer called it "powerful stuff".

From BBC • May 10, 2011

Photograph: Bettmann/CORBIS A handful of times during Alan Rickman's performance as John Gabriel Borkman, the audience at Dublin's Abbey theatre lets out a laugh.

From The Guardian • Oct. 25, 2010