The Lime Tree Theatre is a state of the art 510 seat theatre, situated in Mary Immaculate College in Limerick city centre. Officially opened on October 30th 2012, the venue hosts a wide range of performances, including theatre, music, comedy, traditional arts, schools performances and conferences. As a large scale theatre, it will be a significant addition to the national cultural infrastructure and, most especially to the cultural, social and economic life of Limerick and the mid-west.
The Lime Tree Theatre is situated on the rapidly expanding campus of Mary Immaculate College which offers a wide range of programmes in education and the liberal arts at both undergraduate and postgraduate level. Currently, over 3,000 students are engaged in studies here. The theatre is funded by the Mary Immaculate Foundation.
- Legally Blonde The Musical
Arts and cultureLegally Blonde The Musical MIDAS turns 25 years old this year and to celebrate they have packed their bags and are off to Harvard to study Law with Elle Woods in this fun, upbeat story of self-discovery.
- Chicken by Sunday's Child
Arts and cultureChicken by Sunday's Child Don Murphy is a proud Irish man, a hopeless ketamine addict and one of his generation’s greatest actors. He also happens to be a chicken. A Kerry cock to be precise. The award winning Chicken returns to Belltable this April due to popular demand.
- Aladdin
Family funAladdin Following on from their sell-out shows ‘The Addams Family’ and ‘All Shook Up’, students from LETSS will take to the stage for Disney’s Aladdin JR.
- An Evening of String Quintet Favourites
Arts and cultureAn Evening of String Quintet Favourites The Vanbrugh & Friends present a programme of jewels from the string quintet repertoire including music by Boccherini, Mozart, Beethoven, Brahms and Dvorak.
- Dave Robb & Band, The Post-Industrial Songs of Gerhard Gundermann
Arts and cultureDave Robb & Band, The Post-Industrial Songs of Gerhard Gundermann Dave Robb is a Scottish bouzouki player, singer/songwriter and academic, now resident in Belfast. He has recently released a new album Filling Station for Losers.
- Gundermann
Free things to doGundermann In GUNDERMANN, director Andreas Dresen looks at the life of Gerhard “Gundi” Gundermann – one of the most formative music artists of East Germany – with sensibility, affection, and humor. Gundermann died in 1998, at the age of 43.
- The Loved Ones
Arts and cultureThe Loved Ones The Loved Ones returns to the Lime Tree Theatre for four performances only this April due to popular demand. This powerful piece of theatre is by Limerick Playwright Erica Murray.
- The Little Prince
Family funThe Little Prince ‘Has a sheep on a star eaten a rose?’ If that sounds silly then you might be like the King and the Business-Man on their lonely asteroids, forgetting that the most important things can only be understood with the heart.
