{"id":441270,"date":"2026-05-10T04:48:13","date_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:48:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441270\/"},"modified":"2026-05-10T04:48:13","modified_gmt":"2026-05-10T04:48:13","slug":"rte-all-ireland-drama-festival-gala-awards-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/441270\/","title":{"rendered":"RT\u00c9 All Ireland Drama Festival Gala Awards 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Live from Athlone, watch the 2026 RT\u00c9 All Ireland Drama Festival Awards ceremony &#8211; it all kicks off from 9pm on Saturday 9th May.<\/p>\n<p>Held under the auspices of the Amateur Drama Council of Ireland (ADCI), the national festival for amateur drama, the RT\u00c9 All Ireland Drama Festival is a celebration of creativity and community across Ireland.<\/p>\n<p>With awards for achievements both on and off stage, including Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Best Stage Design, the stakes are high to see who will win the coveted Perpetual Trophy and The Abbey Theatre Award.<\/p>\n<p>The nine finalists are:<\/p>\n<p>Balally Players with Heaven by Eugene O`Brien<\/p>\n<p>Wexford Drama Group with Someone Who`ll Watch Over Me by Frank McGuinness<\/p>\n<p>Kilmeen Drama Group with Ballyturk by Enda Walsh<\/p>\n<p>Bunclody Kilmyshall Drama Group with Da by Hugh Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Ballycogley Payers with All My Sons by Arthur Miller<\/p>\n<p>Dalkey Players with Sive by John B Keane<\/p>\n<p>Brideview Drama Group with Da by Hugh Leonard<\/p>\n<p>Bridge Drama Group with Things I Know To Be True by Andrew Bovell<\/p>\n<p>Corofin Dramatic Society with Wit by Margaret Edson<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about this year&#8217;s event<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dramafestival.ie\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Live from Athlone, watch the 2026 RT\u00c9 All Ireland Drama Festival Awards ceremony &#8211; it all kicks off&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":441271,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[61,60,43],"class_list":["post-441270","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ireland","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=441270"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/441270\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/441271"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=441270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=441270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=441270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}