Dublin Theatre Festival boosts profits with classics

A boom in ticket sales for works by Irish playwrights Brian Friel, Enda Walsh, and Conor McPherson contributed to the Dublin Theatre Festival last year recording a greater than threefold increase in profits to €107,626.

The capacity crowds that flocked to see Brian Friel’s celebrated Dancing at Lughnasa and McPherson’s The Night Alive, translated into bumper ticket revenues for the festival.

The total income generated by the festival topped €2m.