Riverdance: The New 25th Anniversary Show

Posted on February 19, 2021

The full gala performance of Riverdance: The New 25th Anniversary Show will be available to stream exclusively at GreatStageOnScreen.com. The broadcast premieres at 7.30pm on St Patrick’s Day, March 17, and tickets will be available to purchase from the website throughout March.

Filmed on its anniversary – February 9, 2020 – in the venue where it premiered in 1995, Dublin’s 3Arena, this streaming event will make the gala performance available to fans in their own home for the first time ahead of the rescheduled UK tour, which will see the show visit 27 venues from August 27, 2021. 

Riverdance: The New 25th Anniversary Show is a reinvention of the family favourite, celebrated the world over for its Grammy Award-winning music and the energy and passion of its Irish and international dance. Composer Bill Whelan has rerecorded his soundtrack while producer Moya Doherty and director John McColgan have reimagined the show with innovative lighting, projection, stage and costume designs.  Many of the cast featured in the gala performance weren’t even born in 1995.

Pictured: Riverdance. Photograph by Jack Hartin © Abhann Productions. 

Nicola Rayner

Nicola Rayner was editor of Dance Today from 2010 to 2015. She has written for a number of publications including The Guardian, The Independent and Time Out Buenos Aires, where she cut her teeth as a dance journalist working on the tango section. Today she continues to dance everything from ballroom to breakdance, with varying degrees of success. Her debut novel, The Girl Before You, was published last year in paperback, ebook and audiobook.