4 Best Performing Arts Venues in St. Stephen's Green and Around, Dublin

A long-established, tiny, get-close-to-the-band venue upstairs, the International also hosts theater in the afternoon and comedy on weekends.

Set in a striking, glass-front building, Opium hosts regular rock gigs or bass-thumping international DJ sets. There's a Pan-Asian restaurant out front if you get peckish.

Under its glorious "pepper canister" cupola, St. Stephen's Church stages a tempting program of choral and orchestral events.

It might look a bit shabby around the edges, but Whelan's is one of the city's best—and most popular—music venues. Well-known performers play everything from rock to folk to traditional music.