Queen Of The Night - A Tribute to Whitney Houston

What to Expect

Queen Of The Night brings a large-scale Whitney Houston tribute production to TF Royal in Castlebar on Saturday 3 October 2026, arriving in Mayo on the back of sold-out performances at the Royal Albert Hall and the London Palladium. Expect “sensational vocalists, a full live band, and dazzling choreography” reworking Houston’s biggest hits, spanning her run of chart-topping ballads and dance tracks from the 1980s and 90s. This is a reserved-seating show rather than the standing, unreserved format used for several of TF Royal’s other autumn concerts, which suits a vocal-driven production like this one where sightlines matter. The Green Room Bar & Restaurant on site is available for pre-show dining if you want to make a full evening of it rather than just catching the concert. Given the production’s pedigree at major UK venues, expect a polished, big-room show rather than a scaled-down tribute act - full staging, a proper band, and vocalists cast specifically for the range Houston’s material demands. Houston’s run of hits through the 1980s and 90s set records for consecutive US number ones that still stand today, which gives a tribute production this scale of ambition a genuinely deep catalogue of ballads and dance tracks to draw from across the night. It’s open daily from 8am to 9pm with full table service, and sits alongside the smaller Yew Tree Café in the same complex. TF Royal also runs a 3-star hotel on site and ten further function and conference rooms besides the theatre itself, so staying over after a reserved-seating show like this one is a straightforward option rather than a late drive home.

Good to Know

• Date: Saturday 3 October 2026
• Doors: 7:30pm | Show: 8:00pm
• Price: From €36.15 (plus booking fees)
• Seating: Reserved
• Tickets: TF Royal box office or tfroyal.ie
• Payment: Cashless venue, card only
• Green Room Bar & Restaurant on site for pre-show dining

Getting There

TF Royal is on the Old Westport Road on the edge of Castlebar, with on-site parking and a multi-storey car park close by. Castlebar sits on the N5, roughly two and a half hours from Dublin and an hour from Galway, and is served by Bus Eireann from Dublin, Galway, Westport and Ballina.

While You’re in Castlebar

Castlebar’s town centre has a solid choice of restaurants for a pre-show meal if you’d rather eat off-site before a reserved-seating show like this one. There is more to see in Castlebar and across Co. Mayo.