A day in the life - Bedsit at GIAF 21
Tue, Aug 17, 2021
“I'M UP and about and living again without realising that that’s what I’m doing.” So says a woman Galway will meet during the 2021 Galway International Arts Festival.
Read more ...Cultural infrastructure must be made a key factor in Galway’s expansion, says Theatre 57
Thu, Aug 12, 2021
AFTER THREE years without funding, Theatre57 have successfully been awarded grants from the Galway County Council and the Arts Council for three separate strands of activity, which will support independent theatre artists in Galway city and county during the next nine months.
Read more ...The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical comes to Coole Park in August
Thu, Jul 29, 2021
KATE O’TOOLE, daughter of the legendary actor Peter O’Toole, will be coming to Galway in August to narrate a special live performance of The Playboy of the Western World - The Musical.
Read more ...Druid to film The Seagull at Coole Park for on demand viewing during arts festival
Mon, Jul 19, 2021
DRUID’S PRODUCTION of The Seagull may have sold-out, but Galway will still be able to see the internationally acclaimed company in action, as the shows will be recorded for streaming in September.
Read more ...Life from the back of a flatbed truck...
Thu, Jul 01, 2021
“THERE ONCE was a man in the middle of his life and he lived in the middle of a small town. He had a grand wee business for himself...moving people's lives from one place to another. He was a removals man.”
Read more ...Brú Theatre to host physical theatre workshops
Thu, Jun 24, 2021
IN AUGUST, Brú School will host a two-week physical theatre summer school for adult theatre makers, led by Phillipa Hambly from Arthaus Berlin and Brú’s James Riordan.
Read more ...One Good Turn - live from The Abbey to Galway
Tue, Jun 22, 2021
ONE GOOD Turn, a new comedy play by Una McKevitt opened this week at The Abbey Theatre in Dublin, and this weekend it will be livestreamed to Galway.
Read more ...Domhnall Gleeson to star in new Enda Walsh play at Galway International Arts Festival
Wed, Jun 02, 2021
DOMHNALL GLEESON, best known for his roles in the new Star Wars trilogy, and as the hapless Doofus in Frank of Ireland, will star in Medicine, the new play by Enda Walsh.
Read more ...Druid to stage Chekhov’s The Seagull in Coole Park
Mon, May 31, 2021
DRUID THEATRE Company will return to Coole Park this summer for a series of live outdoor performances of Chekhov’s The Seagull, directed by Garry Hynes.
Read more ...Fíbín to take over An Taibhdhearc for three years
Thu, May 20, 2021
For the first time, an independent theatre company is to take over the programming and administration of An Taibhdhearc, the national Irish language theatre.
Read more ...Looking at the future of LGBT+ theatre in Galway
Thu, May 20, 2021
THE FUTURE of LGBT+ theatre in Galway, community-building, and making space for diverse stories on the Irish stage, will be the focus of an event taking place next week.
Read more ...Deadline looms for Town Hall's Theatre Development Programme
Mon, May 17, 2021
THE DEADLINE is fast approaching for applications to the Town Hall Theatre's Theatre Development Programme which offers support and mentorship to emerging artists.
Read more ...What does it mean to be a woman?
Thu, May 13, 2021
AWARD WINNING Galway theatre company, Eva’s Echo, is bringing a new one woman show, Uniform, to the Town Hall Theatre, from where it will be streamed to homes around Galway.
Read more ...A one night stand with Ross O’Carroll-Kelly
Tue, May 11, 2021
“THE ROSSMEISTER General is coming to your gaff! And the lockdown isn’t going to stop me! That’s right, people! I’m taking my act from the stage into your bedroom! Or your living room! You could go totally mad and enjoy me in every single room in the house!”
Read more ...DruidGregory scoops Business to Arts award for Druid and Aerogen
Thu, May 06, 2021
DRUID THEATRE Company and Aerogen won Best Small Sponsorship Award at the recent Business to Arts awards, for their partnership on the DruidGregory Education and Community programme.
Read more ...Three young Galwegians chosen for Lasta young curators programme
Mon, May 03, 2021
LISA MANNION, Oisín Parslow, and Emily White - two NUI Galway students and an NUIG graduate - have been chosen for Lasta, the ground-breaking new national arts programme for young people by young people.
Read more ...Town Hall Theatre seeks applications for 2021 Patron Donation Awards
Thu, Apr 29, 2021
The Town Hall Theatre is inviting applications for its 2021 Patron Donation Awards from artists, companies, or producers based in Galway city or county.
Read more ...Drone Bone Jetty - Little John in a dystopian landscape
Thu, Apr 22, 2021
IN A dystopian future, where ‘art without artists’ is the desired reality, Puck roams a ravaged landscape, attempting to find meaning in a world divorced from nature and humanity.
Read more ...Druid announces new production about poet Eavan Boland, edited by Colm Tóibín
Thu, Apr 08, 2021
Druid has announced a new theatrical production, Boland: Journey of a Poet, which will be live streamed from The Mick Lally Theatre, Druid’s home in Galway, from Thursday April 22 to Saturday April 24.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival 2021
Tue, Mar 30, 2021
HOW THEATRE and performance is made, presented, and experienced has changed dramatically over the past 12 months, and the 2021 Galway Theatre Festival will explore this new relationship with creativity and space.
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