Acting workshop with Linda Bhreathnach

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

CONNEMARA FILM maker Linda Bhreathnach, writer, producer, and co-director of the acclaimed short film Adulting, will give a workshop in Acting for Camera at the Galway Actors Workshop.

Get Pulled at the Town Hall

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

"GET YOUR coat, you've pulled!" is one of the oldest, cockiest, and certainly cheesiest 'chat up' lines ever devised by the fallen mind of man - and who else but a certain kind of man would think such a line might work?

Bounce your way to Baboró

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

BOUNCE, A delightful blend of acrobatics, music, and a very physical form of dance, with a captivating live soundtrack, comes to this month's Baboró International Arts Festival for Children.

A night of one acts plays in Loughrea

Thu, Oct 12, 2017

A NIGHT of one act plays, by the writers Paul Maher, Barry McKinley, and Stephen Smith, will be performed by the Seumas O’Kelly Players, in the Temperance Hall, Loughrea, next week.

Druid’s Waiting for Godot returns to Galway

Mon, Oct 09, 2017

DRUID THEATRE'S acclaimed production of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot, one of the highlights of the 2016 Galway International Arts Festival, will return for a 12 week national and international tour in 2018.

Experiencing Peter Pan anew at Baboró

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

THE BABORÓ International Arts Festival for Children gets underway in less than two weeks’ time and one of the must-see shows is The Peter Pan Experience by acclaimed Dutch company Het Laagland.

The Playboy Of The Western World – The Musical

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

A RAUCOUS and rollicking musical production of JM Synge's The Playboy Of The Western World, which raised the roof of the Town Hall Theatre when it ran there last November, returns this month for three performances.

A soldier's tribute to Elvis

Thu, Oct 05, 2017

ELVIS PRESLEY served in the US army from 1958 to 1960, earning the rank of sergeant in a tank battalion of the 32nd Armor Regiment, 3rd Armored Division. Now another soldier is stepping into the King's shoes for a tribute show to the boy from Tupelo.

Theatre review: King of the Castle (Druid Theatre Company)

Theatre Reviews Wed, Oct 04, 2017

THOUGH WIDELY acknowledged as one of our foremost writers, Eugene McCabe is also, paradoxically, somewhat unsung. This may be explained by his output being less than prolific, with lengthy gaps where he focused on tending his farm, and that he wrote across different media – stage, television and fiction.

One Night Stand – adapting Louis CK for Vodafone Comedy Carnival

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

REVERED US comic Louis CK’s Horace and Pete was a one-series webcast black comedy described as "Cheers on Prozac" and which won a Peabody Award. Written and directed by Louis CK, who also starred as bar-owner Horace, it featured such stellar supporting players as Steve Buscemi, Edie Falco, Alan Alda, and Jessica Lange.

Dún na mBan Trí Thine - the return and tour

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

AFTER SOLD-out shows in An Taibhdhearc for the 2017 Galway International Arts Festival, Éilis Ní Dhuibhne's Dún na mBan Trí Thine, is back by popular demand.

Can The Watchmaker save time and the city?

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

THE CLOCK in the town's main square has been stolen, leading to confusion and panic among the citizens, especially when evil spirits arrive, causing mayhem, violence, and confusion.

New play-reading group devoted to women playwrights

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

GALWAY SCRIPTS & Scribes is a new play-reading group which, starting next Monday evening at the Commercial Boat Club in Woodquay, will host weekly sessions exploring works by women playwrights.

Footsbarn fly over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

YOU HAVE to go back to 1998 for Footsbarn Theatre Company’s last visit to Galway, so its long-overdue return to the city is a cause for much rejoicing. From Sunday October 1 to Wednesday 4 at The Black Box, Footsbarn will present its freewheeling, richly imaginative, interpretation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Get sizzling with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

BETTY ROSE Royal will make her Irish debut at September Sizzle, this month's show from The Dirty Circus, and another top quality night of burlesque and cabaret sauce and sexiness is assured.

Tara Breathnach brings Molly back to Galway

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

AFTER SUCCESSFUL performances in the Galway Theatre Festival, Inis Oírr, and at the Bloomsday celebrations in the Ibsen Museum, Oslo, Tara Breathnach’s Molly returns to Galway.

Conal Gallen - How's Your Father?

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

HOW’S YOUR Father? the new comedy play by comedian Conal Gallen and his son Rory, comes to the the Town Hall Theatre Galway on Saturday September 23 at 8pm.

Jean Butler to dance for Music for Galway

Mon, Sep 11, 2017

DANCER JEAN Butler and cellist Neil Martin are set to engage in what The New Yorker called "an intense, affectionate, sometimes flirtatious musical conversation" when they perform their show, This Is An Irish Dance, in Galway.

Baboró children's festival announces 2017 programme of events

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

THERE WAS a lively turn out at Galway City Museum’s The Kitchen Café on Monday evening for the programme launch of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, which takes place from October 16 to 22.

The Shape Of Things - theatre for tots

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

THE SHAPE Of Things, an imaginative and interactive show for tiny theatre buffs aged between six months and two years, and combining puppetry, object theatre, music and sound, returns to Galway this month.

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