Frost, Nixon square off again in Town Hall

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

Eight years after Peter Morgan's play Frost Nixon opened in London, next week Irish theatregoers will have their first chance to see one of the great dramatic pieces of the last decade when Cairde Mol brings the play to the Town Hall.

Emigrant tales in Cathal Leonard’s Forgotten Me

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

The milieu of the London Irish and changing face of the emigrant experience form the backdrop to Forgotten Me, a new play by Cathal Leonard which runs at the Town Hall studio next week.

Olwen Fouéré wins major award at Edinburgh Fringe for riverrun

Thu, Aug 21, 2014

West of Ireland artist Olwen Fouéré, star of the play riverrun, has been awarded The Herald Archangel Award, one of the most prestigious awards of the Edinburgh Festivals.

JOLT presents interactive theatre piece Immersed in the Void at the Town Hall

Wed, Aug 20, 2014

As part of its August series of workshops and talks, JOLT will present an interactive theatre event, Immersed in the Void, on Friday and Saturday in the Town Hall Theatre at 5.30pm.

A Few Good Men from Keegan Theatre

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

WASHINGTON’S KEEGAN Theatre touch down in the Town Hall next week with its much acclaimed staging of Aaron Sorkin’s military courtroom drama A Few Good Men.

Musical Theatre Training courses

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

TWO COURSES in musical theatre training, under the tuition of Australian performer Claire Healy, take place in The Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, in September.

The Dirty Circus comes to Salthill

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

MISS BURLESQUE Ireland and an award winning Cirque De Soleil performer will take to the stage of The Dirty Circus this Saturday from 9pm.

Can you catch The Gingerbreadman?

Thu, Aug 14, 2014

“RUN, RUN as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbreadman.” You might not be able to catch him, but you will be able to see this mischievous fellow.

Galway writer's play to be staged in New York

Wed, Aug 13, 2014

THE MCGOWAN Trilogy, a series of one-act plays by the award-winning Galway writer Seamus Scanlon will be performed as part of New York’s Annual Festival of Irish Theatre.

Galway’s Fíbín to stage new play at Dublin Theatre Festival

Tue, Aug 12, 2014

GALWAY’S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will make its Dublin Theatre Festival debut next month with its production of Paul Mercier’s new play Réiltín.

Olwen Fouéré wins award at Edinburgh fringe

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

A THEATRE show produced by, and which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival, has been impressing audiences at Edinburgh, where it also scooped an award.

An Taibhdhearc seeks new writers

Thu, Aug 07, 2014

AN TAIBHDHEARC is seeking new writers for the stage through its Walter Macken Award which has prize money of €1,000.

A Few Good Men

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

YOU CAN’T handle the truth!” For years after the 1992 film version, Jack Nicholson’s declaration during A Few Good Men’s climatic courtroom scene became one of the catch-phrases of the decade.

Druid start rehearsals on new Tom Murphy play

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

DRUID BEGAN rehearsals this week on a new Tom Murphy play, Brigit, and on his 1985 classic Bailegangaire, both of which will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre in September.

A night of burlesque and peepshow

Thu, Jul 31, 2014

A FIERY display of burlesque dancing, sword swallowing, and knife throwing is in store for Galway when The Pretty Things Peepshow hits town.

Chapatti, iD, Star of the Sea, Midsummer

Thu, Jul 24, 2014

CHRISTIAN O’REILLY’S Chapatti, jointly produced by Northlight Theatre Company and GIAF, is a real crowd-pleaser of a play.

New play gets public reading today

Tue, Jul 22, 2014

A BOY Called Nedd, a new play by Emily Gillmor Murphy, will be given a public reading by NUI Galway drama students in the Druid theatre this afternoon.

A feast of theatre @ Galway Fringe Festival

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

FROM EPIC, ancient, voyages to the ‘girls night out’, from stories of bag ladies to the return of Christ, the Galway Fringe Festival theatre strand has it all.

Aindrias de Staic - The Man from Moogaga

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

THERE WAS The Man from UNCLE, later there was ‘the man from Del Monte’, but right now there is Aindrias de Staic, and he is The Man from Moogaga.

Galway burlesque artist nominated for award

Thu, Jul 17, 2014

MISS TURKISH Delight is getting set for Saturday’s Miss Burlesque Ireland competition in the Button Factory in Dublin - the only performer from Galway to reach the final.

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