Join Micky Bartlett on a journey into his own head

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MICKY BARTLETT, at the age of 32, is still trying to move out of his mother's house - a phenomenon all too familiar to anyone in their twenties and early thirties in Ireland.

The Shakespeare Sessions - the Bard for the modern age

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, will each be presented at the Town Hall Theatre, across two days, by the Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education company.

Connemara premiere for new thriller Arracht

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

ARRACHT, the new Irish language feature film from Tom Sullivan, starring Dónall Ó Héalaí, Seán T Ó Meallaigh, and Pádraic Breathach, will receive a special pre-release screening in Indreabhán.

Songs of joy, war, and peace in St Nicholas'

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SONGS OF JOY, war, and peace will be sung in St Nicholas' Collegiate Church when one of America’s top choral groups perform a special concert to raise funds for the church organ.

Birgit Lochmann exhibition

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

BIRGIT LOCHMANN is originally from Duesseldorf, bur has lived in Ireland since the early 1980s. Since retiring from being a dental ceramist, she is now focused entirely on painting.

Get up close and personal with Reg D Hunter

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

CONTROVERSIAL AND acclaimed, Reginald D Hunter returns to the Róisín Dubh this month for a show which will also see a set from the 83-year-old comedian Lynn Ruth Miller.

Ziggy Stardust - live in Galway tonight

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

THE RISE and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars, David Bowie's breakthrough 1972 album, a culturally significant artwork, and a turning point in popular culture, will be performed in Galway.

A night at the opera, at The Eye

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

TWO OPERAS - Der Fliegende Holländer, starring Bryn Terfel, and Fidelio, starring Jonas Kaufmann - will be broadcast live from New York and London, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

A Seminar like no other from SamePage

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

FOUR STUDENTS enter a seminar room and come fact to face with the harshest critique of their lives. They can wither under the storm, or band together and face it head on. Which will they do?

Chris Kent - new show at Town Hall

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

CHRIS KENT has children and therefore feels guilty about his contribution to global over population. He is coming to terms with being called “well trained” for carrying out basic tasks. He also loves his clothes horse.

Book club and Mother's Day at the Pálás

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MOMMIE DEAREST by Christina Crawford, the adopted daughter of actress Joan Crawford, is the book and film for the next meeting of the Pálás Cinema's book club, on March 31.

MCnG’s concert series celebrates 10th anniversary

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

MAOIN CHEOIL na Gaillimhe will marks its 10th anniversary with a series of benefit concerts to raise awareness and funds for local community groups.

Embodied Voice workshop

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

AS PART of his Theatre Artist in Resident year in the Town Hall Theatre, Brú Theatre's James Riordan will curate a host of theatre workshops with European practitioners throughout 2020.

A night of Irish and Slavic music

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

AGU, THE Galway-based artist with Czech/Polish roots, joined by the Galway based musician and producer Tony Higgins, will headline an evening of music and song at the Róisín Dubh.

Little John Nee headlines new Druid Sessions gigs

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

OLLIE JENNINGS' intimate Druid Sessions concert series, at The Mick Lally Theatre, returns in the summer with the first show headlined by the great Little John Nee on Friday June 12.

Macnas presents Gilgamesh

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Macnas announce its most ambitious project to date – the world’s first ever hero’s journey – the legend of Gilgamesh. The epic will be staged as four individual events throughout the year, comissioned by Galway 2020 for the European Captial of Culture celebrations.

Dark Waters; entertaining, rage inducing drama

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 09, 2020

As a fan of previous little guy versus behemoth law films such as Erin Brockovich or anger filling plots like In the Name of the Father, I just had to go and see Dark Waters in the cinema and I was not disappointed. Dark Waters tell us the story behind Cincinnati corporate lawyer Rob Bilott's (Mark Ruffalo) 20 year crusade against chemical company DuPont's unregulated misuse of a chemical compound known as 'C8' which causes illness, cancer, and death in creatures which consume it.

'Writing is always mysterious, contradictory, revelatory‘

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

LAURA CASSIDY has ambition – she is determined to do whatever it takes to become a movie star – but not only ambitions dhe believes stardom is her birthright. Yet something inside her continually thwarts her meeting her destiny.

Emman Idama: No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

NO BLACKS, No Dogs, No Irish - once that was a sign that appeared on boarding houses in Britain, and now it serves - in a slightly altered fashion - as the title of the new show by Emman Idama.

Album review: Autre Monde

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2020

PADDY HANNA has never been afraid to embrace the eccentric and off-kilter side of his creativity on his solo albums, and in Autre Monde songwriter Padraig Cooney, he has met a kindred spirit.

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