Brú Theatre's Cleite in Connemara

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

CLEITE, THE site-specific theatre piece which fuses sean nós; the Basel masks of French theatre director Jacques Lecoq, and west of Ireland folklore, will be performed in Connemara next week.

Summer sauce with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Jun 27, 2019

GALWAY CITY'S monthly instalment of sauce, decadence, and glamour, The Dirty Circus, returns to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday July 6, with another feast of burlesque and cabaret.

Small Island - on stage and on screen

Thu, Jun 20, 2019

SMALL ISLAND, Andrea Levy’s Orange Prize-winning novel, comes to the stage of Britain's National Theatre, and the Thursday June 27 performance will be broadcast live to The Eye, Wellpark, at 7pm.

When social media takes a toll on a relationship

Wed, Jun 19, 2019

SOCIAL MEDIA can be about connection and interaction. It can also be a massive distraction, causing people too ignore the world around them, and neglect those closest to them.

Druid presents the world premiere of EPIPHANY

Wed, Jun 19, 2019

Druid presents the world premiere of EPIPHANY a new play by Brian Watkins.

An operatic search for Rosemary Kennedy

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

THE NAMES John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy are iconic in American politics, and throughout the decades have continued to resonate, but there were other Kennedy children, not least of whom was Rosemary Kennedy.

NUIG's Summer Drama Festival

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

LEADING GALWAY theatre practitioners, such as Little John Nee, Gerry Conneely, and Hot Potato Productions will take part in the new Summer Drama Festival which is taking place in The Cube at NUI Galway from July 20 to 27.

A father's long, strange, shopping trip

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

PAT KINEVANE, described as "a truly remarkable performer" by The Arts Review, brings his new show, Before, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day the iconic department store shut down for good, to the Town Hall Theatre.

Get involved in Peter Pan - The Musical

Thu, Jun 13, 2019

PETER PAN - The Musical will be this year's summer production from Galway's award winning Twin Productions, which will run in the Town Hall theatre from August 22 to 26.

A Hoochie Coochie night at The Dirty Circus

Thu, May 23, 2019

"I'M GONNA make you girls, lead me by my hand, then the world'll know, I'm the hoochie-coochie man!" So sang Muddy Waters on his legendary 1954 single, and some of that 'black cat bone' and mojo vibe will be at The Dirty Circus this weekend.

Two world premieres feature in new Druid Season

Thu, May 16, 2019

DRUID THEATRE Company will stage the world premiers of two new plays - Epiphany by Brian Watkins and The Beacon by Nancy Harris - as well as presenting three new works for the Druid Debuts strand of the Galway International Arts Festival.

MayFly to the...Movies

Thu, May 16, 2019

IF YOU have ever wanted to be involved a film, MayFly To The...Movies is your chance, with the audience invited to take part in a novel live cinema experience where actors and musicians provide real-time improvisation to a film on screen.

Mikel Murfi - The Man In The Woman’s Shoes

Thu, May 09, 2019

THE MAN In The Woman's Shoes, Mikel Murfi's multi-award winning one man show, described as "a miniature masterpiece” by The Times, returns to Galway's Town Hall Theatre.

Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl returns to Galway

Thu, May 09, 2019

PUMPGIRL IS a turbo-charged race through diesel fumes and country music in the boggy border regions of County Armagh, and a journey into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three damaged characters.

Druid announce second Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary

Thu, May 09, 2019

DRUID THEATRE Company is seeking applications for its second Marie Mullen Bursary, which is open to female theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing, and dramaturgy.

When your freedom is in someone else's hands

Thu, May 02, 2019

IN A dystopian future - in art, is there ever another kind? - people must annually prove their life has worth or risk being burned alive. This is ARBITRATION (or a life worth living), and it is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

The pressure to be Virtually Perfect

Thu, May 02, 2019

IN PREVIOUS generations the influence of the beauty industry on young women was limited to exposure to supermodels, advertisements, and celebrities. Today young people are constantly exposed to a stream of 'perfection' through digital and social media.

Bringing Madness round to Our House

Thu, May 02, 2019

MADNESS, THE British ska-pop legends who lit up the British charts in the 1980s with 'Baggy Trousers', 'House Of Fun', 'It Must Be Love', and 'Our House', and who remain a much loved institution, will be celebrated in Galway this month.

This Was Never Going To Be Normal

Thu, May 02, 2019

THE WORLD premiere of This Was Never Going To Be Normal, an original physical theatre sculptural installation, featuring sound, art, and voice, will take place at this month's Galway Theatre Festival.

Gripping thriller Spotless comes to Town Hall

Theatre Reviews Thu, Apr 25, 2019

Emma Willis, from The Young Offenders, and Ciara O’Callaghan, from Fair City, co-star in Gary Duggan’s potent new play, Spotless, which comes to the Town Hall, for one performance only, on Thursday May 2.

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