A Christmas Carol at The Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

ONE OF the greatest stories ever written about Christmas, and also one of the most influential, reinterpreted, and best loved, is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a new production of which will be staged in Galway.

Cinderella is this year's Limerick panto

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

MAGIC, ROMANCE, a feisty heroine, a handsome prince, dubious sisters in need of a beauty blogger boot camp, chart hits, and hilarity will combine in Cinderella, this year's SPAR Panto at the University Concert Hall, Limerick.

Snámh na Saoirse

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

AN TAIBHDHEARC is set to host Snámh na Saoirse, an imaginative play by Róisín Sheehy, which fuses dance, drama, and music. This is Sheehy’s debut work for theatre and is a poetic re-telling of a tragic drowning which occurred off the Great Blasket Island in 1909.

The Nutcracker - a family favourite

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE NUTCRACKER is a family and Christmas favourite, and a special performance of this show, designed to sweep children into the fantasy world of Clara and Fritz, and their enemy the Mouse King, comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

KATS comedy supper theatre

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

IN NEED of a good laugh? Let KATS supper theatre will provide the hilarity when the award winning theatre company perform Eleanor Fossey's Splitting Hairs and Michael J Ginelly's Pretend Sick.

Ballet Ireland’s 'fresh and modern' Romeo & Juliet

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

BALLET IRELAND is bringing its critically-acclaimed version of Romeo & Juliet, accompanied by Prokofiev's incredible music, and performed by a cast of world-class dancers, to the Town Hall Theatre for two nights only.

The death penalty and The Exonerated

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

THE EXONERATED, hailed as “an artful and moving evening of documentary theatre” by Variety, in its examination of the lives and experiences of six people exonerated from death row, has its first staging in Galway this month.

The Good Father returns

Thu, Nov 16, 2017

ON NEW Year's Eve, two very different strangers meet, each looking to shake off the disappointments of the past, but champagne and cheap lager leave this unlikely couple with an unplanned pregnancy.

Dx2 - a double-bill of dance duets

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

DX2, A double bill of duets from the award winning Dylan Quinn Dance Theatre, and acclaimed dancers Laura Murphy and Rob Heaslip, will be performed in Galway as part of a national tour.

Beauty and the Beast - Renmore Panto 2018

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

REHEARSALS ARE in full swing for Renmore’s 39th annual pantomime, Beauty and The Beast, which runs at the Town Hall Theatre from December 30 to January 14.

Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

ANDREW LLOYD WEBBER and Tim Rice's much loved musical Joseph and the Amazing Technicolour Dreamcoat will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre by Claregalway's 9 Arch Musical Society.

Auditions for Sister Act

Thu, Nov 09, 2017

SISTER ACT, the musical about a soul singer who is placed in witness protection in a convent and who revolutionises the life of its nuns, will be staged by Twin Productions in the Town Hall in March 2018.

Alice returns to Wonderland at the Town Hall

Thu, Nov 02, 2017

SLIGO'S MUCH-vaunted Blue Raincoat Theatre Company come to the Town Hall next week with its imaginative staging of Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland, adapted for the stage by Jocelyn Clarke.

CarnEvil...the terror has just been extended

Wed, Nov 01, 2017

CARNEVIL, THAT dark maze into which you are plunged with nothing to guide you but your adrenaline and your fear of encountering those crazed, distrubed being who lurk in wait for you, scratching at the walls...

GB Shaw - a play and a lecture at NUIG

Wed, Nov 01, 2017

GEORGE BERNARD Shaw will be celebrated, examined, and performed at NUI Galway - with a production of his play The Millionairess, and a public discussion on his life and work, involving Fintan O'Toole.

There is vampire with Thereisbear! at an Taibhdhearc

Thu, Oct 26, 2017

THEREISBEAR! THEATRE Company revive their much-praised Sheridan Le Fanu adaptation, The Shadow of Carmilla - Scáth an tSúmaire, in An Taibhdhearc next week, bringing with it a generous dose of Halloween-season spooky chills.

The Dirty Circus Halloween party 2017

Thu, Oct 26, 2017

THE OPULENT surroundings of the Spiegeltent in Eyre Square will play host to a night of glamour, decadence, sauce, and outrageous displays of sexiness, with The Dirty Circus burlesque and cabaret.

What happens when the party goes Boom?

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

SELMA MAE seems to have the perfect life, beautiful home, children, architect husband…but when her social climbing mother arrives to help organise a party to celebrate the completion of her state-of-the-art extension, cracks begin to show.

A new look at Joyce's female Dubliners

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

DUBLINER'S WOMEN is a stage adaptation of James Joyce's famous short story collection, but with the emphasis is on the often overlooked female characters from 'The Boarding House', 'Clay', and 'Eveline' - for once Dubliners is about far more than just 'The Dead'.

Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment - on stage

Thu, Oct 19, 2017

CRIME AND Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s classic story of murder, moral dilemma, and human capacity for evil, comes to the stage of the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, this month.

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