Moonfish Theatre - Thrice upon a time

Thu, May 14, 2015

THE GALWAY Music Festival, which takes place this weekend, is never complete without a free family show from Moonfish Theatre Company, and this year's event is going to be Grimm.

The Matchmaker - tickets still available

Thu, May 14, 2015

TOMORROW'S STAGING of John B Keane's much loved comedy The Matchmaker is almost sold-out [May 15], but there are still tickets available to the Saturday May 16 performance.

The lives of the Brontës - on stage

Thu, May 07, 2015

HOW IS it possible that three women, living in isolation on the Yorkshire moors, could have written some of the most powerful and passionate fiction of all time?

A theatre show in support of YesEquality

Thu, May 07, 2015

A YOUNG woman finds herself at an unexpected, yet strangely inevitable, crossroads, and in this situation, she has an odd proposal to put to an audience.

The Way Back Home

Thu, May 07, 2015

A BOY discovers a single-propeller aeroplane in his closet, which amazingly allows him fly into space, where he meets an alien who needs a friend and some help.

Women buried alive in a tomb

Thu, May 07, 2015

CONDEMNED TO die with their emperor in his tomb, the concubines who have not produced any male children ponder their fate. This is the setting for Bryony Lavery’s play More Light.

‘The play is about power’ - Bernard Field discusses The Early Hours

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

FIVE YEARS after its premiere, Bernard Field’s tense psycho-drama, The Early Hours, returns to the Town Hall Studio next week in a new production from Field’s own Haw Theatre Company.

DruidShakespeare begins next week

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

DRUIDSHAKESPEARE, the epic cycle of plays where the Galway company takes on, not an Irish playwright, but the greatest English dramatist of all time, starts next week.

The Tale Of Ancient Lights

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE TALE Of The Ancient Lights, an award-winning one-man show fusing circus, dance, magic, echnology, and Asian art, is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.

A night of ballet and jazz dance

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet is to perform what promises to be dazzling display ballet and jazz dance at the Town Hall Theatre from Wednesday May 6 to Friday 8, at 8pm.

NoRopes to stage Dario Fo play

Thu, Apr 30, 2015

THE OPEN Couple by Italian writer Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio by new Galway theatre company NoRopes.

An all day and night theatre experience

Thu, Apr 23, 2015

A NEW theatre show, which takes place over the course of 24 hours, runs at the Nuns Island Theatre as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2015.

God Bless The Child at Town Hall

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

THE SHORT stories of Cork born author Frank O’Connor are universally regarded as being classics of their kind. Now, for the first time, three of those funniest stories are being brought together as the play God Bless The Child.

Reinventing the heroines of Irish myth

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

DRAWING INSPIRATION from the great Irish epic, the Táin Bo Cuailgne, Women In Arms is a show about Irish myths from the point of view of the women involved.

New Tom Stoppard play @ The Eye

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

TOM STOPPARD’s new play The Hard Problem is running in the National Theatre London, but Galway can see it via a live broadcast to The Eye Cinema.

Reach for the Stars with Club Shine

Thu, Apr 16, 2015

CLUB SHINE, the community youth variety club based in Shantalla, will present its 2015 show, Reach for the Stars, in the Town Hall Theatre.

The Games People Play - the play for the ‘negative-equity generation’

Tue, Apr 14, 2015

THE GAMES People Play, the award winning play for the “negative-equity generation” comes to the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm. Winner of Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards, it stars Aonghus Óg McAnally and Fair City’s Lorna Quinn.

Only Our Own at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

FRESH FROM a critically-acclaimed run in London, Ann Henning Jocelyn’s new play, Only Our Own comes to An Taibhdhearc next week, for two performances only.

Hourglass Theatre Company’s Loose Change

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

GALWAY COMPANY Hourglass Theatre grace the Town Hall studio next week with a trilogy of new one act plays by local writer Ian Patterson, under the title Loose Change.

Galway Theatre Festival programme launch tonight

Thu, Apr 09, 2015

THE GALWAY Theatre Festival holds its Programme Launch this evening at 6.30pm in Biteclub, Electric Garden, Abbeygate Street, with the great Little John Nee as guest speaker.

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