REVIEW: Outrage by Deirdre Kinahan ~ Fishamble

Theatre Reviews Thu, Nov 14, 2024

Fishamble's revival of Deirdre Kinahan's Outrage is a production full of familiar names and faces.

REVIEW: Prodigal

Theatre Reviews Thu, Nov 07, 2024

Tuam is experiencing somewhat of an artistic boom at present.

REVIEW: THE MAESTRO & THE MOSQUITA

Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 24, 2024

THE MAESTRO & THE MOSQUITA
by Carmel Winters

Review: I CAN’T BELIEVE IT’S NOT IRELAND

Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 17, 2024

by Paddy Cullivan
Town Hall Theatre, Galway

Review: INDIGESTION

Theatre Reviews Thu, Oct 10, 2024

Full disclosure: I am an admirer of Seamus O’Rourke’s work. I have been fortunate enough to see most of his plays, all of which I enjoyed immensely. Saying that, one would not describe them all as masterpieces.

REVIEW: The House by Tom Murphy ~ Druid

Theatre Reviews Thu, Sep 19, 2024

Thinking about the relationships Druid has forged with playwrights since its inception in 1975, two names immediately spring to mind: Tom Murphy and Martin McDonagh. The former, regarded as one of the most important Irish writers of the twentieth century. The latter, probably the most commercially successful living playwright in the Western world.

REVIEW: Endgame by Druid

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 18, 2024

***
Druid’s decision to revive Beckett’s classic play Endgame came as something of a surprise to some within the Irish theatre community. Its contributions to the Galway International Arts Festival always prove to be a highlight, but often tend to be new plays, many of which go on tour to great acclaim, as was the case with Sonya Kelly’s Furniture and The Last Return.

MASTERCLASS

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 13, 2024

Presented by Brokentalkers and Adrienne Truscott
Town Hall Theatre, Galway, June 11, 2024.

GIAF Reviews: Dead Dog in a Suitcase, Epiphany

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 25, 2019

KNEEHIGH THEATRE Company's Dead Dog In A Suitcase was one of the hottest tickets at this year's Galway International Arts Festival. Adapted by Carl Grose and composer Charles Hazlewood, it was a raucous adaptation of John Gay’s 18th century classic, The Beggar’s Opera.

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.

Looking back on a flurry of locally produced plays

Theatre Reviews Tue, Apr 02, 2019

A FLURRY of locally-produced plays have graced Galway’s stages over the past few weeks, the most of impressive of them being Brú Theatre’s Selvage at the Mick Lally Theatre, written and performed by James Riordan and deftly directed by Lara Campbell.

Wake gives voice to female voicelessness

Theatre Reviews Tue, Feb 19, 2019

HANS CHRISTIAN Andersen’s The Little Mermaid was first published in 1837 and since then it has inspired countless adaptations in print, film, TV and theatre. The latest is Deirdre Sullivan’s dark west of Ireland spin on the story, Wake.

Theatre highlights of 2018

Theatre Reviews Thu, Dec 27, 2018

AND SO ends another year of theatre-going, a year of big shows, small shows, professional shows, amateur shows, local shows, and visiting shows. Rather than doing a general review of the year past, I shall focus on the shows I enjoyed most from those I saw.

Holy Mary 'a pure joy and a delightful night out'

Theatre Reviews Thu, Nov 08, 2018

Playgoers are in for a treat next week when Eoin Colfer’s achingly funny comedy, Holy Mary, comes to the Town Hall on Tuesday, November 13, at 8pm.

A reunion of four stalled lives

Theatre Reviews Tue, Oct 16, 2018

THE THEME of the returned emigrant has driven landmark Irish plays such as John B Keane’s The Field, Brian Friel’s The Loves Of Cass Maguire, and Tom Murphy’s Conversations On A Homecoming.

The 'luminous, life affirming' songs of Padraig Stevens

Theatre Reviews Mon, Sep 03, 2018

ON SATURDAY evening I finally made it to one of the Ollie Jennings-run Druid Sessions in the Mick Lally Theatre which have been proving a big hit with gig-goers over the past few months. This was the fifth gig in the series and featured Padraig Stevens with Leo Moran.

Theatre reviews: Shelter, Furniture, Baoite, Wit

Theatre Reviews Wed, Jul 25, 2018

Shelter and Furniture (Druid Theatre Co, Mick Lally Theatre)

The life of Una Taaffe and a young man's struggle with MS

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 09, 2018

TWO LOCALLY-devised works in progress proved big hits with Tuesday’s Galway Theatre Festival audiences - Conor Geoghegan’s Invisible at Nuns Island and Elaine Mears’ Una at the Mick Lally Theatre. Both are already strong pieces of theatre and certainly whetted the appetite to see them in their finished forms.

An 'inventive' and 'charming' Little Prince

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 09, 2018

THE LAST time I saw Morgan Creative in action was with its imaginative staging of Crime and Punishment at Druid’s Mick Lally Theatre eight months ago. This week the company returned to the Mick Lally Theatre for the Galway Theatre Festival with another a literary classic - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s The Little Prince.

Theatre Review: The Hired Man

Theatre Reviews Wed, May 02, 2018

LAST NIGHT, Tuesday May 1, at the Black Box Theatre, Galway Musical Society presented the opening night of its terrific production of the musical, The Hired Man, based on Melvyn Bragg's stirring novel of Cumbrian rural and industrial working life in the first quarter of the 20th century.

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