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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.

ThereisBear! Theatre is proud to present an exciting new summer of theatre projects. The Galway theatre company will be producing Tony Kushner’s classic Angels in America for a national tour in May and June including a stint in Athlone Little Theatre from June 6-8. They are also offering a Junior and Leaving Cert Shakespeare Workshop to schools in order to enable students to prepare for questions on the plays for this year’s State exams.

NEW GALWAY theatre company ThereisBear! will stage the Pulitzer prize winning play Angels in America, by Tony Kushner, who also wrote the screenplay of Lincoln.

TWENTY YEARS after its first staging at the Abbey Theatre, Brian Friel’s classic drama Dancing at Lughnasa comes to the Town Hall next week in an acclaimed new production by Second Age Theatre Company.

Kildare group, Silken Thomas Players, were crowned All Ireland Champions last Saturday May 8 as the 2010 RTÉ All Ireland Drama Festival drew to a close. Adjudicator Tom Doherty awarded the top prize to the group whose energetic production of Alan Bennett’s school drama The History Boys swept audiences away with their masterful performances and slick scene changes. Producer Sean Judge picked up the award for Best Director, while the group also collected the awards for Best Set, Best Lighting, and Best Stage Management.

THE TOWN Hall will shortly host what promises to be one of the year’s theatre highlights when Brian Friel’s most recent play The Home Place arrives in a major new production jointly presented by Belfast’s Lyric and Letterkenny’s An Grianan theatres.