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This year’s Dean Crowe panto, the wonderful Beauty and the Beast is a magical story that will have all the boys and girls totally enchanted and splitting their sides laughing.

Rehearsals are coming to a close for this year’s Dean Crowe panto, the wonderful Beauty and the Beast - and everyone is so excited because this magical story will have all the boys and girls and all the mammies and daddies totally enchanted and splitting their sides laughing.

Athlone Little Theatre is taking to the All-Ireland Festival circuit again with not just one but two plays.

As rehearsals for the Dean Crowe Theatre’s new year pantomime, Treasure Island, enter their final stages, the cast, under the watchful glare of Kori Kilduff, director, and Claudia O’Sullivan, choreographer, are busy “crossing their eyes and dotting their teas” for what promises to be a rip-roaring romp.

Anticipation has reached fever pitch as the cast and crew of Athlone Little Theatre’s production of Two by Jim Cartwright ready themselves for the national One Act Drama Finals in Ennis this Sunday afternoon, December 4. This is the Little Theatre’s very first appearance in the All-Ireland One Act Finals, and how fitting it is that this historic event occurs at the end of the theatre’s 75th anniversary year.

Athlone Little Theatre have scored a major triumph in their 75th anniversary year, as Ollie Hegarty’s production of Two, by Jim Cartwright, has just reached the all-Ireland One Act Drama finals. The finals will take place in Ennis in early December, and Two is being hotly tipped for further major awards.

Gripping drama, hilarious dialogue, and scary supernatural elements are just some of the rich mix on offer at Athlone Little Theatre towards the end of this month, as the group launches one of the first ever amateur productions of Conor McPherson’s The Seafarer at the theatre in St Mary’s Place. The play opens on Friday February 25.

You’ve been drenched; you’ve been flooded; you’ve been kicked, battered, and depressed by the economic shenanigans. Truly, there has not been much to smile about lately. And Christmas is just around the corner! What you need is a good dose of laughter, administered freely by Athlone Little Theatre’s next show. Don’t miss this great antidote to the winter blues that runs from November 25 to December 1 at the Little Theatre in St Mary’s Place, Athlone. This is their second show in their Diamond Jubilee year and features three one act comedies from the pens of David Tristram, Deirdre Kinahan, and Jim Cartwright.

Athlone Little Theatre is leaving their home of nearly 50 years to take their mission for comedy to the streets of Athlone.

Can a play be both hilarious and scary? That is the question which will be answered for Little Theatre audiences when Bernard Farrell’s timeless classic, I Do Not Like Thee, Doctor Fell opens at the theatre in Athlone on Sunday February 28.