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Written by renowned children’s author Mary Murphy with an original score by award-winning composer Tom Lane, the production will be presented in both English and Irish language versions.

Galway’s winter cultural calendar is set for a major highlight this January as Music for Galway announces details of its much-anticipated Midwinter Festival 2026, titled The Quartet Extends. Running from Friday, January 23, until Sunday, January 25, at the Town Hall Theatre, the festival promises a rich celebration of chamber music, creativity and collaboration, and, in the words of its organisers, “total indulgence”.

An Taibhdhearc, the National Irish Language Theatre, was honoured by the visit of President of Ireland, Catherine Connolly, to the opening night of its Christmas production, An Fathach Leithleasach (The Selfish Giant).

Running from December 2 to December 19, An Taibhdhearc presents An Fathach Leithleasach, a magical story of a grumpy Giant who banishes children from his beautiful garden, turning his world upside down. Will the grumpy giant ever open his heart and share his garden once again?

Based on the book by Pat McCabe

Blue Teapot Theatre Company presents a special archive exhibition celebrating fifteen years of their Performing Arts School for Culture Night.

The power of the human voice will be the core of Music for Galway’s 44th international concert season, titled Breathe, to begin next month.

I’ve got mixed feelings about sequels. I love The Godfather 2 and Terminator 2. I even love the Meg 2. But after persuading my son Cóilín to watch Final Destination 2 with me, I had to admit that he was right when he said it’s pretty much identical to the first one. We’re used to sequels to movies, but a sequel to a play is another thing entirely. And yet that’s exactly what I found myself pondering soon after Fergal McGrath commissioned me to write a new play for the Town Hall Theatre. I kept trying to talk myself out of writing Finding Sophie, because a new play is hard enough to get off the ground at the best of times without it also being a sequel. As I set out to explore the idea, I had no idea that director Andrew Flynn and Decadent Theatre Company would go on to produce it at the Town Hall Theatre.

On this day, 50 years ago, Druid Theatre Company opened their first production, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ in the Jesuit Hall on Sea Road. The following evening they staged “It’s a two foot six inches above the Ground World” and on the third night it was “The Loves of Cass Maguire”. It was an ambitious beginning.