The perils of getting Glutened

Thu, Apr 05, 2018

AMONG THE many sparkling offerings in this year’s Galway Theatre Festival is Glutened, a new play written and performed by Caitríona Ní Chonaola, which shines a funny and insightful light on coeliac disease.

Galway Theatre Festival unveils line-up

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE PROGRAMME for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival, which runs from May 4 to 12, was revealed on Monday evening at a thronged launch in Biteclub on Abbeygate Street. Once again festival director Máiréad Ní Chróinín and her team have assembled a top-notch line-up of shows and ancillary events, guaranteed to entertain, surprise, delight and inspire.

Tóraíocht - love, monsters and Gaeilge

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

FÍBÍN, THE Galway based Irish language theatre company is celebrating its 15th anniversary with its largest production to date, a nationwide tour, in April, of Tóraíocht, directed by Mikel Murfi.

April Foolin’ with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 29, 2018

THE LIGHTS will be low, but the spirits are sure to be high, as leading burlesque performers hit the stage of the Róisín Dubh for another night of naughtiness, decadence, and glamour at The Dirty Circus.

Shows for Galway's tiniest theatre goers

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

PUPPETRY, MUSIC, shapes, sounds, tactile objects, and interaction, all aimed at Galway's tiniest theatre goers, will take place in March as Branar Téatar do Pháistí and The Mick Lally Theatre host two children's shows this month.

Sister Act - don that habit and sing

Thu, Mar 01, 2018

SISTER ACT, the much loved hit comedy musical film from 1992 starring Whoopi Goldberg, has since gone on to become a popular stage production, and Galway's Twin Productions is bringing it to the Town Hall Theatre.

Sex, guns, and break-ups

Tue, Feb 27, 2018

AFTER IT'S award-winning debut in last year’s Galway Fringe Festival, garnering the ‘Best Emerging Artists’ award, Eva’s Echo Theatre Company presented it's second production last week, The Way It Is, by American playwright Donna Hoke.

The Cripple of Inishmaan in Kinvara

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

IN 1934, on Inis Meáin in the Aran Islands, there is great excitement when news arrives that a Hollywood film is being made on the neighbouring island of Inis Mór.

Peppa Pig’s Adventure comes to Galway

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

PEPPA PIG is on a big adventure, so big it's taking her all the way to the Black Box and it has also led to an extra performance being added due to public demand.

John B Keane's Big Maggie in Loughrea

Thu, Feb 22, 2018

MAGGIE POLPIN is a mother, a widow, and a shop owner. Not only does she have these three roles to contend with, she must also battle against the expectations, morals, and judgments of her small town neighbours.

A Russian take on Martin McDonagh's west of Ireland

Tue, Feb 20, 2018

LAST WEEKEND, An Taibhdhearc hosted one of Russia’s premier theatre companies, U Mosta, from Perm, which presented two plays - Nikolai Gogol’s Marriage and Martin McDonagh’s The Cripple of Inishmaan.

Eva’s Echo explore toxic relationships in The Way It Is

Thu, Feb 15, 2018

Fledgling Galway theatre company Eva’s Echo, this month presents its second production, The Way It Is, by American playwright Donna Hoke - a taut two-hander about the painful unravelling of a relationship.

Twelfth Night - Shakespeare's gender fluid comedy

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

“IF MUSIC be the food of love, play on, Give me excess of it; that surfeiting, the appetite may sicken, and so die.” Spoken by Duke Orsino, this is the most famous line from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Gerry Conneely relives the Battle Of Loos

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

ON SEPTEMBER 25 1915, 75,000 British soldiers rose from their trenches to attack German lines on Loos-en-Gohelle. By the end of the day, some 10,240 would be dead, with the six British divisions in action suffering more casualties per unit than on the first day of the Somme.

The Dirty Circus' 'No Pants' party

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

IT'S CALLED the 'No Pants' party, but this is not an invitation to turn up with no trousers on to the next Dirty Circus at the Róisín Dubh. It just means you had better have a good excuse to justify whatever will be covering your legs on the night!

Max Hafler's Michael Chekhov technique workshops

Thu, Feb 08, 2018

ACTOR'S WORKSHOPS centring on the Michael Chekhov technique will be taught by the actor, director, and teacher Max Hafler, in NUI Galway, during weekends in March, April, and May.

'It’s about what human beings can be, and can be for each other'

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

DECADENT THEATRE Company is set to revisit one of its most acclaimed productions, Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me, in a new staging, directed by Andrew Flynn, at the Town Hall Theatre.

If We Got Some More Cocaine I Could Show You How I Love You

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

MIKEY AND CASEY are stuck on a roof, hoping the gardaí will stop circling the house. Yet, 20 feet up in the air they find some truths cannot be climbed down from.

GUMS to stage The Producers at Black Box

Thu, Feb 01, 2018

"SPRINGTIME FOR Hitler, a gay romp with Adolf and Eva at Berchtesgaden...Wow!". "How could this happen? I was so careful. I picked the wrong play, the wrong director, the wrong cast. Where did I go right?"

Galway Actors’ Workshop get NSFW

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

HAVING SEEN out 2017 with a very fine production of Will Eno’s Middletown, Sarah O’Toole’s Galway Actors’ Workshop ushers in 2018 next month with the Irish premiere of Lucy Kirkwood’s NSFW.

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