Emmerdale star goes Drinking In America

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

EMMERDALE AND Fair City actor Liam O'Brien will play 12 separate roles in one play when Limerick's Bottom Dog Theatre Company stages Eric Bogosian's 1986 play Drinking In America.

Uoo, mee, weee!

Thu, Jan 25, 2018

UOO, MEE, Weee! - the title may be taken from nonsense talk, but this show is significant. It is the first production by the Baboró festival, in conjunction with Branar Téatar de Pháistí, and premieres at the new Wide Eyes festival.

Hope and Fury at Town Hall studio

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

TWO ESTRANGED sisters, on the run from each other and their respective pasts, are forced to come fact to face - with each other and their demons - after their mother's death. And why is the local grocery boy executing her will?

Arts festival's Ballyturk wows New York critics

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The US premiere of the Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival co-production of Ballyturk, written by Enda Walsh, and starring Mikel Murfi, Tadhg Murphy and Olwen Fouéré, has won rave reviews from New York critics.

Humanity Dick - back home in Ballynahinch Castle

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

HUMANITY DICK, a hit show of the 2016 Galway Fringe Festival about the colourful life and times of Galway MP, humanitarian, and serial duelist Richard Martin, is about to be performed in Martin's own home - Ballynahinch Castle.

Arts festival and Druid up for Irish Times Theatre Awards

Thu, Jan 18, 2018

The Galway International Arts Festival and Druid Theatre Company are strong contenders at this year's Irish Times Theatre Awards, with both being nominated in a variety of categories.

Original Script Night at Loughrea Library

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE SEAMUS O’Kelly Players, 'An Original Script Night', featuring four new comedy plays written by members of the group, will take place in the Loughrea Library on Friday January 19 at 7.30pm.

Galway Actors Workshop - new spring courses

Thu, Jan 11, 2018

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop will hold a series of new classes for the New Year for beginners and experienced, covering all aspects of acting for both theatre and television.

Druid announces two new appointments to board

Thu, Jan 04, 2018

The Board of Druid recently announced two exciting additions to the Board, recently retired Irish senior diplomat and trailblazer Anne Anderson and business doyenne and innovator Helen Ryan.

Theatre 2018 coming attractions

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

As 2017 draws to a close, thoughts turn to the New Year and Galway theatre goers have much to look forward to from both home-based and visiting companies and theatre-makers.

Keith Barry brings 'Magic Madhouse' to the Radisson Athlone

Thu, Dec 28, 2017

Internationally acclaimed mentalist/hypnotist, Keith Barry is bringing his brand new live show - Magic Madhouse - to the Radisson Blu Hotel, Athlone on Saturday, January 20.

Gilín Sneachta agus an Seachtar Scallywag

Thu, Dec 14, 2017

GILÍN SNEACHTA agus an Seachtar Scallywag, this year's An Taibhdhearc pantomime, written by Maeve Ingoldsby, and starring Tara Breathnach is currently running at the Middle Street based theatre.

'It ends like a good Christmas play should'

Thu, Dec 07, 2017

MIDDLETOWN, THE beguiling comedy-drama by American author Will Eno wil be staged in the Town Hall Studio from tonight, tomorrow, and Saturday, by the Galway Actors Workshop.

Corrib Dance Academy to celebrate 20th birthday

Thu, Dec 07, 2017

CORRIB DANCE Academy will celebrate its 20th anniversary with a series of gala shows at the Town Hall Theatre next weekend.

Galway Musical Society auditions for The Hired Man

Thu, Dec 07, 2017

THE GALWAY Musical Society holds auditions for The Hired Man this Saturday in The Connaght Hotel at 2pm. All are welcome to try for parts or to be involved in the chorus.

Baboró to host Wide Eyes festival for babies and young children

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

More than 100 arts professionals from 15 European countries will arrive in Galway this coming February for Wide Eyes, a four day festival of theatre and dance shows for babies and young children.

A Christmas Carol at The Mick Lally Theatre

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

ONE OF the greatest stories ever written about Christmas, and also one of the most influential, reinterpreted, and best loved, is Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol, a new production of which will be staged in Galway.

Cinderella is this year's Limerick panto

Thu, Nov 30, 2017

MAGIC, ROMANCE, a feisty heroine, a handsome prince, dubious sisters in need of a beauty blogger boot camp, chart hits, and hilarity will combine in Cinderella, this year's SPAR Panto at the University Concert Hall, Limerick.

Snámh na Saoirse

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

AN TAIBHDHEARC is set to host Snámh na Saoirse, an imaginative play by Róisín Sheehy, which fuses dance, drama, and music. This is Sheehy’s debut work for theatre and is a poetic re-telling of a tragic drowning which occurred off the Great Blasket Island in 1909.

The Nutcracker - a family favourite

Thu, Nov 23, 2017

THE NUTCRACKER is a family and Christmas favourite, and a special performance of this show, designed to sweep children into the fantasy world of Clara and Fritz, and their enemy the Mouse King, comes to the Town Hall Theatre.

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