Town Hall to stage world premiere of Mairéad Folan’s Luke
Tue, Mar 22, 2022
THE WORLD premiere of Luke, written by Mairéad Folan, directed by Diarmuid de Faoite,and with dramaturgy by Little John Nee, takes place in the Town Hall Theatre from Thursday March 31 to Saturday April 2.
Read more ...Virginia Woolf’s To the Lighthouse at the Town Hall
Wed, Mar 16, 2022
VIRGINA WOOLF’S To The Lighthouse, adapted by Marina Carr, directed by Annabelle Comyn, and starring Derbhle Crotty is to be screened at the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Irish Student Drama Awards Festival 2022
Tue, Mar 15, 2022
THE IRISH Student Drama Awards festival returns to Galway this year from March 28 to April 8. Hosted by NUIG Dramsoc, colleges from across Ireland will submit their very best theatre productions for this two week competition.
Read more ...Fibín welcomes you to Baile Beag Mór
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
A WORLD premiere by artistic director Philip Doherty will open Fíbín’s first season in residence in Ireland’s national Irish language theatre, An Taibhdhearc.
Read more ...Free screening of Sonya Kelly’s Once Upon a Bridge
Thu, Mar 10, 2022
DRUID THEATRE Company will give a free ‘encore screening’ of Sonya Kelly’s acclaimed Once Upon a Bridge from Wednesday March 16 to Friday 18.
Read more ...Aristophanes’ The Frogs to be staged at NUIG
Mon, Mar 07, 2022
ATHENS IS at war and it is not winning. The best playwrights in Greece are dead. Morale in the city is low. The time is right for a hero to step forward.
Read more ...‘We took the risk of creating something new’
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
SOMETHING UNPRECEDENTED and utterly original will happen in Galway this month - a wild and thrilling fusion of live theatre, cinema, radio, rock concert, and the Irish language. This is Fiach from Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc.
Read more ...International Women’s Day show at Town Hall Theatre
Thu, Mar 03, 2022
COURAGE, HOPE & Laughter is the title of a show taking place in the Town Hall Theatre to mark International Women’s Day on Tuesday March 8.
Read more ...Who killed Michael Collins, and why?
Mon, Feb 28, 2022
AUGUST 22 2022 will mark the centenary of Béal na Bláth and the death of one of the most significant figures in modern Irish history - Michael Collins.
Read more ...Fiach - a wild ride into the underworld
Mon, Feb 21, 2022
WHAT A time to be Galway theatre company Fíbín sa Taibhdhearc! Not only does it have a new show coming next month, but its artistic director has been getting rave reviews internationally for his debut film.
Read more ...Also For Roaring - experimental theatre at Black Box
Thu, Feb 10, 2022
ALSO FOR Roaring - an experimental production “about nonsense as much as sense”, about breaking “away from any kind of cohesion”, is coming to the Black Box Theatre.
Read more ...Steve Wickham in Breath at the Town Hall
Thu, Jan 27, 2022
THE WATERBOYS’ Steve Wickham, and actor Karl Quinn, will explore our recent experiences of life during a pandemic, with the ‘music play’, Breath.
Read more ...Waterboys’ Steve Wickham at the Town Hall
Tue, Jan 11, 2022
THE WATERBOY’S Steve Wickham will join Carpet Theatre actor Karl Quinn in a new ‘music play’ at the Town Hall Theatre - Breath.
Read more ...Galway Youth Theatre to stage Animal Farm
Tue, Dec 07, 2021
A REBELLION has taken place at Manor Farm. The animals have overthrown their human masters and assumed control.
Read more ...Fibín to mark centenary of the Treaty with outdoor performance
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
ON DECEMBER 6 1921, the Anglo-Irish Treaty was signed in London by Irish republicans and members of the British Government.
Read more ...Gol - a show about the mná caointe
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
AN IRISH community and its culture are under siege. Ancient traditions and customs are dying out. The public act of keening is disappearing, and edicts for new ways of doing things are being handed down.
Read more ...An Taibhdhearc Christmas panto returns
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
AFTER TWO years of closure due to the Covid crisis, An Taibhdhearc will reopen its doors with a Christmas panto - Jeacaí agus an Fathach Mór Dána, an Irish language version of Jack and the Beanstalk.
Read more ...Katie O’Halloran is Marie Mullen Bursary award recipient for 2021-22
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
KATIE O'HALLORAN, a Dublin-based interdisciplinary theatre director and creator, was recently chosen as this year’s recipient of Druid’s Marie Mullen Bursary award.
Read more ...KATS return with supper theatre
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
KATS, THE Knocknacarra Amateur Theatre Society is back and will stage two comedy one act plays in the Galway Bay Hotel from December 1 to 3.
Read more ...Applications open for Theatre57 Nuns’ Island residencies
Thu, Nov 25, 2021
THEATRE57 is seeking applications for residencies at its pilot artist-led theatre hub in the Nuns’ Island Theatre between January and March 2022.
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