Cabaret show on love and divorce
Thu, Sep 08, 2016
KATIE AND Conor are 20 and in the first flush of new love. Frank and Maggie are middle aged and in the throes of divorce. Two different worlds, but both in the same restaurant.
Read more ...Galway Actors' Workshop autumn classes
Thu, Sep 08, 2016
THE GALWAY Actor's Workshop is offering classes to a variety of levels, from those who wanted to 'give acting a try' to professional actors wishing to learn new skills.
Read more ...'They are all embroiled with each other'
Thu, Sep 01, 2016
IT IS always something of a special occasion when Druid unveils a new writer, and all the more so when that writer comes from the west of Ireland. So there is much excitement about Helen and I, the debut play by Tuam's Meadhbh McHugh, which receives its world premiere at the Mick Lally Theatre on Tuesday September 13.
Read more ...Through a Glass Onion - peeling back the layers of the John Lennon story
Thu, Sep 01, 2016
LENNON: THROUGH A Glass Onion, the show examining and celebrating the life and music of John Lennon, which has enjoyed worldwide success, comes to Galway’s Black Box Theatre on Wednesday, September 14 at 8pm.
Read more ...Theatre Review: Tape (Fregoli, Nun’s Island Theatre)
Theatre Reviews Wed, Aug 31, 2016
FREGOLI THEATRE has enjoyed a fine 2016 with its successful tour of Jarlath Tivnan’s Pleasure Ground, followed by this latest production, a strong staging of American author Stephen Belber’s intense three-hander, Tape.
Read more ...Pat Kinevane’s thrilling theatrical threesome
Thu, Aug 18, 2016
Writer/actor Pat Kinevane visits the Town Hall next week with a triple-bill of his hugely acclaimed, award-winning solo shows, Silent, Underneath, and Forgotten.
Read more ...Fregoli go on Tape at Nun’s Island
Thu, Aug 18, 2016
Coming soon to Nun’s Island Theatre, Fregoli present Tape by American playwright Stephen Belber, a play which the company previously presented at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe in 2008 where it received a five star review.
Read more ...PADDY – the musical drama - tours Ireland this September
Thu, Aug 18, 2016
PADDY – a powerful and action-packed musical/drama – starring internationally-renowned singer Tommy Fleming comes to the Black Box Theatre Galway from September 1 to September 4.
Read more ...Vikings v the Irish in epic Russian drama
Thu, Aug 11, 2016
GONDLA, AN epic tale of strife, poetry and revenge, between an Irish prince and the native Icelandic nobles, and set in ninth century Iceland, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Friday August 19 and Saturday 20 at 8pm.
Read more ...Chekhov workshop with Max Hafler
Thu, Aug 04, 2016
MICHAEL CHEKHOV believed the job of the actor was to make the intangible, tangible, and to reveal the invisible to the audience, and his technique continues to be taught to actors today.
Read more ...Summer acting courses for adults
Thu, Jul 28, 2016
THE GALWAY Actors Workshop hosts three short summer acting courses, covering a variety of areas of drama, each running for six weeks in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill.
Read more ...Ghostly Galway tales in Fringe show Haunted
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
GHOSTLY TALES, and stories of the supernatural, which have been gathered from around Galway, will be told in Haunted, a new play from new theatre company Ferocious Composure, which makes its bow at the Galway Fringe Festival this weekend.
Read more ...Druid to stage world premiere of Helen and I
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
RED ROCK star Cathy Belton is among the cast appearing in Druid Theatre Company's world premiere of Meadhbh McHugh's play Helen and I, in September.
Read more ...Death Do Us Part - Burlesque on the edge
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
KNIFE-THROWING, sword-swallowing, and whip-cracking, featuring performers who are "all blonde bombshell and man mountain muscles" - it can only be The Death Do Us Part Danger Show.
Read more ...The Irish pub as existential prison
Thu, Jul 21, 2016
JEAN PAUL Sartre's famous view that "Hell is other people", captured the difficulties of coexistence, and how an individual can feel alienated from those around him/her.
Read more ...GIAF16 Theatre Review: Our Ladies of Perpetual Succour
Theatre Reviews Wed, Jul 20, 2016
OUR LADIES of Perpetual Succour is The National Theatre of Scotland's second visit to the Galway International Arts Festival and a raucously entertaining affair it is too.
Read more ...Dirty Circus - the best of Galway burlesque
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
HARLEY SPARKS, Steven Sharpe, and The Mighty Boobs will be among the performers showing just how raunchy, racy, saucy, and downright brilliant Galway burlesque is at the next installment of The Dirty Circus.
Read more ...Theatre reviews: GIAF 16 week one
Theatre Reviews Thu, Jul 14, 2016
DYSTOPIAS, ISOLATION, characters on the edge are just some of the recurrent themes that announce themselves in Eoghan O’Tuairisc’s Fornocht do Chonaic/Naked I Saw You at An Taibhdhearc, Enda Walsh’s Arlington [a love story] in Leisureland, and Druid’s new staging of Waiting for Godot.
Read more ...New farce starring Edwin Sammon @ Galway Fringe
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
A COMPULSIVE liar asks his eejit of a friend to pose as his psychiatrist for a couple's counselling session, because what could go wrong if you were to try that, right?
Read more ...Blue Wine - one act comedy for the Fringe
Thu, Jul 14, 2016
THREE HOUSEMATES, one as eccentric as the other, are desperately trying to pawn off a mysterious artifact, only to find themselves in a series of bizarre situations caused by that very same artifact.
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