The Shakespeare Sessions - the Bard for the modern age

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

SHAKESPEARE'S ROMEO and Juliet, King Lear, and Hamlet, will each be presented at the Town Hall Theatre, across two days, by the Cyclone Rep theatre-in-education company.

A Seminar like no other from SamePage

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

FOUR STUDENTS enter a seminar room and come fact to face with the harshest critique of their lives. They can wither under the storm, or band together and face it head on. Which will they do?

Embodied Voice workshop

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

AS PART of his Theatre Artist in Resident year in the Town Hall Theatre, Brú Theatre's James Riordan will curate a host of theatre workshops with European practitioners throughout 2020.

Macnas presents Gilgamesh

Thu, Mar 12, 2020

Macnas announce its most ambitious project to date – the world’s first ever hero’s journey – the legend of Gilgamesh. The epic will be staged as four individual events throughout the year, comissioned by Galway 2020 for the European Captial of Culture celebrations.

Decadent returns with Marina Carr's The Mai

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

AFTER 17 years together, Robert, husband of a teacher known as The Mai, leaves her. Her response is to decorate a dream house in the hope he will one day return. Four years later, he does.

Royal Moscow Ballet to perform Sleeping Beauty

Thu, Mar 05, 2020

SLEEPING BEAUTY, one of the finest and most loved of all ballets, will be performed in Galway this weekend by The Royal Moscow Ballet, and feature soloists from the world renowned Bolshoi Ballet.

Opera and theatre at the Pálás

Thu, Feb 27, 2020

AGRIPPINA LIVE from New York, The Cherry Orchard live from the Black Box Theatre, and an exhibition of Lucien Freud will all be seen on the big screens at the Pálás Cinema.

Tintown - looking at the IRA in the forties

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

THE IRA in the 1940s was an organisation in search of a purpose, which made some horrendous decisions, such as the Coventry bombing in 1939 or the actions of those elements who collaborated with the Nazis.

Go Beyond Therapy with the Ray Leonard Players

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

BEYOND THERAPY, the 1982 comedy play by the American writer Christopher Durang, will be performed in Galway city and Clifden by the Ray Leonard Players, a new theatre company named after the west of Ireland director, producer, and mentor.

See Galway's latest one-act plays

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

THEATRE ROOM Galway is a monthly showcase of original one-act plays that are written, directed and performed by local theatre makers of all stripes, from professional to amateur.

See the latest one-act plays

Thu, Feb 20, 2020

THEATRE ROOM Galway is a monthly showcase of original one-act plays that are written, directed and performed by local theatre makers of all stripes, from professional to amateur.

Druid presents Anton Chekhov’s The Cherry Orchard In a version by Tom Murphy

Mon, Feb 10, 2020

Times are changing.
An old way of life is dying out.

Dance inspired by the lives of refugees and people in direct provision

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

ASYLUM SEEKERS and Irish people will join forces for a dance show, coming to Galway, which has been inspired by the lives of refugees and people in direct provision.

Life and death through the eyes of a child

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

A 10-year-old girl struggles to come to terms with her younger brother’s diagnosis, leading her to the big questions in life, and an exploration of loss, hope, and being a big sister.

Dirty Dusting - hit comedy comes to the Town Hall

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

IS IT funny? Yes. Is it crude? Yes. If you love Mrs Browns Boys, then meet the show that can rival it - a group of 70-something cleaners who set up a phone sex service.

A Valentine's special from The Dirty Circus

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

THE DIRTY Circus will hold its first show of 2020 on St Valentine's Day - Friday February 14 - with a cast of leading Irish burlesque and cabaret performers taking to the stage of the Roisin Dubh.

KATS auditions

Thu, Feb 06, 2020

KNOCKNACARRA AMATEUR Theatre Society is holding auditions for its spring production in Joyce's Meeting Rooms, Knocknacarra from 8pm to 9pm.

An Taibhdhearc to host world premiere of Song Of The Yellow Bittern as Gaeilge

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

SONG OF The Yellow Bittern, a love story and a ghost story, set against the background of an 1828 paternity lawsuit by a Protestant woman against a Catholic priest, comes to An Taibhdhearc in a new Irish language version.

Irish debut for The New Half a Sixpence Musical

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

A MUSICAL from George Stiles, Anthony Drew, and Julian Fellowes, the team best known for adapting the classic Disney film Mary Poppins for the stage, will be performed in the Black Box in February.

Looking at the life of Walter Macken

Thu, Jan 30, 2020

WALTER MACKEN was one of the finest writers to emerge from the west of Ireland in the 20th century, and one of the most popular, but in recent decades his work has fallen into neglect.

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