New play-reading group devoted to women playwrights

Thu, Sep 28, 2017

GALWAY SCRIPTS & Scribes is a new play-reading group which, starting next Monday evening at the Commercial Boat Club in Woodquay, will host weekly sessions exploring works by women playwrights.

Footsbarn fly over the Cuckoo’s Nest

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

YOU HAVE to go back to 1998 for Footsbarn Theatre Company’s last visit to Galway, so its long-overdue return to the city is a cause for much rejoicing. From Sunday October 1 to Wednesday 4 at The Black Box, Footsbarn will present its freewheeling, richly imaginative, interpretation of Ken Kesey’s classic novel, One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest.

Get sizzling with The Dirty Circus

Thu, Sep 21, 2017

BETTY ROSE Royal will make her Irish debut at September Sizzle, this month's show from The Dirty Circus, and another top quality night of burlesque and cabaret sauce and sexiness is assured.

Tara Breathnach brings Molly back to Galway

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

AFTER SUCCESSFUL performances in the Galway Theatre Festival, Inis Oírr, and at the Bloomsday celebrations in the Ibsen Museum, Oslo, Tara Breathnach’s Molly returns to Galway.

Conal Gallen - How's Your Father?

Thu, Sep 14, 2017

HOW’S YOUR Father? the new comedy play by comedian Conal Gallen and his son Rory, comes to the the Town Hall Theatre Galway on Saturday September 23 at 8pm.

Jean Butler to dance for Music for Galway

Mon, Sep 11, 2017

DANCER JEAN Butler and cellist Neil Martin are set to engage in what The New Yorker called "an intense, affectionate, sometimes flirtatious musical conversation" when they perform their show, This Is An Irish Dance, in Galway.

Baboró children's festival announces 2017 programme of events

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

THERE WAS a lively turn out at Galway City Museum’s The Kitchen Café on Monday evening for the programme launch of the Baboró International Arts Festival for Children, which takes place from October 16 to 22.

The Shape Of Things - theatre for tots

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

THE SHAPE Of Things, an imaginative and interactive show for tiny theatre buffs aged between six months and two years, and combining puppetry, object theatre, music and sound, returns to Galway this month.

Homecomings for Humanity Dick

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

HUMANITY DICK: A Tale of Beasts and Bullets, the sell-out hit of last year’s Galway Fringe Festival, returns to Galway city and the Clifden Arts Festival – each a special homecoming in its own right.

Galway Actors Workshop new autumn courses

Thu, Sep 07, 2017

GALWEGIANS INTERESTED in talking up acting, or actors looking to refresh their skills, can check out the new series of autumn classes from the Galway Actor's Workshop.

To Hell in a Handbag

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Coming to the Town Hall next Wednesday, September 6, is wickedly funny comedy To Hell in a Handbag, written, and performed by Helen Norton and Jonathan White and exploring two minor characters from The Importance of Being Earnest – Miss Prism and Canon Chasuble. A governess and a country rector; models of Victorian propriety in public, but in private? This is the play behind the play: a tale of blackmail, false identity, and money that offers a subversively funny new take on a theatrical classic.

Winter is coming

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Winter is coming to London and Dublin this September and October as Landmark Productions and Galway International Arts Festival hit the road with their co-production Woyzeck in Winter, which wowed audiences at this year’s Galway International Arts Festival.

Breaking the Fourth Wall Productions presents Nine Months

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Have things changed for women in Ireland?
Nine Months is a kaleidoscope of women's true stories about pregnancy and childcare in Ireland. This series of montages uses black humour to make light of the bleak depressing realities, while retaining their gravity. The audience will experience both laughter and discomfort simultaneously.

"How’s Your Father?"

Thu, Aug 31, 2017

Father and son team Conal and Rory Gallen have written probably their funniest comedy play to date, "How's Your Father?" is a non-stop, laugh a minute riot of craic, confusion, and constant laughter.

Conal and Rory are recognised nationwide as two of the most talented writers in Irish comedy today. More than 80,000 people have seen their first two plays, A Bit on The Side and A Bit On The Sunny Side, and now "How's Your Father?" looks set to be yet another spectacular success.

Disney's Aladdin jr - The Musical

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

FOLLOWING PREVIOUS family summer musicals like Seussical, The Sound of Music, and Peter Pan, Brian and Seán Power’s Twin Productions is continuing this tradition at the Town Hall Theatre with Disney's Aladdin jr - The Musical, based on the hit movie and Broadway smash.

Boys! Boys! Boys!

Thu, Aug 17, 2017

THE DIRTY Circus is well known as a great night of burlesque and cabaret, with the star attraction being the stunningly sexy divas of all body types, but what about a night featuring just the men, performing what is known as 'Boylesque'?

El-Funoun - acclaimed Palestinian dance troupe visit Galway

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

THE INTERNATIONALLY acclaimed El-Funoun Palestinian Popular Dance Troupe is coming to Galway for a two week residency which will culminate in a public performance of two of their works at NUI Galway.

Just Guff - falling out of love with Fianna Fáil

Thu, Aug 10, 2017

WHAT IS it like to be a dedicated member of a political party, working your way up through the ranks, believing in all the party stands for, and then, to see that certainty and belief shattered?

World premiere of new Little John show

Thu, Aug 03, 2017

THE WORLD premiere of Radio Rosario, the new show by writer, actor, theatre-maker, musician, entertainer and, in the words of Irish Theatre Magazine, “a unique talent”, Little John Nee, opens in The Mick Lally Theatre next month.

Week two GIAF 17 play reviews

Theatre Reviews Thu, Aug 03, 2017

DRUID'S GIAF offering this year was Mark O’Rowe’s unsettling 2003 play Crestfall, directed by Annabelle Comyn. Designer Aedin Cosgrove sets the action in a corrugated red box resembling a shipping container where three female prisoner-protagonists, wearing plain smocks, relate their stories.

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