The adventures of two little shapes

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

THE SHAPE Of Things, Branar Teatar do Pháistí and Starcatchers' new show for those aged from six months to two years has its Irish premiere at the 2016 Babaró International Children's Festival.

Carnevil - enter if you dare...

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

ARE YOU feeling brave? Are you feeling nervous? Are you looking for something to test the limits of your courage, and are you prepared to look deep into the abyss? Are you prepared for the abyss to…look back?

Gerry Conneely's Shakespeare in Connemara

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

OLDER READERS will remember those halcyon days in the 1990s when lunchtime theatre was part of daily life in Galway. It was part of the streetscape itself as merry mischief-makers like The Flying Pigs and The Mad Susans took to the thoroughfares to coax the unwary into the back of The King’s Head.

Return of The Pillowman

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

DECADENT THEATRE Company’s acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman returns to the Town Hall Theatre in a welcome revival that launches a second national tour for the play.

Spanking good fun at The Dirty Circus

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

IT'S NAUGHTY but nice, sexy and saucy, tasteful rather than filthy and depraved. It is Galway burlesque and cabaret night The Dirty Circus, and it kickstarts this year's Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Comedy with a female perspective marks debut of Cáca Dána

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

A NEW Galway theatre company, Cáca Dána, takes a bow in the Town Hall studio next month with All The World’s A Cage, an original one-act comedy, with a distinctly female perspective, devised and written by the company.

Theatre review: Disco Pigs (Town Hall)

Tue, Sep 27, 2016

TWENTY YEARS to the day after its premiere, Enda Walsh’s iconic play Disco Pigs arrived at the Town Hall this week in a new production jointly staged by Reading Rep and Nick Thompson Productions from London. The show was helmed by Cathal Cleary, who was formerly based in Galway, and is now making his way successfully as an up and coming director in London.

'Life is a series of aftershocks'

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

WINNER OF a ‘Lustrum’ Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Orla Murphy’s acclaimed play, Remember To Breathe, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a staging by Murphy’s own Figure 8 Productions.

Druid's The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Theatre Reviews Wed, Sep 21, 2016

LAST WEEK, Druid’s production of Helen and I concluded with the sound of rain pouring down outside the kitchen where the play’s action takes place. The Beauty Queen of Leenane opens with the same sound but where the rain in Helen and I signified release, in Beauty Queen it’s symptomatic of misery and confinement.

Disco Pigs - Enda Walsh's debut play turns 20

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

WHILE NEXT week sees Druid open its 20th anniversary revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 also saw the premiere of another iconic Irish play which launched a stellar writing career; Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs.

Honor Heffernan - The Whistling Girl

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

DOROTHY PARKER was famed for her wit, which could be as brilliant as it was nasty, but it is often forgotten that she was a civil rights activist, a supporter of Martin Luther King, and chronicler of the Spanish Civil War.

Auditions for the Renmore Panto

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

AUDITIONS FOR Little Red Riding Hood, the 38th annual Renmore pantomime, to be directed by award-winning Brian and Seán Power, begin this weekend.

Siblings picking at the scabs of old psychic wounds

Theatre Reviews Wed, Sep 14, 2016

A DESDERVED standing ovation greeted the conclusion of Helen and I, Meadhbh McHugh’s debut play for Druid at the Mick Lally Theatre, which surely announces the arrival of a fine new Irish writer.

Baboró children's festival line-up unveiled

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

AUTUMN IS upon us once more, season of mist and mellow fruitfulness...and Baboró. Details of this year’s festival were unveiled at a packed reception in Il Vicolo on Monday evening and October will see Baboró embark on a fantastical journey of flying suitcases, dancing feet, vanishing queens, wild adventures, curious giants and toe-tapping tunes.

James Connolly show for Culture Night

Thu, Sep 08, 2016

IRELAND'S GREATEST jazz singer Mary Coughlan, and veteran activist and writer Margaretta D'Arcy, will celebrate the life of Republican socialist, and patriot James Connolly in a major event for Galway Culture Night 2016.

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.

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.

'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.

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.

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.

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