Swing into the Town Hall with Fishamble

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

INTERNATIONAL HIT play, Swing, a beguiling comedy about dance, music and love hits the Town Hall Theatre on Friday April 1 at 8pm. Produced by Dublin’s Fishamble Theatre Co, it won the Bewley’s Little Gem Award at the 2013 Dublin Fringe Festival, and has been performed in New York, Paris, Edinburgh, and New Zealand, and is scheduled to go to Australia after its current Irish tour.

Under Milk Wood - with an all male cast

Thu, Mar 24, 2016

UNDER MILK Wood, Dylan Thomas’s celebrated radio play of 1954, comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Tuesday March 29 at 8pm in a production for the stage by Blood In The Alley.

Galway Theatre Festival - stretching the concept of theatre

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

THE LAUNCH for this year’s Galway Theatre Festival took place on Monday at a lively gathering in BiteClub in Upper Abbeygate Street. A large and enthusiastic crowd gathered to mark the occasion, and between sips of prosecco and tasty canapés, the assembled guests pored over their programmes and amiably chatted about the many attractions on offer.

Future doctors to sing songs of war and freedom

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

MORE THAN 40 medical students in NUI Galway will perform music and song from the first 20 years of the 20th century in a concert entitled War, Freedom, Love and Loss, in the Aula Maxima, on campus, on Thursday March 24 at 7pm.

The Hen Night Epiphany - as Gaeilge

Wed, Mar 16, 2016

FIVE WOMEN on a hen night in the hills of Connemara - it should be a wild night of drink, craic, and naughty behaviour, instead the group discovers an unhappy bride-to-be, while friendships are sorely tested.

GAA drama Face the Short Kick Out at the Town Hall

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

THERE ARE few, if any, families in Ireland, who do not have some connection with the GAA, either on, or off, the field. Even those with no involvement whatsoever are fascinated by what makes it tick.

Youth Ballet West to stage Coppelia

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

YOUTH BALLET West is to stage the classic ballet Coppelia in the Town Hall Theatre on Saturday April 5 and Sunday 6, but there are fears this could be the company's final show.

Curtain opens tonight on feast of drama in Claregalway

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

It’s that time of year again when Claregalway Leisure Centre is transformed into a theatre for the 32nd Annual Claregalway Festival of Drama. This year the festival runs from tonight Thursday March 10th to Friday March 18 inclusive.

2016 Galway Theatre Festival launched next week

Thu, Mar 10, 2016

THE 2016 Galway Theatre Festival programme will be launched on Monday March 14 at 6pm in Biteclub, Upper Abbeygate Street. As well details of plays at the festival, there will also be DJs and dancing.

Record breaking win as DruidShakespeare scoops five Irish Times Theatre Awards

Mon, Mar 07, 2016

DRUID THEATRE Company's epic DruidShakespeare production has won a record five awards, including the Best Production award, at the prestigious Irish Times Irish Theatre Awards, which took place in Dublin last night.

John B Keane's The Matchmaker for Town Hall

Thu, Mar 03, 2016

TWO OF Ireland's best loved actors, Mary McEvoy and comedian Jon Kenny, are coming to the Town Hall Theatre to star in John B Keane's much loved comedy, The Matchmaker.

Theatre review: The Dead School

Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 25, 2016

HAVING ENJOYED a sell-out run at last year’s Galway International Arts Festival, Andrew Flynn’s fine production of Pat McCabe’s The Dead School gets a welcome revival this week at the Town Hall.

It’s a long way to go for a cup tea

Tue, Feb 23, 2016

AC/DC said 'It's a long way to the top if you wanna rock'n'roll', but Galway actor and theatre maker John Rogers has discovered in his new show how there is a long way to go if you want a cup of tea.

Theatre review: The Great Push

Theatre Reviews Mon, Feb 22, 2016

THE BATTLE of Loos, which raged from late September to mid-October 1915, was one of the bloodiest clashes of the First World War. The British Army lost some 60,000 men in the engagement, with little to show for it when the guns fell silent.

The resurrection of Pádraic Ó Conaire

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

FOR THE first time in more than a decade, Pádraic Ó Conaire – the Resurrection!, Diarmuid de Faoite's award winning bilingual biography of the Galway short story writer, will be performed on the stage.

Theatre Review: Caucasian Chalk Circle

Theatre Reviews Thu, Feb 18, 2016

IT HAS been many years since Bertolt Brecht’s The Caucasian Chalk Circle has been seen in Galway so this new production, by NUIG and Core Theatre College, is very welcome – all the more so as director Max Hafler and his young cast do a great job.

The Kings Of The Kilburn High Road

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

THE KINGS Of The Kilburn Highroad, Jimmy Murphy's funny, yet deeply poignant study of the Irish emigrant experience in Britain, starring Phelim Drew, and directed by Padraic McIntyre, is coming to Galway.

Galway Actors Workshop - new classes

Thu, Feb 18, 2016

THE GALWAY Actors Workshop has added two new evening courses, for both beginners and more advanced adult acting students, which begin towards the end of this month.

‘A bold, imaginative, staging’

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ONE OF the very best shows at last year’s Galway International Arts Festival was Andrew Flynn’s brilliant large-cast staging of Pat McCabe’s The Dead School. The production was presented by the combined talents of Galway Youth Theatre and Galway Community Theatre, and Flynn has now re-assembled the same cast for a revival by Decadent Theatre Company at the Town Hall Theatre.

Gerry Conneely in The Great Push

Thu, Feb 11, 2016

ON THE morning of September 25 1915, 75,000 British soldiers emerged from their trenches on the Western Front to begin what was then the biggest battle in British history, the Battle of Loos. It would also be the British army’s bloodiest day of the war so far.

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