The Way Back Home
Thu, May 07, 2015
A BOY discovers a single-propeller aeroplane in his closet, which amazingly allows him fly into space, where he meets an alien who needs a friend and some help.
Read more ...Women buried alive in a tomb
Thu, May 07, 2015
CONDEMNED TO die with their emperor in his tomb, the concubines who have not produced any male children ponder their fate. This is the setting for Bryony Lavery’s play More Light.
Read more ...‘The play is about power’ - Bernard Field discusses The Early Hours
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
FIVE YEARS after its premiere, Bernard Field’s tense psycho-drama, The Early Hours, returns to the Town Hall Studio next week in a new production from Field’s own Haw Theatre Company.
Read more ...DruidShakespeare begins next week
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
DRUIDSHAKESPEARE, the epic cycle of plays where the Galway company takes on, not an Irish playwright, but the greatest English dramatist of all time, starts next week.
Read more ...The Tale Of Ancient Lights
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
THE TALE Of The Ancient Lights, an award-winning one-man show fusing circus, dance, magic, echnology, and Asian art, is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...A night of ballet and jazz dance
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
THE REGINA Rogers School of Ballet is to perform what promises to be dazzling display ballet and jazz dance at the Town Hall Theatre from Wednesday May 6 to Friday 8, at 8pm.
Read more ...NoRopes to stage Dario Fo play
Thu, Apr 30, 2015
THE OPEN Couple by Italian writer Dario Fo and his wife Franca Rame, will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio by new Galway theatre company NoRopes.
Read more ...An all day and night theatre experience
Thu, Apr 23, 2015
A NEW theatre show, which takes place over the course of 24 hours, runs at the Nuns Island Theatre as part of the Galway Theatre Festival 2015.
Read more ...God Bless The Child at Town Hall
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
THE SHORT stories of Cork born author Frank O’Connor are universally regarded as being classics of their kind. Now, for the first time, three of those funniest stories are being brought together as the play God Bless The Child.
Read more ...Reinventing the heroines of Irish myth
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
DRAWING INSPIRATION from the great Irish epic, the Táin Bo Cuailgne, Women In Arms is a show about Irish myths from the point of view of the women involved.
Read more ...New Tom Stoppard play @ The Eye
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
TOM STOPPARD’s new play The Hard Problem is running in the National Theatre London, but Galway can see it via a live broadcast to The Eye Cinema.
Read more ...Reach for the Stars with Club Shine
Thu, Apr 16, 2015
CLUB SHINE, the community youth variety club based in Shantalla, will present its 2015 show, Reach for the Stars, in the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...The Games People Play - the play for the ‘negative-equity generation’
Tue, Apr 14, 2015
THE GAMES People Play, the award winning play for the “negative-equity generation” comes to the Town Hall Theatre tomorrow at 8pm. Winner of Best New Play at The Irish Times Theatre Awards, it stars Aonghus Óg McAnally and Fair City’s Lorna Quinn.
Read more ...Only Our Own at An Taibhdhearc
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
FRESH FROM a critically-acclaimed run in London, Ann Henning Jocelyn’s new play, Only Our Own comes to An Taibhdhearc next week, for two performances only.
Read more ...Hourglass Theatre Company’s Loose Change
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
GALWAY COMPANY Hourglass Theatre grace the Town Hall studio next week with a trilogy of new one act plays by local writer Ian Patterson, under the title Loose Change.
Read more ...Galway Theatre Festival programme launch tonight
Thu, Apr 09, 2015
THE GALWAY Theatre Festival holds its Programme Launch this evening at 6.30pm in Biteclub, Electric Garden, Abbeygate Street, with the great Little John Nee as guest speaker.
Read more ...The Assassination of Brian Boru
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
THE BATTLE of Clontarf is both a landmark event in Irish history and a fabled story passed down the generations, right up to our present day, 1,001 years after its occurrence. The famous battle provides the backdrop for an acclaimed new play, The Assassination of Brian Boru, by Lauren-Shannon Jones, which comes to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday April 13 at 8pm.
Read more ...SBB Ina Shuí sa Town Hall
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
EVENING TIME on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A psychedelic animation of red lips against a green background, all soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.
Read more ...Noël Coward’s Private Lives in Oranmore
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
NOËL COWARD’S now classic 1930 comedy of manners, Private Lives, is being staged by Bualadh Bos - Oranmore Music & Drama Group next week.
Read more ...International conference on intercultural theatre and performance
Thu, Apr 02, 2015
NUI Galway will host a major international conference on ‘Interculturalism and Performance Now: New Directions?’ from 10-11 April. The conference will feature leading scholars in intercultural theatre and performance studies from Australia, Canada, the United States, the UK and Turkey.
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