Compántas Lir bring The Memory of Water to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

CARNMORE/CLAREGALWAY group, Compántas Lir grace the stage of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe this month with its production of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water. Galway audiences will have two opportunities to see this production, Sunday February 22 and again in March, FROM Wednesday 25-Friday 27.

Stockings, sex, and the Nazi threat

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

CABARET, THE classic musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, and immortalised on screen in the 1973 film starring Liza Minelli, will be staged by NUIG’s Galway University Musical Society in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 10 to Saturday 14 at 8pm.

The Dirty Circus Dirty Love Weekend party

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE DIRTY Circus rolls into the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 13 at 9pm for its Valentine’s party of burlesque, cabaret, and all things ‘naughty but nice’.

Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is being staged by Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and will be broadcast live to Galway.

The Bard gets the Druid treatment in 2015

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

DRUID THEATRE is internationally acclaimed for its stagings of classic Irish drama, but 2015 sees the companyturn its attention to England’s genius - William Shakespeare.

Little John Nee’s The Galway Years

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

FOLLOWING THE sell-out success of The Galway Years in October, Little John Nee revives the show in the Town Hall Thetre studio from Monday February 2 to Saturday 7.

The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE INTERNATIONAL ‘freakshow’ that is The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow comes to Galway for a night of mind bending comedy stunts that will leave you in stitches one minute and your jaw on the floor the next.

Comedy theatre at Galway Community College

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

TOM STOPPARD’S The Real Inspector Hound and Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy will be the inaugural plays that open the Galway Community College’s new auditorium on Wednesday February 4 and Thursday 5 at 8pm.

Glenamaddy Players to stage Stolen Child

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

STOLEN CHILD, the story of a young woman’s journey to find her natural mother, will be staged by the Glenamaddy Players at Glenamaddy Town Hall Theatre in February.

THEATREclub - shedding light on Heroin

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONE OF Dublin’s brightest and best-regarded young companies, THEATREclub is bringing its much-acclaimed, award-winning play, Heroin, to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 2 at 8pm.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn returns to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

DUE TO popular demand, Aisteoirí an Spidéil’s production of Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, which has played to full houses in An Taibhdhearc, returns for performances throughout the city and county.

Small Size Day

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

TWO SHOWS will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Saturday January 31 as part of Small Size Day - a theatre initiative for young children.

Beowulf: The Blockbuster

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

AN EARLY highlight of the Town Hall’s spring season comes around next week with Bryan Burroughs’ hugely acclaimed solo show Beowulf: The Blockbuster.

Treasure Island on stage and live on screen

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic story of murder, money, and mutiny is currently running in the National Theatre, London, in a new staging by Bryony Lavery.

See The Merry Widow @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

THE MERRY Widow, the much loved Franz Lehár opera, first staged in 1905, is enjoying a new production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, which Galway audiences can see.

Core Theatre College spring courses

Thu, Jan 15, 2015

CORE THEATRE College has announced a new acting course which will run from March 3 to May 10, and enrolment is taking place now.

Revenge, romance, and renaissance drama

Wed, Jan 14, 2015

DOOMED ROMANCE, violence, revenge, and misogyny erupt into force in The Duchess Of Malfi, one of the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama, yet one that is rarely performed in Ireland.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn sa Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

LÉIREOIDH AISTEOIRÍ an Spidéil Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn sa Taibhdhearc ar an Satharn seo, 10 Eanáir. Is leagan Gaeilge a rinne Mícheál Ó Conghaile de The Kings of Kilburn High Road le Jimmy Murphy, an dráma seo a bhfuil an imirce agus torthaí na himirce mar chroíthéamaí ann.

Plays and playwrights sought for theatre festival

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

THE GALWAY Theatre Festival is seeking applications for its 2015 festival which will take place from Friday May 1 to Saturday 9.

Horrible Histories’ Groovy Greeks are coming to Galway

Thu, Jan 08, 2015

STAGECOACH DRAMA and theatre school spring term starts this Saturday with classes taking place in St Mary’s College. Registration for new pupils is also taking place.

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