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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

THREE HOSTAGES, an Irishman, an Englishman, and an American, imprisoned in a cell in the Middle East ,is the setting for Frank McGuinness’s Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me.

The Women Among The Ice

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

THREE WOMEN leave their husbands in a scientific base in Alaska and huddled together re-account their final visions of what was once considered home.

Arthur Millar play at The Eye

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

ARTHUR MILLAR’S A View From The Bridge is being staged at the National Theatre London and will be broadcast live to the Eye Cinema.

Actors sought for play

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

NOROPES, A new Galway based theatre company, is seeking actors for its production of The Open Couple by Dario Fo and Franca Rame.

Compantas Lir return to An Taibhdhearc

Fri, Mar 20, 2015

Following a successful run in February, Carnmore/Claregalway group, Compántas Lir returns with their production of Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of Water. This will be performed in Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe from 25th-27th of March.

Palestinian dancers to perform at city dance festival

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

MEMBERS OF Ramallah’s El Funoun Dance Troupe, who work in refugee camps, villages, and cities throughout Palestine, will perform at the fourth Galway Dance Days festival.

Galway Actors Workshop beginner course

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

GALWAY ACTORS Workshop will hold another of its popular Introduction to Acting courses, starting March 23.

The classes take place on Mondays from 6.30pm to 8.30pm in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, and run for 12 weeks. It is aimed at beginners and those who have not acted for some time. Classes will feature games, exercises, and improvisations focused on developing self confidence and stage confidence.

A St Patrick’s Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 12, 2015

THE DIRTY CIRCUS returns for another night of burlesque, comedy, music, and cabaret, but a definite green tinge, at the Róisín Dubh on Monday March 16 at 9pm.

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