A Few Good Men from Keegan Theatre
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
WASHINGTON’S KEEGAN Theatre touch down in the Town Hall next week with its much acclaimed staging of Aaron Sorkin’s military courtroom drama A Few Good Men.
Read more ...Musical Theatre Training courses
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
TWO COURSES in musical theatre training, under the tuition of Australian performer Claire Healy, take place in The Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, in September.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus comes to Salthill
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
MISS BURLESQUE Ireland and an award winning Cirque De Soleil performer will take to the stage of The Dirty Circus this Saturday from 9pm.
Read more ...Can you catch The Gingerbreadman?
Thu, Aug 14, 2014
“RUN, RUN as fast as you can, you can’t catch me I’m the Gingerbreadman.” You might not be able to catch him, but you will be able to see this mischievous fellow.
Read more ...Galway writer's play to be staged in New York
Wed, Aug 13, 2014
THE MCGOWAN Trilogy, a series of one-act plays by the award-winning Galway writer Seamus Scanlon will be performed as part of New York’s Annual Festival of Irish Theatre.
Read more ...Galway’s Fíbín to stage new play at Dublin Theatre Festival
Tue, Aug 12, 2014
GALWAY’S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will make its Dublin Theatre Festival debut next month with its production of Paul Mercier’s new play Réiltín.
Read more ...Olwen Fouéré wins award at Edinburgh fringe
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
A THEATRE show produced by, and which premiered at the Galway International Arts Festival, has been impressing audiences at Edinburgh, where it also scooped an award.
Read more ...An Taibhdhearc seeks new writers
Thu, Aug 07, 2014
AN TAIBHDHEARC is seeking new writers for the stage through its Walter Macken Award which has prize money of €1,000.
Read more ...A Few Good Men
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
YOU CAN’T handle the truth!” For years after the 1992 film version, Jack Nicholson’s declaration during A Few Good Men’s climatic courtroom scene became one of the catch-phrases of the decade.
Read more ...Druid start rehearsals on new Tom Murphy play
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
DRUID BEGAN rehearsals this week on a new Tom Murphy play, Brigit, and on his 1985 classic Bailegangaire, both of which will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre in September.
Read more ...A night of burlesque and peepshow
Thu, Jul 31, 2014
A FIERY display of burlesque dancing, sword swallowing, and knife throwing is in store for Galway when The Pretty Things Peepshow hits town.
Read more ...Chapatti, iD, Star of the Sea, Midsummer
Thu, Jul 24, 2014
CHRISTIAN O’REILLY’S Chapatti, jointly produced by Northlight Theatre Company and GIAF, is a real crowd-pleaser of a play.
Read more ...New play gets public reading today
Tue, Jul 22, 2014
A BOY Called Nedd, a new play by Emily Gillmor Murphy, will be given a public reading by NUI Galway drama students in the Druid theatre this afternoon.
Read more ...A feast of theatre @ Galway Fringe Festival
Thu, Jul 17, 2014
FROM EPIC, ancient, voyages to the ‘girls night out’, from stories of bag ladies to the return of Christ, the Galway Fringe Festival theatre strand has it all.
Read more ...Aindrias de Staic - The Man from Moogaga
Thu, Jul 17, 2014
THERE WAS The Man from UNCLE, later there was ‘the man from Del Monte’, but right now there is Aindrias de Staic, and he is The Man from Moogaga.
Read more ...Galway burlesque artist nominated for award
Thu, Jul 17, 2014
MISS TURKISH Delight is getting set for Saturday’s Miss Burlesque Ireland competition in the Button Factory in Dublin - the only performer from Galway to reach the final.
Read more ...Theatre review: Ballyturk
Theatre Reviews Tue, Jul 15, 2014
“BEAUTIFUL, HILARIOUS, dark as death.” So tweeted actress Olwen Fouéré after seeing the opening of Enda Walsh’s new play Ballyturk, which got the Galway International Arts Festival off to a flying start at the Black Box yesterday evening.
Read more ...Deep - when acid house arrived in Ireland
Thu, Jul 10, 2014
IN 1988 the Acid House explosion erupted across Britain and soon spilled over into Ireland, and the Sweat night in Sir Henry’s in Cork was Ireland’s first centre for ravers and house music events.
Read more ...Mick Donnellan - tuning in to Radio Luxembourg
Thu, Jul 10, 2014
PLAYWRIGHT AND novelist Mick Donnellan is not a man to rest on his laurels. Having enjoyed popular and critical acclaim for Gun Metal Grey, Sunday Morning Coming Down, and Shortcut To Hallelujah, he continues to press forward.
Read more ...The Dirty Circus and a Galway Film Fleadh night
Thu, Jul 03, 2014
THE DIRTY Circus, Galway’s burlesque and cabaret event, returns to the Róisín Dubh on Wednesday July 8 and as that is also the day the Galway Film Fleadh opens and fleadh guests will be attending the show.
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