Drama summer camp at City Museum

Thu, Jul 03, 2014

A DRAMA summer camp for those aged between 11 and 14, takes place at the Galway City Museum.

No Way Out for ThereisBear!

Tue, Jun 24, 2014

“HELL IS other people”. It is one of the most famous quotes by French existentialist philosopher, playwright, and novelist Jean-Paul Sartre and it comes from his play Huis Clos.

Theatre review: Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce

Theatre Reviews Thu, Jun 19, 2014

WHILE DUBLINERS were observing Bloomsday by donning Edwardian costumes and retracing Leopold Bloom’s feted journey around the capital, in Galway the day saw the opening of Ann Marie Horan’s very enjoyable one-woman play Nora Barnacle – Signora Joyce.

Town Hall to stage My Brilliant Divorce

Thu, Jun 19, 2014

MY BRILLIANT Divorce, Geraldine Aron’s Olivier nominated West End hit, starring Tara Flynn, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre next week.

Galway Fringe Festival - a fortnight of events

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

MORE THAN 100 events will take place during the Galway’s Fringe Festival which runs from July 12 to 28, including a new play by Mick Donnellan, author of Gun Metal Grey.

Sparkplug rides again

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

LITTLE JOHN NEE romps into the Town Hall Theatre next week for an extended run with his much-acclaimed show Sparkplug Callaghan.

Revenant - ‘blackly comic and scary’

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

“VISCERAL, BLACKLY comic and genuinely scary,” is how The Irish Times has described Revenant, by Stewart Roche.

What The Ladybird Heard

Thu, Jun 12, 2014

TWO CRAFTY robbers, one tiny ladybird, and a whole farmyard of fun is in store for Galway families at the show What The Ladybird Heard in the Town Hall Theatre.

Nora Barnacle’s Galway years

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

NORA BARNACLE, famous as the liberated woman who stole James Joyce’s heart and who stood by him during numerous controversies, is the subject of a new play.

A family concert with The Specks

Thu, Jun 05, 2014

“IF YOUR little ones love fantastic, magical songs...then The Speks are the boys for you!” according to Newstalk’s Tom Dunne.

Mephisto return with Blackbird

Thu, May 29, 2014

AFTER ITS critically acclaimed production of Patricia Burke Brogan’s Eclipsed last year, Mephisto Theatre Company returns to the Town Hall Theatre with one of the most controversial plays of the last decade – Blackbird, by Scottish playwright David Harrower.

Celtic Flames at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, May 29, 2014

CELTIC FLAMES, the music, song and dance spectacular which has wowed audiences in Britain is coming to An Taibhdhearc.

Moving statues back in town

Thu, May 22, 2014

HIT PLAY, The Year of the Moving Statues, is coming to the Town Hall Theatre. A side-splitting satirical comedy by Kinvara playwright Gerry Conneely, it captures the madness and excitement of summer 1985 when the country’s grottoes began to move en masse.

The Importance of Being Wilde

Thu, May 22, 2014

MORE THAN a century after his death in Paris, Oscar Wilde’s work remains as popular as ever while the triumphs and tragedies of his life exert an enduring fascination.

Postscript’s ‘moving story’ of adoption

Thu, May 22, 2014

THE RECENT success of the movie Philomena highlighted the social and personal impact of adoption in Irish society in times past. This weekend, in the Mick Lally Theatre, Druid Lane, actor and playwright Noelle Brown’s play, Postscript, visits the same topic through the story of her own life.

Acting Shakespeare workshop

Thu, May 22, 2014

EVERY ASPECT of acting in a Shakespearean play will be explored in a new workshop from the acclaimed theatre director and teacher Max Hafler.

The Dirty Circus returns tomorrow

Thu, May 22, 2014

A NIGHT of burlesque and cabaret, and sumptuously saucy and decadent entertainment awaits when The Dirty Circus returns to the Róisín Dubh tomorrow at 9pm.

Performers on the night include Gemma Trimble, Scarlett Lace, Amilie Marvell, Donal Vaughan, and Dollface, with more to be announced. The show also has a new host in Galway comedian Steven Bennett, who will lead audiences through a night of naughtiness and glamour.

Don Wycherley on After Sarah Miles

Thu, May 15, 2014

THE MICK LALLY (Druid) Theatre is to host the acclaimed new play, After Sarah Miles, written and directed by Michael Hilliard Mulcahy and performed by Don Wycherley, of Bachelor’s Walk fame.

Mag Mell - a wild night of wild theatre

Thu, May 15, 2014

WHAT HAPPENS when comedian Jon Kenny, puppeteer Des Dillon, and virtuoso musicians Benny McCarthy and Conal Ó Gráda are let into the same room? Mag Mell.

JOLT: Volition – a theatrical selection box

Thu, May 08, 2014

ON SATURDAY May 17 at the Town Hall Theatre, eight short new theatre pieces will be presented by eight individual artists, as part of the theatre development project, Volition.

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