The Gruffalo is coming

Thu, Oct 30, 2014

TALL STORIES, the musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler award winning picture book, The Gruffalo, is coming to Galway.

Galway Musical Society open auditions

Thu, Oct 30, 2014

GALWAY MUSICAL Society will hold open auditions on Monday November 3 at 8pm for Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Makaronik at An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Oct 23, 2014

The Aisling Ghéar Theatre Company brings its production Makaronik , written by by Dave Duggan, to An Taibhdhearc on November 1 for one night only.

Singlehood @ Vodafone Comedy Carnival

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

AMONG THE many rib-tickling attractions at the Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway is comic theatre show Singlehood which brings raw and revealing stories of real life singletons to the stage to hilarious effect.

Say cheese! The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

BABORÓ IS currently in full swing, delighting and bewitching young and old alike, and it continues until this Sunday, October 19. Among the weekend highlights is The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy, from Australia’s Slingsby Theatre Company.

Little John - Stories from Macnas and eighties Galway

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

DESPITE THE late 1980s being among the economically gloomiest years in the history of the State, with emigration at alarmingly high levels, Galway managed to retain a vibrancy.

The Sound Of Music in Oranmore

Thu, Oct 16, 2014

THE SOUND Of Music will be performed by students of Calasanctius College Oranmore in the school’s Nano Nagle Hall.

Theatre review: Trickster in the Black Box

Theatre Reviews Tue, Oct 14, 2014

THERE WAS a time, and not so long ago, when disability arts was regarded as little more than a kind of occupational therapy, like basket-weaving, and viewed with polite, yet condescending indulgence.

Play by Love/Hate creator for the Linenhall

Fri, Oct 10, 2014

A play from the creator and writer of crime drama smash hit Love/Hate is coming to the Linenhall this month.

Win tickets to stage show of The Gruffalo

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

TALL STORIES, the musical stage adaptation of Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler award winning picture book, The Gruffalo, is coming to Galway.

Foróige drama returns tomorrow

Thu, Oct 09, 2014

FORÓIGE’S WEEKLY drama group returns for its new term tomorrow at the Galway City Youth Cafe, Fairgreen, opposite the coach station.

Theatre review: Defender Of The Faith

Theatre Reviews Wed, Oct 08, 2014

DECADENT THEATRE Company could hardly have timed its new staging of Stuart Carolan’s Defender Of The Faith any better, with its opening coming the night after the premiere of the latest series of Love/Hate, the TV show which Carolan created.

The Gombeens - reliving stories of ‘Little Brazil’

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

FOR A number of years Gort in south Galway, was known as ‘Little Brazil’ due to the numbers of Brazilians who were living there - and their stories are set to be retold in Stories Of A Yellow Town.

Auditions for Anything Goes

Thu, Oct 02, 2014

GALWAY MUSICAL Society celebrates its 30th anniversary in 2015 and will mark this milestone with a production of Cole Porter’s Anything Goes.

Othello and An Triail for schools

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

SHAKESPEARE’S TRAGIC drama of jealousy, racism, and betrayal, Othello, and the Máiréad Ní Ghráda’s An Triail are to be staged by Fíbín Theatre Company.

Human rights activist to give theatre workshop

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

HUMAN RIGHTS activist Sanjoy Ganguly is coming to Galway to conduct a scripting workshop, organised by ALâ Theatre, from Friday October 17 to 19 in the Diocesan Pastoral Centre, Árus De Brun, NewtownsmitH.

Auditions for Renmore Panto

Thu, Sep 25, 2014

AUDITIONS ARE taking place for Renmore’s 36th annual pantomime, which this year will be the all-time favourite Cinderella.

What happened to Bridgie Cleary?

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

ONE OF the most notorious crimes in Irish history was the burning to death of Bridget Cleary in 1895 in Tipperary, by her husband Michael.

Marie Mullen to open this year’s Autumn Gathering

Thu, Sep 18, 2014

ONE OF Ireland’s best known actors, and co-founder of the famous Druid Theatre, Marie Mullen, will officially open the 20th Lady Gregory Autumn Gathering in Gort on Friday week September 29.

Baboró - a world of pure imagination

Thu, Sep 11, 2014

FLYING COWS, spiralling elves, a boy made of cheese, a singing monkey, spicy feet, and the most spectacular inflatable space imaginable - it’s all at the children’s arts festival, Baboró.

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