Easter improv laughs with Whose Line Is It Anyway?

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

YOU HAVE to admire the audacity and foolhardiness of a group of comedians who perform a show with only a skeleton idea of what they will do, little in the way preparation, and relying on the goodwill and creativity of the audience.

It’s mad, but that’s what comedy improv is all about and as Galway audiences know so well, it’s what the Whose Line Is It Anyway? team do so brilliantly.

The Irishman who invented the submarine

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

IT IS a fact, but an often overlooked one, that an Irishman invented the submarine. John Philip Holland, from Co Clare, was a noviciate Christian Brother who, while in Dundalk, came up with the idea of the submergible craft.

Druid to reopen Chapel Lane theatre with The Gigli Concert

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THIS YEAR will finally see the reopening of the Druid theatre following an extensive refurbishment, while the company itself is set to give 335 performances in 26 venues in Ireland, Britain, the USA, Canada, and Australia.

‘MUR’ grupy Pink Floyd w Galway

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

GRUPA TEATRALNA Genesis serdecznie zaprasza polska publicznosc na musical Sciana Pink Floyd.

Mala cegielka w tym przedstawieniu jest Natalia, ktora niezmiernie cieszy sie z tej mozliwosci bycia czescia naszego widowiska i dlatego tez bardzo goraco w imieniu grupy zaprasza wszystkich rodakow na arcydzielo Rogera Watersa, zrezyserowane przez Elaine Enright ( tutaj w Galway).

Fregoli Theatre Co present three New Works

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

FREGOLI THEATRE Company are in Nuns Island theatre from tonight to Saturday with New Works, a trilogy of short plays from upcoming Galway-based writers.

Rare chance for Galway fans to see classic play Johnny Belinda

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

Compántas Lir bring their awardwinning production of the classic play Johnny Belinda to the Town Hall Theatre at the end of next week.

Community Skratch Games 2009 takes place next month

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THE COMMUNITY Skratch Games 2009 takes place in Galway from April 8 to 12, bringing together DJs from all around Ireland and Europe for a free festival of turntable manipulation.

Community Skratch is a non-profit group of DJs and producers dedicated to promoting the arts of hip hop and DJ culture through workshops/seminars, concerts and music releases.

Orbital’s Phil Hartnoll @ GPO

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

PHIL HARTNOLL, one half of Orbital alongside his brother Paul, will be spinning the decks at the GPO, Eglinton Street, tonight at 11pm.

Xklima @ Nuns Island

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

XKLIMA, THE Galway based electronica project of Mark Long and Ivan Murray, play the Nuns Island Theatre on Saturday April 4 at 8pm.

Fishgodeep at The Cellar

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

FISHGODEEP, THE Irish house godfathers, have announced a new residency at Deeper in The Cellar Bar and the first show is this weekend.

Fishgodeep’s Shane Johnson will join The Disconauts for their first Deeper show of 2009 this Saturday at 10.30pm. The Cork DJ/production partnership play to full houses no matter where they go and they have released music on all the world’s top house labels including Defected, i Records, Brique Rouge, and their own Go Deep imprint.

Skulduggery Pleasant and other treats at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

GALWAY CHILDREN and youth will be handsomely catered for at this year’s Cúirt Festival Of Literature from April 21 to 26, with a packed programme of events aimed at them.

The Skulduggery Pleasant books of Derek Landy, featuring the adventures of a skeleton detective and his young sidekick, are proving a hit with young readers and the critics. On Tuesday April 21 at 11am in the Town Hall Theatre, Derek Landy will read from his latest book Skulduggery Pleasant: The Faceless Ones.

Arden and D’Arcy to read at the Forge At Gort festival

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

JOHN ARDEN and Margaretta D’Arcy will treat theatre lovers to a ‘skeleton version’ of Arden’s 1960 play The Happy Haven, as part of the Forge At Gort Literary festival.

Can theatre improve your life?

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

HOW THEATRE Can Improve Your Everyday Life is the subject of a public talk that takes place tomorrow at 8pm in Bar No8, The Docks.

NUIG Chamber Orchestra concert

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THE NUI Galway Chamber Orchestra will give a Spring Concert this Sunday at 8pm in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church.

GMIT creative writing classes

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

A COURSE in creative writing for beginners will take place in the GMIT under the supervision of the poet and short story writer Susan Millar DuMars.

Cinema Review - Paul Blart: Mall Cop

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

An overweight, sugar dependent, and over-dutiful mall cop who suddenly comes face to face with actual criminals might seem like the formula for a really good comedy but Paul Blart: Mall Cop just falls a little short as there are just not enough chuckles.

Waveriders to get preview screening in Galway

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

WAVERIDERS, a new Irish film telling the untold story of surfing pioneers all linked to Ireland, will be released on April 3.

However Galway audiences will be among the first to see the film as there will be a preview screening in The Eye on Tuesday with a Q&A afterwards with two of the surfers featured in the film - Richard Fitzgerald and Gabe Davies.

Go 3D @ The Eye on Saturday

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

THE EYE Cinema in Wellpark will become the first cinema in the west of Ireland to offer audiences the ultimate 3D experience.

Bavaria Beach Party in Coyotes

Thu, Mar 26, 2009

COYOTES WILL throw a Bavaria Beach Party on Wednesday April 1 and Sunday 5 in association with Holland’s Bavaria Premium Beer.

There will be Bavaria promotions, giveaways of beach kits with tops, shorts, and towels to the first 100 people in on the night. For more information and for bookings contact [email protected] or

Galway to become Europe’s literary capital during Cúirt

Thu, Mar 19, 2009

FROM THE author of Captain Corelli’s Mandolin to the writer of Divorcing Jack, and from Canadian rappers to South African poets, the Cúirt International Festival of Literature has it all and it’s all in Galway city from April 21 to 26.

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