A sixties take on A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

MISTAKEN IDENTITIES, fairy folk playing pranks, romance, and mischief, and on this occasion, hippies and free love, all combine in Shakespeare’s wonderful A Midsummer Night’s Dream.

Galway to host Irish premier of A Tale of Two Cities

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TO MARK the bicentenary of the birth of Charles Dickens, the Galway Musical Society will present the Irish premiere of the Broadway musical A Tale of Two Cities.

The Irish premiere night will be Wednesday March 21 at 8pm and there will be a wine and food reception from 7pm. The play will run until Saturday March 24.

SBB Ina Shuí is back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

EARLY EVENING on Irish TV in the early 1980s. A shot of a bus rolling down a road in Connemara soundtracked by Horslips’ ‘Sword Of Light’. SBB Ina Shuí was starting.

Cut from the opening credits to the studio and there was Sean Bán Breathnach with a shock of electrified sandy hair - looking like a skinny Mick Hucknall - sitting among the audience, ag caint as Gaelige about what would be coming up on his show that evening, and, if he could get away with it, throwing in the odd risqué - for the time - joke as well.

Duo Vocis - Naughton and Costello are back

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

DUO VOCIS, the popular vocal team of Seán Costello and Frank Naughton, bring their show, From Broadway to La Scala, back to the Town Hall Theatre for one night only.

Patrician Musical Society reaches the big sixty

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PATRICIAN Musical Society will celebrate its 60th anniversary this year with a staging of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s much loved Showboat.

New Irish film The Pier to be screened @ The Eye

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE PIER, a new Irish film, which has already won praise at film festivals in the Czech Republic, Israel, Greece, and Georgia, will be shown at The Eye this week.

Movie table quiz @ Kelly’s

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

GALWAY MOVIE buffs take note - Kelly’s Official Movie Table Quiz takes place next Monday at 8pm.

Curfew @ The Cellar

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

CURFEW, THE new DJ night in The Cellar Bar, Eglinton Street, returns this Saturday with DJs Yoseph and Fuz on the decks.

Gemma Hayes to play Róisín Dubh

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TIPPERARY SINGER-songwriter Gemma Hayes is coming to the Róisín Dubh on Saturday at 8pm as part of her Acoustic Tour of Ireland.

Squarehead for Strange Brew

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

WHEN DUBLIN trio Squarehead released their debut album Yeah Nothing on Richter Collective last autumn, it was the announcement that something special had arrived.

Earlier slot An Taobh Tuathail

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

AN TAOBH Tuathail, the underground music programme presented by Cian Ó Ciobháin on RTÉ Raidió na Gaeltachta, has moved to a new earlier time slot of 9pm.

Cork indie @ Citóg

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

TWO CORK bands, Daphne In The Attic and Agitate The Gravel, and Galway’s Trampoline Scene will take to the stage at Citóg in The Cellar Bar tomorrow from 10pm.

Screen acting course for adults

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

The acting for film and television course returns to Galway and will take place in The Harbour Hotel from Tuesday February 15 to Thursday 17 from 7pm to 11pm.

The course will teach participants how to correctly slate to camera, match continuity between shots, cold-read for films, audition for commercials, be your own agent, use 10 x 8 headshots, network with casting directors, and compile a show reel.

A touch of Debussy in the night

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THIS YEAR marks the 150th birthday of the marvellous French composer Claude Debussy and two of his works will be on the programme for the next Music For Galway concert.

Máirtín O’Connor to play trad for children

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

A FIRST-RATE line-up of trad musicians will take to the stage of the St Patrick’s Bandhall on Sundays for the first in a new series of Adventure’s In Music’s ‘Gigs for Families’.

Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE 2012 Over The Edge Poetry Book Showcase takes place on Friday February 10 at 8pm at The Kitchen in the Galway City Museum.

Exploring the unintended monuments

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

NINETY NINE Percent for Art, an exhibition featuring new work by Carol Anne Connolly and Jim Ricks, opens in The Dock Shed at the Galway Docks next week.

Forge at Gort literary festival returns in March

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

THE FORGE at Gort literary festival, organised by the Western Writers’ Centre, returns on Friday March 30 and Saturday 31.

Get Up, Stand Up @ Garvey’s

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 9.30pm.

The show is open to the public and comedians. Every week there is a lively crowd and a load of up and coming comedians performing. Each comedian is allowed seven to eight minutes for his/her set.

When all hell was let loose

Thu, Feb 02, 2012

OVER THE last 12 months or so, the number of books available on our website has grown to 5.5 million. I say this because it underlines how drastically the whole business of bookselling has changed with the now not so new revolution in technology.

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