A world of choral music at St Nicholas’

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

CLASSICAL, FOLK, and sacred music from across Europe will be performed by Cork choir CanTúr tomorrow at 8pm in the Augustinian Church.

Conversations on a Homecoming

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

TOM MURPHY’S Conversations on a Homecoming, will be staged by Kiltimagh’s Clann Machua Drama Group in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday.

A young person’s view on teenage reality

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

LOTUS: A Play in Four Acts, written, produced, and directed by Rosa Jones, and featuring young Galway actors, will be performed in the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

Written by 17-year-old Rosa, and featuring a cast aged between 17 and 19, it deals with the growing pains, social pressures, loneliness, and anxiety felt by teenagers today. It is set one feverish night after a disillusioned 17-year-old Sam, played by Siofra Brogan, has her drink spiked.

Paintings of wine and women

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ARTIST RUTH Cadden, recently featured in the Galway Advertiser with her article on her ‘Classical women in Penney’s underwear’ paintings, has an exhibition about to open.

Town Hall to screen award winning films

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

THE OSCAR winning Whiplash, which saw JK Simmons take the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor, is to be screened in the Town Hall Theatre.

Rossini opera @ The Eye

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

ROSSINI’S OPERA, La Donna Del Lago, will be broadcast live from the Metropolitan Opera, New York, to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark, this Saturday at 5pm.

Starring the bel canto superstars, American mezzo-soprano Joyce DiDonato and Peruvian tenor Juan Diego Flórez, Le Donna Del Lago is set in the Scottish Highlands and based on a novel by Sir Walter Scott. Elena (DiDonato) is pursued relentlessly by the king (Flórez), who travels in disguise, leading to much confusion and a dramatic love triangle. The period-costumes are by Paul Curran and the conductor is Michele Mariotti.

Behind The Beautiful Forevers

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

BEHIND THE Beautiful Forevers, based on the work of Pulitzer Prize-winner Katherine Boo, will be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema, Wellpark.

Starring Meera Syal, and directed by Rufus Norris, this production by the National Theatre London, is an adaptation of Boo’s book, which was written after she spent three years in Annawadi, a neighbourhood in Mumbai, India.

Finland’s leading comic to play Galway

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

FINLAND MIGHT not be known as a stand-up comedy hotspot, but in Ismo Leikola, they can boast one of the world’s very finest comedians.

A night of cello quintets - tonight

Mon, Mar 09, 2015

CELLO QUINTETS by Mozart, Schubert, and Boccherini will be performed by French cellist Raphaël Merlin and the RTÉ ConTempo Quartet this evening at 8pm in the Aula Maxima, NUI Galway.

Cinema review: Kill the Messenger

Films Reviews Mon, Mar 09, 2015

KILL THE Messenger is the remarkable story of how a reporter from the tiny San Jose Mercury News managed to scoop The Washington Post and the New York Times to one the CIA’s biggest controversies of the 1990s.

Wine, women, and song!

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE WORD ‘bespectacled’ is usually preceded or followed by the term ‘mild-mannered’, but there is nothing ‘mild-mannered’ about the bespectacled trio of wild women in sequinned mini-skirts that go by name The Nualas.

Amazing Apples to launch new single in Róisín Dubh

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE AMAZING Apples will launch ‘Lullaby’, the first single from their forthcoming debut album, when they play the Róisín Dubh on Friday March 13 at 9pm.

Paul Durcan and Joseph O’Neill to read at Cúirt

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

The poets Paul Durcan and John Montague, as well as the Booker nominated novelist Joseph O’Neill will read at the Cúirt International Festival of Literature which will run from April 21 to 27 in venues across Galway city and county.

Album review: Bob Marley

Music Reviews Thu, Mar 05, 2015

ROBERT NESTA Marley would have celebrated his 70th birthday this year had he not been cruelly called back to Zion in 1981 at the tragically early age of 36.

Grimm delights with Galway Community Circus and Fidget Feet

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE FOLK and fairy tales gathered by the Grimm brothers have entranced readers and audiences for more than 100 years and the recent movie adaptation of Broadway hit, Into The Woods, attests to the stories’ enduring appeal.

New exhibition from Angeline Cooke

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

ANGELINE COOKE, a founder member of the Irish Kidney Association, will hold an exhibition of her paintings, Looking West, in the Renzo Café, Eyre Street.

Dylan Moran to play Galway’s Comedy Carnival

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

DYLAN MORAN, one of Ireland’s leading comedians, and the star of Black Books, Shaun of the Dead, and Calvary, brings his new stand up show Off The Hook, to the 2015 Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

A theatrical side to the St Patrick’s Day Parade

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THERE WILL be a strong theatrical feel to this year’s Galway City St Patrick’s Day Parade, with theatre performers, costumes designers, and community groups involved in the preparations.

A Russian family and a greedy mayor

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

A FATHER, his second wife, and his son live together, all harbouring resentment towards each other. Then there is the mayor, who is determined to take their land. This is Russian film Leviathan, which will be shown in the Town Hall Theatre by the Galway Film Society this Sunday at 8pm. Directed by Andrey Zvyaginstev, it won Best Screenplay at Cannes 2014.