The Tales Of Hoffmann @ The Eye

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE TALES Of Hoffmann is to receive a spectacular production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, and be screened live via satellite to The Eye Cinema.

Nineties dance @ Stock Exchange

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

DJ MICKY MAC of 2FM will be in The Stock Exchange Bar tomorrow to launch the Shop Street venue’s new clubnight - Old School Insomnia.

Puzzle clubnight comes to Kelly’s

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE PUZZLE clubnight has returned to Kelly’s, Bridge Street, with DJs Zanmato, Zenji, Mooney, and Wendy dropping drum’n’bass and jungle this Saturday from 10pm.

DJ Sotofett @ Factory

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

NORWEGIAN DJ Sotofett will make his Irish debut when he spins the decks this Saturday at both the Bierhaus and the Epoch clubnight in Factory, Abbeygate Street.

Rob Wade returns to the stage

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

ROB WADE, the Galway singer-songwriter is back in action and returns to live and musical duties with a gig in Monroe’s Live this Saturday night.

Baldonnel Singers charity concert

Thu, Jan 29, 2015

THE BALDONNEL Singers will perform a fundraising concert, in aid of Domestic Violence Response, in St Nicholas’ Collegiate Church, on Saturday February 7 at 8pm.

St Vincent to play arts festival Big Top

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

ST VINCENT, one of the most singular contemporary pop and rock musicians, a woman Pitchfork has declared “one of the past decade’s most distinct and innovative guitarists”, will play the Galway International Arts Festival Big Top.

Are you ready for The Darkness?

Wed, Jan 28, 2015

UNITARDS, FLAMBOYANCE, falsettos, and gargantuan guitar riffs will explode onto the stage of Monroe’s Live when The Darkness play the Dominick Street venue on Friday March 13 at 8pm.

Reduced Shakespeare Company’s Complete History of Comedy

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

THEY HAVE taken on the world of Shakespeare, but now the legendary trio are finally tackling the subject they were born to reduce. From the high-brow to the low, The Complete History of Comedy (abridged) covers comedy from Aristophanes to Shakespeare to Charlie Chaplin to Chris Rock.

Citóg returns with three gigs in February

Tue, Jan 27, 2015

ATMOSPHERIC INDIE-ROCK, blues with a touch of grunge, and passionate folk will be heard in the Róisín Dubh on Wednesdays in February during that month’s instalment of the Citóg nights.

The Coronas play Róisín Dubh in February

Mon, Jan 26, 2015

IRELAND’S FAVOURITE pop-rock band The Coronas have just announced that they will play the Róisín Dubh on Thursday February 12 at 8pm and tickets go on sale on Friday at 9am.

Cinema review: The Gambler

Films Reviews Mon, Jan 26, 2015

AN UNNECESSARY and boring remake halts what has been a sensational month of film in which each passing week has produced, if not a great movie, at least one worth going to see.

‘It’s all about political corruption’

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THE FIRST ‘homegrown’ theatre highlight of the year is Theatrecorp’s staging of one of the greatest of all Jacobean tragedies - John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi - in the Black Box Theatre on Tuesday February 3. First staged around 1614, it is a dark and bloody drama about class, corruption, power, intrigue, murder, and madness.

Subtitle - a feast of European cinema

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

BOX OFFICE smashes from Russia, Germany, France, Italy, Finland, Denmark, and Sweden will be screened in a feast of continental cinema at the Town Hall Theatre from January 30 to February 31.

THEATREclub - shedding light on Heroin

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONE OF Dublin’s brightest and best-regarded young companies, THEATREclub is bringing its much-acclaimed, award-winning play, Heroin, to the Town Hall Theatre on Monday February 2 at 8pm.

Oh Boland to headline Strange Brew

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

THEY CONTINUE a proud tradition of Tuam indie, rock, and punk; they have just finished recording their debut album; and they are about to play their second headline show at the Róisín Dubh.

Album review: Panda Bear

Music Reviews Thu, Jan 22, 2015

ONCE UPON a time, January was the graveyard shift in the album release schedule, a time when contractual obligations, works deemed not good enough, and albums labels were not interested in, were unleashed into the post-Christmas commercial wasteland.

Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn returns to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

DUE TO popular demand, Aisteoirí an Spidéil’s production of Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn, which has played to full houses in An Taibhdhearc, returns for performances throughout the city and county.

Italian film for the Town Hall

Thu, Jan 22, 2015

A FILM which begins at the end, Human Capital, to be screened in Galway this weekend, approaches a tragic death from three very different perspectives.