Re-live Father Ted at the Laughter Lounge
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
FATHER TED ran from 1995 to 1998 but more than a decade after both the show ended and the tragically early passing of the great Dermot Morgan, it still holds a vice like grip on the Irish psyche.
Is it ironic or apt that Father Ted has become almost a religion among so many Irish people? Either way Galway will get to celebrate Father Ted and enjoy some of the comedians who appeared on that legendary show with a series of events for Tedfest 09.
Read more ...Krapp’s Last Tape returns to Town Hall Theatre Studio
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
Samuel Beckett’s Krapp's Last Tape returns to the Town Hall Theatre Studio by popular demand following a sell-out run last year. The acclaimed production will be performed from Tuesday March 3 to Saturday March 7 at 8.30pm and on Friday March 6 in a special late evening performance at 10.30pm.
Read more ...The Importance of Being Earnest at Nuns Island Theatre
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
THE IMPORTANCE Of Being Earnest is Oscar Wilde’s most celebrated and best loved play. Galway will get to see this classic of mistaken identity when it is staged here next week.
Read more ...Karen Underwood brings hit Nina Simone show to Town Hall
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
The spellbinding music of Nina Simone is thrillingly recreated in American singer Karen Underwood’s hit solo show The Nina in Me which comes to the Town Hall for one night only next Thursday, March 5.
Read more ...Turn the magic on with Messiah J & The Expert
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
MESSIAH J & The Expert are on a roll at the moment. Their second album From The Word Go has been nominated for a Choice and Meteor award and they are about to undertake an Irish tour.
Read more ...Christy Moore approved songwriter to play The Crane
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
“EVERY NOW and again I encounter a singer who gives me a glimmer of hope. Jim Page carries that light.”
Read more ...Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble’s Two-Way Split
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
TWO-WAY Split, the latest production from the Cathy Sharp Dance Ensemble, will be performed in the Town Hall Theatre on Wednesday at 8pm.
Read more ...Aideen Barry’s adventures in space
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
IN 2007 the Galway based artist Aideen Barry visited NASA, she was able to see the new technologies it is developing, and experience zero-gravity.
Read more ...Annual Junior Orchestra Festival in Gort
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
THE SECOND Annual Junior Orchestra Festival will take place in the Lady Gregory Hotel, Gort, on Sunday at 3pm.
Read more ...Celebrate International Women’s Day with Caramel
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
CARAMEL, THE award winning Lebanese film will be screened in NUI, Galway’s O’Flaherty Theatre on Wednesday at 8pm to celebrate International Women’s Day.
Read more ...Éigse an Spidéil 2009
Thu, Feb 26, 2009
ÉIGSE AN Spidéil 2009, the annual festival of traditional music, dance, sean-nós singing, art, and poetry, takes place from Thursday March 5 to Wednesday 11.
The festival, which is part of Seachtain na Gaeilge, begins at 8pm in the Park Lodge Hotel with an arts show by students in the traditional arts course at NUI, Galway. There will also be music and song, finishing with a session in Hughes Pub in the village.
Read more ...Ibsen classic Enemy Of The People gets innovative new Galway production
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
ONE OF Galway’s brightest young theatre companies, Moonfish, have teamed up with An Taibhdhearc to present a new staging of Namhaid don Phobal - an Irish-language version of Henrik Ibsen’s An Enemy Of The People. The production will have English subtitles.
Read more ...Imelda May takes the liberty of following her own path
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
WHEN OTHER girls her age were listening to Wham, A-Ha, and Bros, Imelda May was extolling the virtues of Elvis, Eddie Cochrane, and Gene Vincent.
Read more ...The Revellions to bring their sixties sound to Bar903
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
THE REVELLIONS are inspired by 1960s rock and make garage rock that sounds fresh and original. What’s more they are coming to Galway this weekend.
Read more ...Conscience Of The King in Town Hall studio
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
VERSAILLES 1670. Louis XIV, King of France, has fallen madly in love with Madame de Montespan. He discovers, to his horror, that she has betrayed him and everything he stands for.
Read more ...John O’Conor to play Town Hall
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
THE GREAT Irish pianist John O’Conor will play the Town Hall Theatre as part of Adventures in Music’s fifth year anniversary celebration.
Read more ...KATS to stage Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
THE PILLOWMAN, by the award-winning dramatist and Golden Glode and BAFTA winning screenwriter Martin McDonagh, will be performed in Galway next week.
Read more ...Dr Suess’ characters in Athenry
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
THE CAT In The Hat, Horton the Elephant, Mayzie LaBird, and Yertle the Turtle are in Athenry for Seussical The Musical.
Read more ...Some country-blues with Charlie Parr
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
CHARLIE PARR is, for some, the alternative Seasick Steve, the man for whom Steve is, in a sense, making the paths straight.
Read more ...See ‘Nashville’s best kept secret’
Thu, Feb 19, 2009
THE MUSIC journalist and author Vic Garbarini has described American songwriter and guitarist Dana Cooper as “one of Nashville’s best kept secrets”.
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