Cinema Review - Fright Night

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

WITH THE original 1985 film being so iconic and attracting a huge cult following it was a big task to produce a film that would live up to the name of Fright Night, and although there have been mixed reactions, the directing and of course the casting of yummy Colin Farrell helped to make a remake which is a great watch and I will certainly be getting the DVD when it is released.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.

Late Night Gimp Fight @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

LATE NIGHT Gimp Fight will bring their unapologetically English style of saucy humour, outrageous silliness, and hilarious sketches and routines to the Róisín Dubh next Wednesday at 8.30pm.

The book auction

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

FOR SOME unknown reason, I have only ever attended two book auctions and did not bid at either, so when an important customer asked me over a fortnight ago to attend one in Kells and to bid on his behalf I felt as though I was going out on my first date. The prospect was as fascinating as it was terrifying.

Blues, wit and haiku

Thu, Sep 08, 2011

THERE ARE those who say there are too many women poets nowadays. For these reactionary critics all was well in the garden of poetry until it was ruined by feminism and the advent of poetry workshops, which have conspired together to encourage many more women to write poetry. And most of it, shock horror, does not even rhyme.

The Wilde family saga

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

THE STORY of Oscar Wilde and his extraordinary family is a remarkable one. Oscar’s sensational triumphs and terrible downfall are incredibly moving but his parents, the brilliant Sir William Wilde and the flamboyant Lady Jane Wilde, also led amazing lives and experienced triumph and tragedy.

Keegan Theatre and Town Hall combine for The Crucible

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

ARTHUR MILLER’S classic parable of mass hysteria, The Crucible, will be presented by the Keegan Theatre Company from Washington DC at the Town Hall Theatre this month.

Emmet O’Malley to launch debut album @ Monroe’s

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

EMMET O’MALLEY, the Galway based singer-songwriter, will launch his debut album Playtime, with a gig in Monroe's Backstage Bar on Friday September 9.

Theatre review: Faith Healer

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

THE WAY in which memory shapes our identities and the way in which we in turn shape our memories, selecting this detail and altering that, have been recurrent themes in the work of Brian Friel and nowhere more so than in his great play Faith Healer, currently running at the Town Hall.

The struggle of two sisters

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

DOLORES, A one-act play by American playwright Edward Allan Baker will run at the Nuns’ Island Theatre from Wednesday September 7 to Saturday 10.

Renmore Pantomine holding auditions for Aladdin

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

THE RENMORE Pantomime is this year doing the popular show Aladdin in the Town Hall Theatre, Galway, from December 30 to January 15.

Olaf Tyaransen for Electric Picnic

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

GALWAY WRITER and journalist Olaf Tyaransen will be performing and interviewing live at Electric Picnic in Stradbally this weekend.

Truewest Theatre call for auditions

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

TRUEWEST THEATRE is looking for men in their forties and fifties for its next production taking place in October and November.

Garvey’s comedy open mic night

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

GET UP, Stand up, the weekly stand up comedy open mic night at Garvey’s Hotel and Bar, Eyre Square, takes place tonight from 10pm.

The Driftwood Manor @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

PSYCHEDELIC FOLK band The Driftwood Manor will perform songs from their new album The Same Figure (Leaving) upstairs in the Róisín Dubh on Thursday September 8 at 9pm.

Roots/Americana gig @ Monroe’s Live

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

MONROE’S LIVE will host a night of roots rock and Americana this Sunday when singer-songwriters Tony McLoughlin and Ben Reel take to the stage.

Student season at Carbon Nightclub

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

TODAY IS September 1 and Galway is about to become a student city once again and Carbon nightclub on Eglinton Street has a host of great nights and events lined up.

Strange Brew @ Róisín Dubh

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

IRISH/CANADIAN band Nightbox and Dublin/US band Favourite Sons play Strange Brew at the Róisín Dubh tonight from 10pm.

Rita Ann Higgins to launch new poetry collection

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

RITA ANN Higgins’s latest collection of poetry, entitled Ireland Is Changing Mother, will be launched in Galway on Friday September 16.

Chatham Saxophone Quartet free debut concert

Thu, Sep 01, 2011

THE CHATHAM Saxophone Quartet will perform its debut Galway concert in the Town Hall Theatre Studio on Tuesday September 6 at 1.10pm.

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