Druid presents the world premiere of EPIPHANY
Wed, Jun 19, 2019
Druid presents the world premiere of EPIPHANY a new play by Brian Watkins.
Read more ...An operatic search for Rosemary Kennedy
Thu, Jun 13, 2019
THE NAMES John F Kennedy and Bobby Kennedy are iconic in American politics, and throughout the decades have continued to resonate, but there were other Kennedy children, not least of whom was Rosemary Kennedy.
Read more ...NUIG's Summer Drama Festival
Thu, Jun 13, 2019
LEADING GALWAY theatre practitioners, such as Little John Nee, Gerry Conneely, and Hot Potato Productions will take part in the new Summer Drama Festival which is taking place in The Cube at NUI Galway from July 20 to 27.
Read more ...A father's long, strange, shopping trip
Thu, Jun 13, 2019
PAT KINEVANE, described as "a truly remarkable performer" by The Arts Review, brings his new show, Before, set in Clery’s of Dublin, on the very day the iconic department store shut down for good, to the Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Get involved in Peter Pan - The Musical
Thu, Jun 13, 2019
PETER PAN - The Musical will be this year's summer production from Galway's award winning Twin Productions, which will run in the Town Hall theatre from August 22 to 26.
Read more ...A Hoochie Coochie night at The Dirty Circus
Thu, May 23, 2019
"I'M GONNA make you girls, lead me by my hand, then the world'll know, I'm the hoochie-coochie man!" So sang Muddy Waters on his legendary 1954 single, and some of that 'black cat bone' and mojo vibe will be at The Dirty Circus this weekend.
Read more ...Two world premieres feature in new Druid Season
Thu, May 16, 2019
DRUID THEATRE Company will stage the world premiers of two new plays - Epiphany by Brian Watkins and The Beacon by Nancy Harris - as well as presenting three new works for the Druid Debuts strand of the Galway International Arts Festival.
Read more ...MayFly to the...Movies
Thu, May 16, 2019
IF YOU have ever wanted to be involved a film, MayFly To The...Movies is your chance, with the audience invited to take part in a novel live cinema experience where actors and musicians provide real-time improvisation to a film on screen.
Read more ...Mikel Murfi - The Man In The Woman’s Shoes
Thu, May 09, 2019
THE MAN In The Woman's Shoes, Mikel Murfi's multi-award winning one man show, described as "a miniature masterpiece” by The Times, returns to Galway's Town Hall Theatre.
Read more ...Abbie Spallen's Pumpgirl returns to Galway
Thu, May 09, 2019
PUMPGIRL IS a turbo-charged race through diesel fumes and country music in the boggy border regions of County Armagh, and a journey into the unspoken thoughts and darkest desires of three damaged characters.
Read more ...Druid announce second Marie Mullen Theatre Bursary
Thu, May 09, 2019
DRUID THEATRE Company is seeking applications for its second Marie Mullen Bursary, which is open to female theatre artists working in Ireland in the fields of design, directing, and dramaturgy.
Read more ...When your freedom is in someone else's hands
Thu, May 02, 2019
IN A dystopian future - in art, is there ever another kind? - people must annually prove their life has worth or risk being burned alive. This is ARBITRATION (or a life worth living), and it is coming to the Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...The pressure to be Virtually Perfect
Thu, May 02, 2019
IN PREVIOUS generations the influence of the beauty industry on young women was limited to exposure to supermodels, advertisements, and celebrities. Today young people are constantly exposed to a stream of 'perfection' through digital and social media.
Read more ...Bringing Madness round to Our House
Thu, May 02, 2019
MADNESS, THE British ska-pop legends who lit up the British charts in the 1980s with 'Baggy Trousers', 'House Of Fun', 'It Must Be Love', and 'Our House', and who remain a much loved institution, will be celebrated in Galway this month.
Read more ...This Was Never Going To Be Normal
Thu, May 02, 2019
THE WORLD premiere of This Was Never Going To Be Normal, an original physical theatre sculptural installation, featuring sound, art, and voice, will take place at this month's Galway Theatre Festival.
Read more ...Gripping thriller Spotless comes to Town Hall
Theatre Reviews Thu, Apr 25, 2019
Emma Willis, from The Young Offenders, and Ciara O’Callaghan, from Fair City, co-star in Gary Duggan’s potent new play, Spotless, which comes to the Town Hall, for one performance only, on Thursday May 2.
Read more ...Ruby Wax, the monk, and the neuroscientist
Thu, Apr 25, 2019
RUBY WAX is well known as a comedian and actor, while in more recent years she has become a prominent mental health campaigner and lecturer, and she will be drawing on all aspects of her formidable talent in her latest show.
Read more ...Laurence Clark offers An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting
Thu, Apr 25, 2019
The Galway Theatre Festival commences next week and among the highlights is Laurence Clark’s comic show, An Irresponsible Father’s Guide to Parenting. It comes here, at the behest of NoRopes Theatre Company, for three performances at NUIG’s O’Donoghue Centre from May 8 to 11.
Read more ...Marty Moncrieff and the Teddy Bear Thief
Thu, Apr 25, 2019
PUPPETRY, LIVE music, an ensemble of narrators, and a teddy bear called Marty - all are part of Marty Moncrieff and the Teddy Bear Thief, the new family show from Beluga Theatre Company.
Read more ...When the harps were silenced in Ireland
Thu, Apr 25, 2019
THE HARP is one of the key symbols of Ireland, featured on the State's coat of arms, the Presidential standard, and Irish euro coins. It has been in use since mediaeval times, but was violently suppressed during the Cromwelian era.
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