Rehearsals in full swing for Renmore Panto

Thu, Nov 10, 2016

REHEARSALS ARE in full swing for Renmore's 38th annual pantomime, Little Red Riding Hood, which will run at the Town Hall Theatre from December 30 to January 15 for a total of 21 performances.

Theatre review: The Playboy of the Western World - the musical

Wed, Nov 09, 2016

THE PLAYBOY of the Western World has had countless outings and re-imaginings since its 1905 premiere, but few as rollicking and royally entertaining as Justin McCarthy and Diarmuid De Faoite’s musical version running in the Town Hall Theatre until Saturday.

'The Bonnie and Clyde of mythological Ireland'

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

GALWAY'S FÍBÍN Theatre Company will premiere Tóraíocht, its new version of the epic tale, The Pursuit of Diarmuid and Gráinne - written by Philip Doherty and directed by renowned actor and director Mikel Murfi - next week at the Black Box Theatre.

Sail to Byzantium in Bastard Amber

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

INSPIRED BY the poet WB Yeats and the artist Patrick Scott, Bastard Amber, a dance production by the acclaimed Liz Roche Company, makes its Galway debut at the Town Hall Theatre next week.

Acting course for beginners

Thu, Nov 03, 2016

ACTING 101, a new, six-week course from the Galway Actors Workshop, teaching the basics of acting to beginners in a relaxed, enjoyable, way, starts next month.

Cinder & The Ellas – Fidget Feet give fairytale a fresh spin

Thu, Oct 27, 2016

THE FAMILIAR story of Cinderella gets a high-flying makeover from Fidget Feet in its thrilling new show - Cinder & The Ellas - which will be performed in the Blackl Box Theatre on Sunday November 6 at 8pm.

Amigo Productions to fly over the cuckoo’s nest

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

NEW GALWAY community theatre company Amigo Productions makes its bow next month with Ken Kesey’s classic One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest. The play runs at An Taibhdhearc in November, with all proceeds going to Pieta House West.

Luck Just Kissed You Hello returns

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

LUCK JUST Kissed You Hello, Amy Conroy's powerful exploration of gender and sexual identity, and a hit at the 2015 Galway International Arts Festival, returns to Galway as part of a new national tour.

The adventures of two little shapes

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

THE SHAPE Of Things, Branar Teatar do Pháistí and Starcatchers' new show for those aged from six months to two years has its Irish premiere at the 2016 Babaró International Children's Festival.

Carnevil - enter if you dare...

Thu, Oct 20, 2016

ARE YOU feeling brave? Are you feeling nervous? Are you looking for something to test the limits of your courage, and are you prepared to look deep into the abyss? Are you prepared for the abyss to…look back?

Gerry Conneely's Shakespeare in Connemara

Thu, Oct 13, 2016

OLDER READERS will remember those halcyon days in the 1990s when lunchtime theatre was part of daily life in Galway. It was part of the streetscape itself as merry mischief-makers like The Flying Pigs and The Mad Susans took to the thoroughfares to coax the unwary into the back of The King’s Head.

Return of The Pillowman

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

DECADENT THEATRE Company’s acclaimed production of Martin McDonagh’s The Pillowman returns to the Town Hall Theatre in a welcome revival that launches a second national tour for the play.

Spanking good fun at The Dirty Circus

Thu, Oct 06, 2016

IT'S NAUGHTY but nice, sexy and saucy, tasteful rather than filthy and depraved. It is Galway burlesque and cabaret night The Dirty Circus, and it kickstarts this year's Vodafone Comedy Carnival Galway.

Comedy with a female perspective marks debut of Cáca Dána

Thu, Sep 29, 2016

A NEW Galway theatre company, Cáca Dána, takes a bow in the Town Hall studio next month with All The World’s A Cage, an original one-act comedy, with a distinctly female perspective, devised and written by the company.

Theatre review: Disco Pigs (Town Hall)

Tue, Sep 27, 2016

TWENTY YEARS to the day after its premiere, Enda Walsh’s iconic play Disco Pigs arrived at the Town Hall this week in a new production jointly staged by Reading Rep and Nick Thompson Productions from London. The show was helmed by Cathal Cleary, who was formerly based in Galway, and is now making his way successfully as an up and coming director in London.

'Life is a series of aftershocks'

Thu, Sep 22, 2016

WINNER OF a ‘Lustrum’ Award at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Orla Murphy’s acclaimed play, Remember To Breathe, comes to the Town Hall Theatre next week in a staging by Murphy’s own Figure 8 Productions.

Druid's The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Theatre Reviews Wed, Sep 21, 2016

LAST WEEK, Druid’s production of Helen and I concluded with the sound of rain pouring down outside the kitchen where the play’s action takes place. The Beauty Queen of Leenane opens with the same sound but where the rain in Helen and I signified release, in Beauty Queen it’s symptomatic of misery and confinement.

Disco Pigs - Enda Walsh's debut play turns 20

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

WHILE NEXT week sees Druid open its 20th anniversary revival of The Beauty Queen of Leenane, 1996 also saw the premiere of another iconic Irish play which launched a stellar writing career; Enda Walsh’s Disco Pigs.

Honor Heffernan - The Whistling Girl

Thu, Sep 15, 2016

DOROTHY PARKER was famed for her wit, which could be as brilliant as it was nasty, but it is often forgotten that she was a civil rights activist, a supporter of Martin Luther King, and chronicler of the Spanish Civil War.