Shakespeare’s Love’s Labour’s Lost @ The Eye
Thu, Feb 05, 2015
SHAKESPEARE’S ROMANTIC comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost, is being staged by Stratford-upon-Avon’s Royal Shakespeare Theatre, and will be broadcast live to Galway.
Read more ...The Bard gets the Druid treatment in 2015
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
DRUID THEATRE is internationally acclaimed for its stagings of classic Irish drama, but 2015 sees the companyturn its attention to England’s genius - William Shakespeare.
Read more ...Little John Nee’s The Galway Years
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
FOLLOWING THE sell-out success of The Galway Years in October, Little John Nee revives the show in the Town Hall Thetre studio from Monday February 2 to Saturday 7.
Read more ...The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
THE INTERNATIONAL ‘freakshow’ that is The Squidling Brothers Circus Sideshow comes to Galway for a night of mind bending comedy stunts that will leave you in stitches one minute and your jaw on the floor the next.
Read more ...Comedy theatre at Galway Community College
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
TOM STOPPARD’S The Real Inspector Hound and Peter Shaffer’s Black Comedy will be the inaugural plays that open the Galway Community College’s new auditorium on Wednesday February 4 and Thursday 5 at 8pm.
Read more ...Glenamaddy Players to stage Stolen Child
Thu, Jan 29, 2015
STOLEN CHILD, the story of a young woman’s journey to find her natural mother, will be staged by the Glenamaddy Players at Glenamaddy Town Hall Theatre in February.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...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.
Read more ...Small Size Day
Thu, Jan 22, 2015
TWO SHOWS will be staged in the Town Hall Theatre studio on Saturday January 31 as part of Small Size Day - a theatre initiative for young children.
Read more ...Beowulf: The Blockbuster
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
AN EARLY highlight of the Town Hall’s spring season comes around next week with Bryan Burroughs’ hugely acclaimed solo show Beowulf: The Blockbuster.
Read more ...Treasure Island on stage and live on screen
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
TREASURE ISLAND, Robert Louis Stevenson’s iconic story of murder, money, and mutiny is currently running in the National Theatre, London, in a new staging by Bryony Lavery.
Read more ...See The Merry Widow @ The Eye
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
THE MERRY Widow, the much loved Franz Lehár opera, first staged in 1905, is enjoying a new production by The Metropolitan Opera in New York, which Galway audiences can see.
Read more ...Core Theatre College spring courses
Thu, Jan 15, 2015
CORE THEATRE College has announced a new acting course which will run from March 3 to May 10, and enrolment is taking place now.
Read more ...Revenge, romance, and renaissance drama
Wed, Jan 14, 2015
DOOMED ROMANCE, violence, revenge, and misogyny erupt into force in The Duchess Of Malfi, one of the greatest tragedies of English renaissance drama, yet one that is rarely performed in Ireland.
Read more ...Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn sa Taibhdhearc
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
LÉIREOIDH AISTEOIRÍ an Spidéil Boicíní Bhóthar Kilburn sa Taibhdhearc ar an Satharn seo, 10 Eanáir. Is leagan Gaeilge a rinne Mícheál Ó Conghaile de The Kings of Kilburn High Road le Jimmy Murphy, an dráma seo a bhfuil an imirce agus torthaí na himirce mar chroíthéamaí ann.
Read more ...Plays and playwrights sought for theatre festival
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
THE GALWAY Theatre Festival is seeking applications for its 2015 festival which will take place from Friday May 1 to Saturday 9.
Read more ...Horrible Histories’ Groovy Greeks are coming to Galway
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
STAGECOACH DRAMA and theatre school spring term starts this Saturday with classes taking place in St Mary’s College. Registration for new pupils is also taking place.
Read more ...Galway Actor’s Workshop New Year courses
Thu, Jan 08, 2015
ACTORS LOOKING to improve their skills as well as those interested in taking up acting, should check out the new term from the Galway Actors Workshop.
Read more ...Theatre 2015 – Galway companies
Tue, Dec 30, 2014
DECEMBER 30, and as 2014 makes its valedictory bow, and takes its final curtain call, before tomorrow exiting the stage - to appreciative applause, naturally - while bright-eyed and bushy-tailed 2015 waits in the wings for its turn in the limelight.
Read more ...‘Panto has been fantastic. It’s so different from any other type of theatre I’ve done’
Tue, Dec 23, 2014
CINDERELLA, THIS year’s Renmore Pantomime, opens next week, and is sure to keep Galway audiences in festive humour throughout its two- week run from Monday December 29 to Sunday January 11.
Scriptwriter, and Panto Dame, Peter Kennedy has added a novel twist to the traditional story in that the Prince Charming Cinderella falls in love with is the son of King Donald Trumpet, who has recently bought a castle and golf links in Ireland. The Ugly Sisters try their hands at golf lessons, and the Wicked Queen Yvanna tries to throw a spanner in the works. She almost succeeds too, but for the intervention of Fairy Godmother and a Baron who looks a lot like Elvis.
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