Actors sought for play

Thu, Mar 26, 2015

NOROPES, A new Galway based theatre company, is seeking actors for its production of The Open Couple by Dario Fo and Franca Rame.

Compantas Lir return to An Taibhdhearc

Fri, Mar 20, 2015

Following a successful run in February, Carnmore/Claregalway group, Compántas Lir returns with their production of Shelagh Stephenson’s The Memory of Water. This will be performed in Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe from 25th-27th of March.

Palestinian dancers to perform at city dance festival

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

MEMBERS OF Ramallah’s El Funoun Dance Troupe, who work in refugee camps, villages, and cities throughout Palestine, will perform at the fourth Galway Dance Days festival.

Galway Actors Workshop beginner course

Thu, Mar 19, 2015

GALWAY ACTORS Workshop will hold another of its popular Introduction to Acting courses, starting March 23.

The classes take place on Mondays from 6.30pm to 8.30pm in the Anno Santo Hotel, Salthill, and run for 12 weeks. It is aimed at beginners and those who have not acted for some time. Classes will feature games, exercises, and improvisations focused on developing self confidence and stage confidence.

A St Patrick’s Dirty Circus

Thu, Mar 12, 2015

THE DIRTY CIRCUS returns for another night of burlesque, comedy, music, and cabaret, but a definite green tinge, at the Róisín Dubh on Monday March 16 at 9pm.

Galway Theatre Festival - now running in May

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

GALWAY THEATRE Festival has moved from being one of the last festivals in the city’s festival season, to one of its first - coming after Cúirt and the Galway Food Festival - as will now take place in May.

Druid Shakespeare details unveiled

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

DRUID THEATRE Company has announced details for one of its most ambitious undertakings, DruidShakespeare, a fitting project to mark the company’s 40th anniversary year.

Conversations on a Homecoming

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

TOM MURPHY’S Conversations on a Homecoming, will be staged by Kiltimagh’s Clann Machua Drama Group in the Kinvara Community Centre this Saturday.

Set in a pub in a small town in east Galway in the 1970s, Michael – recently returned from New York after a 10 year absence – has a reunion with old friends in the local pub. He was the one who got away to live the dream and now he is back – more or less out of the blue. Faced with the changes the years have wrought, the friends begin a process of self-discovery, eventually leading to many bitter truths and dark secrets emerging.

A young person’s view on teenage reality

Wed, Mar 11, 2015

LOTUS: A Play in Four Acts, written, produced, and directed by Rosa Jones, and featuring young Galway actors, will be performed in the Nuns Island Theatre this Saturday and Sunday at 8pm.

Written by 17-year-old Rosa, and featuring a cast aged between 17 and 19, it  deals with the growing pains, social pressures, loneliness, and anxiety felt by teenagers today. It is set one feverish night after a disillusioned 17-year-old Sam, played by Siofra Brogan, has her drink spiked.

Grimm delights with Galway Community Circus and Fidget Feet

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THE FOLK and fairy tales gathered by the Grimm brothers have entranced readers and audiences for more than 100 years and the recent movie adaptation of Broadway hit, Into The Woods, attests to the stories’ enduring appeal.

A theatrical side to the St Patrick’s Day Parade

Thu, Mar 05, 2015

THERE WILL be a strong theatrical feel to this year’s Galway City St Patrick’s Day Parade, with theatre performers, costumes designers, and community groups involved in the preparations.

An Taibhdhearc to remember Máire Stafford

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

ON FRIDAY March 6 at 8pm, An Taibhdhearc will stage Oiche Mháire Stafford, an all-star commemorative evening in honour of the late Máire Stafford, who, for more than 60 years was involved with the theatre as an actor, director, translator, costume designer, and lyricist, fully earning her soubriquet ‘Queen of An Taibhdhearc’.

Joe Prop’s rugby dreams

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

FORGET THE Six Nations or the Rugby World Cup, the biggest rugby event of 2015 is coming to Moycullen, in Joe Prop, a play about a schoolboy whose life revolves around the sport.

NUIG One Act Play series

Thu, Feb 26, 2015

THE NUI Galway Jerome Hynes One Act Play series, part of NUIG Theatre Week, will see eight new plays performed tomorrow from 6pm in the Cube Theatre, Áras na Mac Léinn.

Fregoli unveil Mary, Mary, Mary

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

FREGOLI THEATRE Company gets 2015 off to a strong start next week at the Town Hall Theatre studio with the premiere of artistic director Maria Tivnan’s Mary, Mary, Mary.

Rediscovering Maud Gonne

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE LIFE, times, and personality of Maud Gonne will be vividly evoked in a new stage presentation by local theatre-makers Caroline Lynch and Sarah O’Toole, of Mephisto and Anam Theatre companies respectively. The show, which could be described as a dramatised lecture, takes place on Thursday February 26 at 1pm in NUI Galway’s Cube Theatre and admission is free.

NUI Galway Theatre Week 2015

Thu, Feb 19, 2015

THE NUI Galway Theatre Week 2015 runs form Monday February 23 to Friday 27, showcasing student, college society, and alumni talent through theatre, literature, and film.

Compántas Lir bring The Memory of Water to An Taibhdhearc

Thu, Feb 12, 2015

CARNMORE/CLAREGALWAY group, Compántas Lir grace the stage of Taibhdhearc na Gaillimhe this month with its production of Shelagh Stephenson’s award-winning comedy, The Memory of Water. Galway audiences will have two opportunities to see this production, Sunday February 22 and again in March, FROM Wednesday 25-Friday 27.

Stockings, sex, and the Nazi threat

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

CABARET, THE classic musical based on Christopher Isherwood’s Goodbye to Berlin, and immortalised on screen in the 1973 film starring Liza Minelli, will be staged by NUIG’s Galway University Musical Society in the Black Box Theatre from Tuesday February 10 to Saturday 14 at 8pm.

The Dirty Circus Dirty Love Weekend party

Thu, Feb 05, 2015

THE DIRTY Circus rolls into the Róisín Dubh on Friday February 13 at 9pm for its Valentine’s party of burlesque, cabaret, and all things ‘naughty but nice’.

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